While the Village People, a disco group famously associated with gay culture, were performing with President Donald Trump over inauguration weekend, progressives were busy freaking out about his reign of terror against LGBT rights. On Day One, it began. That is, if, by reign of terror, you mean recognition of basic biological reality. “There are […]
It may have taken the might of federal lawsuits, but the supposed gem of American universities has finally decided that antisemitism might just be a bad thing to allow on campus. In a settlement of two federal lawsuits, Harvard University agreed to change its policies to better prevent antisemitic harassment on campus. That includes a […]
It may be hyperbole to claim that podcasts determined the winner of the 2024 election, but few observers who paid attention to how aggressively both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance used the medium deny it changed votes, particularly among young men, who overwhelmingly broke for Trump. But for as much is said […]
In December 2020, then-President-elect Joe Biden was very concerned about what outgoing President Donald Trump would do in his final days in office. Specifically, as he told CNN’s Jake Tapper at the time, Biden was worried that Trump would use the pardoning power to insulate himself, his family, and his associates from any comeuppance for […]
Mischa Berlinski’s first two books were richly inventive affairs, yet within their fictionality could be discerned the impress of facts — sights seen, stories acquired, local color absorbed. Fieldwork, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award, was narrated by an American reporter named Mischa Berlinski, who drew on his creator’s time working in Thailand […]
When Joe Biden shockingly, and yet somehow unsurprisingly, pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, in December 2024, many called for the outgoing president’s impeachment. Writer Jonah Goldberg contended, for instance, that if that welcome development were to come, “Congress would assert its primacy, and send a clear signal that the sort of corrupt self-dealing that both […]
The oddest thing is happening in Britain: Donald Trump is becoming popular. The man was almost universally abhorred during his first term. Leftists loathed him, naturally. But so did most rightists, partly for his character and partly for his policies, above all his soft spot for Vladimir Putin, his ambivalence about NATO, and his hankering […]
For a long time, I was an Olympic fencer. Then, I became a Michelin-star chef. No one asked me how I managed to julienne my vegetables while wearing an epée glove or if, given my busy schedule, I ever picked up the wrong weapon and impaled my opponent with a carrot. I was a swordsman by day […]
There’s a quote that’s been flying around the internet since President Donald Trump was reelected: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” Attributed to Sinclair Lewis, it’s usually posted by people who don’t much like the flag or the cross, and so they would love to […]
President Trump will venture into deep-blue California on Friday for a closely-watched visit that could determine disaster aid for the state and how Trump will work with Democratic governors throughout his four years in office. Trump’s trip to fire-ravaged Los Angeles comes after he traded barbs with California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). The president will...