For my entire conscious life, being a fan of the team known sequentially as the Redskins, the Washington Football Team, or the Commanders was cosmic punishment. Being a supporter of this team meant meditating on what communal sin or inner flaw one’s investment of time and emotion was paying for. Each failed season raised the […]
Every time I open X, I’m greeted by a troth of gender war slop. Every day, it’s the same reheated arguments about “body count,” also known as the number of sexual partners, or whether a coffee shop is an appropriate first date. Sometimes, if I’m especially lucky, someone will blame the world’s declining birth rate […]
At age 69, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has an impressive, if mixed, résumé. But when you ask him what his biggest regret is, it’s not buddying up with Jeffrey Epstein or microchipping the populace with the COVID-19 vaccine (kidding!). His biggest failure, he told the Times last week, is his divorce. “That was the […]
Something strange is happening in American media entertainment: Patriotism appears increasingly back in vogue. Recent years have seen the soaring box office success of Top Gun: Maverick (another movie is in the works) and streaming conquest of Amazon‘s violent but unashamedly patriotic series Reacher. But new patriotic additions hint that this isn’t just a blip […]
Where were the waterworks during the Obama administration, when he promised: "If you plan to enter the US illegally, your chances of getting caught and...
Within hours of Wednesday night’s horrific midair collision at Reagan National Airport, some Democrats were blaming President Trump’s proposed budget cuts and workforce executive...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen dropped bombshells on the popular Joe Rogan Experience about political persecution from financial regulators during the Biden years, spotlighting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a locus of weaponized financial regulation. Zuckerberg said the CFPB was “looking into us” even though “we’re not a bank.” He speculated that the […]
