Unlike the countless men whose careers were killed in the fury of the #MeToo movement, Morgan Spurlock didn’t just deny he had committed serial sex abuse and misconduct, he embraced the reality that he was “a part of the problem,” canceling himself in a shocking 2017 blog post in which he confessed to harassing subordinates […]
Some nerds in Silicon Valley decided years ago that dating needed to be reshaped so as to remove the risk of rejection. Now, in 2024, a norm is taking root that flirting is a microaggression if not sexual harassment. As a result, young men, afraid that approaching someone of the opposite sex in real life […]
In the Mad Max franchise he established in 1979 and continues to the present day, Australian filmmaker George Miller has demonstrated a rare command of movement across vast spaces. Arguably, no director — not even masters of the form like William Friedkin or John Frankenheimer — has wrung more sheer kinesis out of his chase […]
Frantz Fanon, the intellectual patron saint of violent national resistance movements, is among the authors most likely to be quoted on a sign held up at the protests that have recently taken up so many headlines. In the new book The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, London Review of Books editor Adam […]
“No one will tell you that the Civil War began in Hartford, Connecticut. … But if you want to explain how ordinary democratic practices led to fratricidal war, how political conflicts became military ones, and why the war came in 1861 rather than 1850, or 1820, or 1619, Hartford may be a wise place to start,” […]
There’s a lot of money and some activist passion on the Left behind prosecutors who value mercy over vengeance, but most of the energy on that side these days is behind locking up the “bad people.” Alvin Bragg ran for district attorney on the promise of prosecuting former President Donald Trump — and won. Think […]
London. The next British general election will be held on the Fourth of July. The date means nothing in Britain. It isn’t a day of mourning for the loss of the American colonies. No one reflects on how King George III might have done it differently if he’d listened to Edmund Burke. No one suggests […]
Former President Trump's attorney Todd Blanche doubled down on the belief his client is not guilty in his hush money case, arguing following the verdict that it was difficult for his team to receive a fair trial. "I very much believe that the jury should have found President Trump not guilty. I mean...in my soul...
May 30, 2024 (Washington D.C.) – The Hill and leading election results provider Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) today released DDHQ’s first forecast for the 2024 races for President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives – and the initial projection is that the GOP has the edge in all three contests. According to DDHQ’s debut weekly forecast: The DDHQ Forecast is a quantitative...
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who has steadfastly refused to comment about the presidential race or his long-running feud with former President Trump, came to Trump’s defense Thursday night. Hours after the jury rendered its guilty verdict, McConnell declared that the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should never have brought the case and predicted...