At least 100,000 Australians, including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, marched for Gaza across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the pouring rain at a demonstration on Sunday. It wasn’t that long ago when I sincerely wondered if we’d ever see Assange’s face again, let alone in public, let…
A brief primer on why the American empire exists, how it works, and Europe’s place in it. Whenever I talk about things like tariffs, Trump supporters appear in my comments to tell me that Europe has gotten a free ride for long enough and that it is time we…
Cyber attacks—usually involving ransomware—are making the news almost every day, and experts say artificial intelligence (AI) is being deployed to help the attackers find their targets more quickly. Ransomware is a type of malicious software—or malware—that prevents a user from accessing their computer files, systems, or networks and demands they pay…
Was Timothy McVeigh groomed by the FBI in the same way it groomed Jerry Drake Varnell to participate in a plot to blow up the BancFirst building in Oklahoma City? Tucker Carlson just interviewed investigative journalist Margaret Roberts about her exhaustive investigation of the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.
An old English friend in her early forties called me a few days ago and reported that, back in June, a painful mass was detected in her abdomen. Based on scans, her doctors at a London hospital suspect cancer. On the bright side, they believe that performing an excisional…
“Well, that’s very stylish.” So said tough silver-screen cop Dirty Harry Callahan, in the 1976 film The Enforcer, reacting to a feminist initiative. Its goal was, a woke female official informed, to “broaden the areas of participation for women in the police force.” This was, of course, art imitating life,…
A recent article on Jasmine Crockett in The Atlantic reveals that she sees representing the American people as a mere side hustle. hen Democratic firebrand Jasmine Crockett agreed to be profiled by The Atlantic, she probably expected just another boot-licking puff piece that would add to her…
Sunny Hostin claims Stephen Colbert’s show cancellation is an instance of the “dismantling of our democracy.” An X commentator wrote, “Democracy is when Colbert is on television.” Sunny must have fallen off Venus and is unused to Earth gravity—or she’s just a host on The View. She epitomizes the overreaction that…
Although I’m a great admirer of the Jewish New Yorker Larry Auster (1949-2013), I’m glad that he seems never to have had any children. Why am I glad? Because of something called reversion to the mean. By Jewish standards, Auster was unusually sympathetic to White gentiles and unusually honest about non-White…
Like many social media users, the conservative writer and entrepreneur C.Jay Engel uses his short bio on X to list a few phrases describing himself and his background: “Son of the California Sierras”; “Classical Protestant”; and, in a nod to his proudly reactionary politics, “Counter-Revolutionary.” But the first descriptor in…
