How many intelligence chiefs fit in the back of a Volkswagen? I arrived in Washington for an event last night, trying to finish the story about former CIA official Susan Miller’s disputed biography on my phone, when new information dropped from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s office. Before…
Major outlets warn about “online misogyny” while pushing unhinged man-hate. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced earlier this year that the Netflix series Adolescence would be shown in schools throughout the UK. The show imaginatively depicts a real-life murder as the result of online misogyny. (Reality had no connection to this fictional…
In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke lamented that “the age of chivalry is gone”: That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank…
The fourth plenary session of the Communist Party of China has been scheduled by the Politburo for October (no precise data announced; probably four days during the second half of October). That’s when Beijing will be deliberating the lineaments of its next five-year plan. The plenum should be attended…
Remember when beautiful people were the standard in American marketing? Remember when advertising focused on demographics according to their common interests and their percentage of the general population? It wasn’t all that long ago, but the woke cult has been working hard over the years to “deconstruct” cultural norms,…
Ozzy Osbourne’s working-class roots were central to the invention of heavy metal. But the world that birthed Black Sabbath is gone — and the conditions created by Britain’s postwar welfare state are long out of reach for today’s musicians. In the 2020s, a cursory search about the latest hot…
“The risk of catastrophe will be very high. The nation could erupt into insurrection or civil violence, crack up geographically, or succumb to authoritarian rule. If there is a war, it is likely to be one of maximum risk and effort – in other words, a total war. Every…
Asked a few weeks ago why Alejandro Mayorkas, the former secretary of Homeland Security, hadn’t been arrested yet, President Trump said, “I’ll take a look at that one because what he did is beyond incompetence.” Apparently, some rash individuals have drawn a connection between Mayorkas’ vast human trafficking operation,…
Right now, getting a ceasefire matters more than talk of Palestinian statehood. Against the backdrop of the ghastly scenes of starvation in Gaza, this week’s UN conference on reinvigorating a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict is out of step with reality. Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza and…
Black teens beat white bystanders in downtown Cincinnati as police, media, and public figures stay silent—revealing a dangerous double standard on racial violence. ecently, a large group of black youths began pummeling several white adults in downtown Cincinnati. The original altercation apparently broke out between a black and white…
