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Godzilla then and now

Godzilla has terrorized the Land of the Rising Sun for decades. Known as a kaiju (monster) in Japan, and King of the Monsters in the United States, Godzilla’s fearsome roar and atomic breath is a child’s nightmare come to life. It’s fought with and against other gigantic creatures. It’s struck fear in the hearts of […]

Knickknack diaspora

Until it closed last year, Monarch Novelties was the only souvenir store in Washington, D.C., that sold campaign memorabilia exclusive to the three presidential elections of the 1960s. The store was an oddity, a decaying building on 14th Street that, for more than 80 years, trafficked in eccentricities: not just Kennedy– and Nixon-era nostalgia but […]

The hardcore paradox

Recently, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has argued that during the Biden years, Army basic training became too soft and lost some of its hardcore edge. He wants basic training to toughen up. Which brings us to a phenomenon in the Army I’ll call the Hardcore Paradox: Soldiers enjoy comfort and dislike pain, stress, and […]

Review of ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ by Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy dedicated her debut novel, The God of Small Things, to two people who, it was safe to assume, were her nearest and dearest: “For Mary Roy who grew me up,” she wrote, “Who loved me enough to let me go.” The other dedicatee was more cryptically designated: “For LKC, who, like me, survived.”  […]

Papering over ‘The Office’

“Nobody wants this!” Oscar Martinez of The Office insists to the documentary camera crew on the hunt for what became of the Dunder-Mifflin crew 12 years after the long-running program went off the air. “Don’t you guys have enough after nine years?” Evidently, no, Oscar. We need more. Much more. The Paper, which began streaming […]

FBI releases footage of suspected shooter in Kirk shooting

Authorities have released footage of the suspected shooter in the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. In the video, shown during a Thursday night press conference, the suspected shooter runs across a roof, comes down the side of a building, makes his way through a parking lot and heads towards a busy street.  When coming...

Vice President JD Vance escorts Charlie Kirk’s casket before flight on Air Force Two from Utah to Arizona

Escorted across the tarmac by a military pallbearer detail and Vice President JD Vance, Charlie Kirk’s casket traveled aboard Air Force Two from Utah to Arizona.

Even as they condemn it, the left gaslights us about Charlie Kirk’s death

Even in their denunciations of Charlie Kirk's murder, the left is gaslighting us: The vast majority of the political violence in this country is...

Pity poor Zohran Mamdani, who’s never HAD to answer real questions

Zohran Mamdani’s sheltered life — not just his privileged upbringing, but his whole adult "career" — is on display whenever someone asks him a...

Charlie Kirk’s death must remind us, and those with despicable responses to it, that life is not a computer game

Charlie Kirk died doing what he did best — talking with, debating and encouraging his fellow Americans.

Kamala Harris stumbles onto the truth: She’s a whiny, blame-shifting liar

Kamala Harris in her new book seeks plaudits for her loyalty to Joe Biden, while blaming him for her own shortcomings — and remains...

There’s Only One Way Back from the Brink

On the danger of ‘they.’

The Guillotine of Goodness

The modern progressive left is drunk on its own virtue.

Online liberal social media users celebrate Charlie Kirk’s assassination

Liberal commentators online took to their social media platforms upon hearing about the assassination of conservative activist and Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk.

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