It’s tiresomely fashionable these days to complain about New Year’s Eve. It always seems forced, people say. It’s too close to Christmas. It’s too expensive to go out. It’s noisy and fake and inconvenient. To which I say: All the more reason to throw a really fun party and give your far-flung and disparate friends someplace to go. Those who want to stay home can stay home. Those who want to dress up and drink and meet new people and perch on the arm of a sofa can come to my house and mix it up in a happy and convivial way.
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation caused quite an uproar on social media among many left-wing acolytes. These people, who often consider themselves enlightened, espouse such things as diversity, tolerance, and inclusion. Yet they are among the most exclusive, intolerant, and homogeneous of people. They seek power, authority, and wealth for themselves and those like them. They have contempt for anyone who is different. They have fear and loathing for anyone who opposes them. Hell hath no fury like the social media scorn of people who supported Gay and her left-wing ideology.
Pro-Hamas activists mobbed the California legislature and shut down the state Assembly, and yet it seems California Democrats are OK with some forms of lawlessness in a capitol building to subvert the legislative process and not others.
Claudine Gay’s demotion from the presidency at Harvard University is being painted by liberal media (and Gay herself) as part of a conservative attack on liberal institutions and our elitist betters. In reality, it is Gay and her fellow liberals who are destroying the respect those institutions crave.
The U.S. is riding another wave of rising COVID-19 infections, as holiday gatherings and a new variant are driving increased transmission. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the wastewater viral activity level for COVID-19 is the highest it’s been since the omicron surge in 2022. At the same time, a new variant...
Former CIA Director John Brennan said he is optimistic that the U.S. has “good intelligence” that can mitigate dangers from Houthi rebels Thursday. “I do think [the] United States, along with the U.K., and other actors are going to take actions to mitigate the potential danger that the Houthis pose,” Brennan said Thursday on MSNBC....
Nearshoring allows for closer proximity for production and distribution, greater vigilance and control of intellectual property, faster transit to customers, speed to market, a similar time zone in most cases and an improvement in supply chain efficiency.
Vili Fualaau says he’s “offended” he wasn’t consulted about the Netflix film “May December,” despite the plot being inspired in part by his story. “I’m still alive and well,” Fualaau said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, published Thursday. “If they had reached out to me, we could have worked together on a masterpiece,” he added....
A group of more than 30 Democratic senators is pushing major automakers to remain neutral amid worker efforts to unionize. In a letter Thursday, the lawmakers asked 13 car manufacturers to pledge to not interfere with any efforts to unionize at their plants. “We believe a neutrality agreement is the bare minimum standard manufacturers should...