I think of yesterday’s election as a small skirmish, a battle in a long long war. And yes, that’s a metaphor. But I think it’s an apt one. During the Obama years the right was worried about a lot of … Continue reading →
Not exactly, but sort of: …[T]he American electorate has separated into two increasingly homogenous political tribes. As Lilliana Mason points out in Uncivil Agreement, “partisanship can now be thought of as a mega-identity.” The Republican mega-identity is religious, middle-class, rural, … Continue reading →
There are quite a few interesting things about this incident. The first is that there are still Republican students and a Republican Club at Stanford these days. The second is that involves a male college student filing assault charges against … Continue reading →
Now that Judge Brett Kavanaugh is Justice Brett Kavanaugh, there’s a lot of analysis of going on about the nature of the process we actually witnessed. While the battle was still ongoing, Christine Ford was treated by the GOP as … Continue reading →
You hear it everywhere right now: the Republican Party is united as never before. Mitch McConnell was pretty witty about it: “I want to thank the mob because they’ve done the one thing we were having trouble doing, which was … Continue reading →
I’m not going to bother to fisk this NY TImes op-ed by Alexis Grenell because Ann Althouse has already done it very well in this post. Instead, I want to concentrate on one phrase in one sentence of Grenell’s leftist, … Continue reading →
Canada’s Quebec seems to be joining the many places around the western world that are swinging towards the right in response to the left’s immigration policies: The business-friendly CAQ is expected to win a majority of seats in Canada’s second … Continue reading →
Yiddish is a language that has a lot of words that express personality qualities and types, particularly loser types or mean types or conniving types. These words often combine humor with rueful sarcasm and cynical realism about the vagaries of … Continue reading →
Yesterday I put up a short clip of Clarence Thomas excoriating the Senate Democrats at his 1991 hearing. I want to highlight it now: Thomas speaks with great eloquence, but it’s his affect that is especially arresting. You can feel … Continue reading →
This evening I wrote a post about the second Kavanaugh accuser. I want to add a few more thoughts, but I decided to use a separate post. Not only was it inevitable that the left would find someone else to … Continue reading →
For the “believe the women; Kavanaugh is guilty as the day is long” crowd on the left, there remain the inconvenient accusers. These accusers are female, too, like Kavanaugh’s. In nearly all instances, their stories of sexual wrongdoing on the … Continue reading →
If Kavanaugh and Ford is the second act, Thomas and Hill was the first. Please don’t quibble with me. I know that Bork preceded that. But I’m talking about sexual allegations mounted against a SCOTUS nominee after the initial hearings, … Continue reading →