California is not exactly a shining beacon of how the criminal justice system should operate. Believe it or not, the state can always come up with ways to make things worse. The California legislature is pushing ahead with a bill that would allow cities to fine businesses up to $650 for the return of shopping […]
Ed Feulner, who died on July 18, was a big man in every sense. Tall and bulky, he had a largeness of spirit, a generosity of soul, and his ambitions were commensurately vast. When he started running the Heritage Foundation in the early 1970s, it had nine employees. Now it has 300, half a million […]
If you don’t like Columbia University’s principles, it has others. For decades, Columbia rejected the evidence of its political extremism as a conservative smear job and said academic freedom was priceless. But when the Trump administration pressed the university to follow the law, its professors folded. The price of academic freedom turns out to be […]
The most sober a crack addict ever sounds is when he’s talking about the science of, well, crack. Amid three hours of screaming about George Clooney, the illegal immigrants responsible for cleaning his post-bender hotel rooms, the “f***ing dictator thug” Donald Trump, and his father’s entire campaign staff, Hunter Biden only finally found peace when […]
Pop music, like the rest of American society, has reached the exhausted endpoint of the taboo-litigation mania that’s marred the past decade of our national life. Having reckoned with racism, sexism, and a host of other identitarian crimes, and then having decided the reckoning was too embarrassing in its overreach for us to continue or […]
The Middle East was but a “sideshow” of a great power war, the legendary World War I British officer T.E. Lawrence, “Lawrence of Arabia,” indirectly admitted nearly a decade after the Great War’s end. Yet Lawrence himself had been drawn mothlike to the region’s flame, optimistically — some might say foolishly — projecting his hopes […]
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If any modern fashion designer warrants an obsessive biography, it’s Virgil Abloh. Through the 2010s, he made some of the most iconic Nike sneakers, founded one of the most important new fashion brands, Off-White, and gave men’s luxury a whole new look as creative director of menswear at Louis Vuitton despite having no formal fashion […]
Catholicism has become youth culture. As I write this, American youth are fetishizing the Catholic Church (what the New York Times called “New York’s Hottest Club”). Gen Zers are converting to Catholicism and posting about “sedevacantism,” the fringe-traditionalist Catholic belief that the papacy has been illegitimate since the Second Vatican. A Harvard University study showed […]
The proper role of judges has been on many a mind in recent years. In summer 2020, New York Times resident race scold and professional hysteric Jamelle Bouie penned “Down With Judicial Supremacy!,” a column urging Democrats to challenge “the idea that the courts, and the courts alone, determine constitutional meaning.” In March, the Federalist’s […]