UPDATE III: Margaret Thatcher: An Individualist, Not A Feminist (Republican...
“Margaret Thatcher: An Individualist, Not A Feminist” is the new column, now on WND. Here is an excerpt. Read the rest on WND: “Feminism is a form of collectivism. The sludge of feminist thought was as...
View ArticleUnscrambling Libertarian Scripts
Here I answer my pal Myron Pauli, who, while a fierce individualist, all too often falls into the blasé libertarian, collective group-think, whereby only Ron Paul escapes blame for his imperfections...
View ArticleGlenn Greenwald: Guarding Liberty @ The Guardian
More than “Smashing a CNN Government Apologist,” as EPJ’s Robert Wenzel put it, Glenn Greenwald “floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee,” Cassius-Clay style, around the unincisive, silly Jeffrey...
View ArticleUPDATED: John Maynard Keynes: Where’s The Genius? (Part 1)
“John Maynard Keynes: Where’s The Genius?! (Part 1)” is the first part of my conversation with Benn Steil. Dr. Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign...
View ArticleUPDATE II: Zakaria Second-Hander Speaks On Syria (The Syria & Libya MO)
Fareed Zakaria plagiarizer is big in America primarily because of his reliably banal, unoriginal brain. This “gift” is a prerequisite for maintaining the establishment’s status quo. Or, as Jeff Tucker...
View ArticleA Bum’s Rush To Pope Francis
In his 1998 encyclical, “Faith and Reason,” Pope John Paul spoke with unhectoring clarity about the errors of relativism in modern thought. While Karol Wojtyla’s role in the fall of communism is likely...
View ArticleWhy I Miss Lawrence Auster, RIP
Brilliantly did the late Larry Auster dissect the demise of Russel Kirk’s conservatism at The American Conservative (TAC) magazine. Division of labor being part of a natural intellectual order that...
View ArticleUPDATED: Chucky Krauthammer’s Keynesianism (Neocon Chucky: Tinkering Technocrat)
On Special Report today, Chucky Krauthammer could be heard quickly correcting his characteristic Keynesianism when fellow Fox-News panelist neoconservative George Will made him look, well, silly. As...
View ArticleIdeologues Battle Intellectuals Over ’12 Years a Slave’
Libertarian gush and tosh over the film “12 Years a Slave” is worse than juvenile; it’s anti-intellectual. Anyone who asserts that the book is “one of the greatest autobiographies [he's] ever read,” as...
View ArticleGo Alweady, Bawbawa Walters!
Barbara Walters has promised to retire. But then so did that lip-licking lizard, Larry King. You can’t take them at their word. In my journalism-school days one looked up to the brilliant and brave...
View ArticleWSJ Writer Uses Swift’s Name In Vain
Thunder clap for Mary Anastasia O’Grady of the Wall Street Journal. She has written “A Meandering Proposal for Migrant Children.” O’Grady’s soporific letter is actually titled “A Modest Proposal for...
View ArticleLiberal Vs. Libertarian Response To Ferguson (Rand’s Just An Opportunist)
“Liberal outrage over what some see as racial injustice” vs. libertarian anger “that connects the perceived overreaction by a militarised local law enforcement to [a libertarian] critique of the...
View ArticleThe Grubby Jonathan Gruber: Typical Social Sciences Ph.D. from MIT
A Ph.D. from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jonathan Gruber is an unscholarly political hack, burdened by political ambition and unburdened by a scholarly mind. Gruber embodies what the...
View ArticleRest In Peace, Dennis O’Keeffe
I met Dennis O’Keeffe, of blessed memory, at a Liberty Fund colloquium entitled “History, Citizenship and Patriotism in Liberal Democracy,” where Dennis—a professor of sociology at the University of...
View ArticleThe Stepford Students
I’ve written about the deadened Millennial Mind. Comedian Chris Rock has stated that he avoids doing his stand-up before Millennials. Brendan O’Neill of The Spectator calls them “The Stepford...
View ArticleThe Mindless, Mirthless Millennial
Millennials likely don’t know what mirthless means. Most of them are pig-ignorant even when “educated” or “well-traveled.” As I continue to discover in my own interactions, Millennials are diversity...
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Pope In An Intellectual Wilderness
I once read a papal encyclical: John Paul’s. With his 1998 encyclical, Pope John Paul sounded a lone voice for both “Faith and Reason” in the postmodern religious wilderness. Who else spoke with...
View ArticleTrump’s No Pat Buchanan
The “New York Magazine’s” Jonathan Chaffe compared Donald Trump to Pat Buchanan. I’d take that as a compliment. Whenever readers—my editor @ WND, too—have mentioned that I remind them of Pat Buchanan,...
View ArticleJonathan Meades Is Ever So Convincing; Much More Than Brutalism
The little I know about Brutalist architecture is enough to make me skeptical of Jonathan Meades’ brilliantly spoken claims for it. This school of architecture seems to have been wedded to The State...
View ArticleCold Turkey For Creepy Kids And Their Even Creepier Parents
Here is a follow up on our pro-civilization, Adult Lives Matter, reclaim-the-childhood crusade. To our dossier on a child-deifying nation, we add the insanity that is the non-dilemma below. A DRUDGE...
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