The pattern is clear. Georgetown University refuses to sanction Professor Christine Fair for one of the most egregiously vile and violent comments I’ve ever seen on Twitter, whereas Catholic University comes down hard on Dean Rainford for merely stating a … Continue reading →
[UPDATES below] NOON: So far I have not been able to bring myself to watch, although I probably will watch some of it later. That may surprise you, but it’s for several reasons. The first is that I always am … Continue reading →
A video has emerged that tells us what we already knew—that the heads of Google follow the ethos of the left: Someone leaked to Breitbart an hour-long video of an “all hands” Google meeting that was held just after the … Continue reading →
I don’t know about you, but this news gives me a cold chill: Some international travelers can leave their boarding passes and passports in their pockets when flying out of Dulles International Airport thanks to a new facial recognition boarding … Continue reading →
I’ve now watched a great many #WalkAway videos at YouTube. If you’re not familiar with #WalkAway, it’s a movement of people attesting to their decision to walk away from the Democratic Party and/or voting consistently liberal. That doesn’t necessarily make … Continue reading →
Hungary’s Viktor Orban is continually referred to as “far right.” And perhaps he is. For example, I saw this article describing how Orban has decided to ban gender studies programs in the two universities in Hungary that have offered them … Continue reading →
I’m a lover of poetry, as you can probably tell from the number of posts listed in that category on my right sidebar (as I write this, it’s 161). But the poetry of the last twenty or thirty or even … Continue reading →
Just read it.
Continue reading →I’ve never read anything by Bret Easton Ellis before. One reason is that I don’t like fiction all that much unless it’s fabulous, and I definitely don’t like violent fiction, which by all accounts American Psycho (Ellis’s most popular novel) … Continue reading →
As Glenn Reynolds writes: Note that I say “free speech” and not “First Amendment.” The First Amendment only limits government, but “free speech” is — or at least until very recently was — a broader social value in favor of … Continue reading →
Whatever the reasons, it’s dangerous for governments to confiscate the land of citizens without compensation, as the leading party of South Africa is now poised to do. Their reasons reflect the complex history of South Africa, a place where black … Continue reading →
I have sometimes thought that it was a very good thing that the Nazis, despite all their Germanic thoroughness, were still in the relative dark ages of technology. I’m not just talking about weaponry. I’m talking about keeping track of … Continue reading →