The Ministry of Humor Is Not Amused
Within the span of a week, a Netflix comedy special had the distinction of becoming the greatest threat to society since the Plague of Justinian ripped through Constantinople in the 7th century...
View ArticleMemento Mori: Rutger Hauer’s Message in ‘Blade Runner’
The death in July of Dutch actor Rutger Hauer brought out reflections on his career. Hauer made his film debut as a wild sculptor in Paul Verhoeven’s “Turkish Delight” (1973), and since then has...
View ArticleNot by Negligence, But by Policy
Andrew Pollack is a man on a mission. His beautiful and beloved daughter Meadow was one of the 17 students murdered by a deranged former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14,...
View ArticleA Detailed Account of America’s Greatest Political Scandal
In early 2017, as the shocking story of how the Obama Administration weaponized the world’s most powerful agencies against Donald Trump began to unfold, very few journalists were willing to confront...
View ArticleToward a New Cynicism
When I was a teenager my kid sister and I came up with a concept we called CST. You see, my Cuban mom was always late. No matter what the occasion she reliably could be expected to be chronologically...
View ArticleThe Cruel Joke of Hollywood’s Sanctimony is Seen in Reaction to ‘Joker’
Hollywood loves four things: sex, guns, crazy, and money. Quentin Tarantino has made a career of amping up all four brilliantly in his movies. Have you seen “John Wick” 1-3? The entire entertainment...
View ArticleCanceling the Joker
Leftists and feminists fear the Joker. They claim the new Warner Bros. movie, Joker, will inspire mass shootings and “incel” violence. The Batman villain, played by Joaquin Phoenix, is seen as the...
View ArticleReclaiming Common Sense
In a healthy society, defending common sense wouldn’t be necessary. But in 2019 America, it is. Robert Curry offers just such a defense in his book Reclaiming Common Sense. Despite its brevity (107...
View ArticleCamille Paglia, Now More than Ever
Ever since she burst onto the intellectual scene with the publication of Sexual Personae (1990), Camille Paglia has been challenging the norms of what it means to be a public intellectual. Her...
View Article‘Modified’ Should Be Vilified
Every so often, we scientists encounter something that is so misguided, so wrong-headed, so perfectly idiotic it takes our breath away. It offends us. Such an example is a docudrama film called...
View ArticleCold War Kicks
As talk of “cold civil war” heats up, I decided to turn on, tune in, and drop out with two flicks set in the days of the old Iron Curtain. Even through the lens of pop culture that favors them, it can...
View Article‘Joker’: A Cinematic Marvel, and a Statement About Society
By now, you have most likely heard one of two things regarding the new film “Joker,” and while one of those things could not be further from the truth, the other could not be more accurate if it tried....
View ArticleFIFA Punishes Fans Booing China but Not Booing USA
The NBA isn’t the only sports league kowtowing to China. In soccer, Hong Kong fans’ protest against the authoritarian nature of China’s regime gets punished while in the United States the woke Left’s...
View ArticleAmerican Soulless Cowards for China
When Houston Rockets’ general manager Daryl Morey tweeted, “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong,” Communist China called a foul. Down came the tweet and Chinese state television axed two NBA...
View ArticleSuicide in the West
It is almost a moral imperative to read any book Salem-ed by the types that shamble across the pages and pixels of The Guardian. You just have to. French novelist Michel Houellebecq, l’enfant terrible,...
View ArticleHarold Bloom, A Man in Full
“We read to find ourselves,” Harold Bloom once wrote, “more fully and more strange than otherwise we could hope to find.” Bloom, who died Monday, was a man of letters—a literary critic, lover of...
View ArticleThe Swamp Goes to the World Series
Real sports fans take their teams with them. Even when they move to work for the federal government. Nothing brings Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, and Phillies fans together better than a bar full of sloppy...
View ArticleHalloween Costume Blues
That magical time of year is here, when the Left goes out of its way to be the enemy of fun. Hmmm…we’d better narrow that down. That isn’t really a seasonal thing. We refer specifically to the night of...
View ArticleHow the 2019 World Series Explains Washington
The year was 1924. Calvin Coolidge was president. The Roaring Twenties were in full swing. And the Washington Nationals (a.k.a. the Senators) won the World Series. It’s been 95 years since the...
View ArticleThe Joke’s on Those Demanding a Female ‘Joker’
It’s amazing what a difference success makes. Within a mere few weeks of its release we’ve gone from revulsion at the idea of the new “Joker” movie to calls for it to be reinterpreted as a female...
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