[BUMPED UP: Scroll down for newer posts.] Nineteen years is a long time. And yet sometimes September 11, 2001 seems like a century ago. I date that day as the day I woke up politically, although I didn’t realize it … Continue reading →
Jonathan Turley has this to say on the subject: “Silence is violence” has everything that you want in a slogan: Alliteration. Brevity. Simplicity. It also can be chilling for some in the academic and free-speech communities. On one level, it … Continue reading →
Gerard Vanderleun reminds us of how relevant Milan Kundera remains. Here’s the quote from my favorite work of Kundera’s, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: At a time when history still made its way slowly, the few events were easily … Continue reading →
Earlier today I wrote about Jacob Blake and the changing story about him, and now I’m going to update the news on Kyle Rittenhouse. You know, Rittenhouse – that “white supremacist” 17-year-old who crossed state lines to roam around Kenosha … Continue reading →
[Part I can be found here. A Part III is also planned.] Yoram Hazony, author of this Quillette essay on “The Challenge of Marxism,” has a great deal to say about liberalism. He writes [emphasis mine]: Enlightenment liberalism is a … Continue reading →
Knowingly. But after all, those same leaders – mayors and city council members – were chosen to check off certain identity boxes, as well as for their leftist ideology. DAs were chosen in an Orwellian manner: for their propensity to … Continue reading →
This is from commenter “Erisguy”: When liberty dies in the hearts of a people, no court, no law, no constitution can save it. And by now a majority of “Americans”…wish only [for] their side to rule unhindered by law, evidence, … Continue reading →
I think the above has been clear for a long time. I have never been part of Twitter, although if memory serves I initially set up an account. But as soon as I checked out the site, I realized it … Continue reading →
Consistently awful, that is.
Continue reading →[Hat tip: commenter “Barry Meislin.”] This new piece by Alan Dershowitz is interesting to me for many reasons, not the least because he demonstrates his usual sense and yet continues to find it difficult to surrender his allegiance to the … Continue reading →
Government malfeasance. Please read the whole thing.
Continue reading →In this essay, Michelle Malkin uses a term I had never heard before but which I think fits what’s happening in the US today: It’s not “socialism” or “communism” under which we suffer. Our dangerously chaotic, selectively oppressive predicament is … Continue reading →