The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Marxism by Any Other Name

Betty Friedan (left) leads a 1971 protest for the Equal Rights Amendment “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” — Ronald Reagan, 1987 Understanding feminism requires a critical study of the movement’s history that […]

Notes on Hip: Hanson as Sontag

Susan Sontag circa 1965 In 1964, Susan Sontag published a 6,000-word essay in Partisan Review called “Notes on ‘Camp,’” which described a hitherto little-noted phenomenon: A sensibility emerging from the gay subculture and just then beginning to diffuse itself through the world of art and theater. Sontag was a prodigy: She graduated high school at 15, […]

The Obama Age: ‘That ’70s Show’

In last night’s traditional Christmas round-up — genius! — I began by quoting Rob Long’s doom-and-gloom comments from a New York magazine feature about the post-election National Review Caribbean cruise, an article you should read in its entirety, if you want to be thoroughly depressed about the uselessness of our conservative elite: Wonks, pundits, pollsters […]

Why Liberals Hate You

Rare is the day when I have cause to express gratitude to Matt Yglesias, but his expression of the statist view could not be clearer:   The concept of “redistribution” falsely implies that the existence of property is prior to the existence of the state. #mythofownership — Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 18, 2012   Could […]

This Might Be What You’d Call ‘Relevant’

Remember how Liz McMillen threw Naomi Schaefer Riley to the wolves over accusations of racism? Headline at American Power: Naomi Schaefer Riley Is Married to the Wall Street Journal‘s Jason Riley, Who is Black Routine conversation at the Riley household, as imagined by typical readers of the Chronicle of Higher Education: Naomi: Honey, will you […]

Commissars Sacrifice Naomi Schaefer Riley to the ‘New Gods of Diversity’

You might think that being a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard, an accomplished journalist and published author, would be the kind of impeccable credentials that would offer some protection against the occasional eruptions of intellectual cannibalism on campus. Alas, no. Naomi Schaefer Riley is a former Wall Street Journal editor, the author of God […]

Boreal Supremacy: Bruce Bartlett’s Tendentious History of Partisanship

Years ago, when I was living in Georgia, I coined the term boreal supremacy to describe the attitude of certain people that all things Northern were superior to all things Southern. That attitude has offended me ever since the 1970s, when Yankees started flooding into my native Atlanta, where the municipal motto might as well be, […]

Will The SEALs Do For BHO What Goldberg Is Doing For Progressives?

by Smitty Bagram sucks, I can affirm, having languished there for a couple of months. If #OccupyResoluteDesk wants to #OccupyBagram, more power to him. How cheap is his one-year-on, please-can-we-not-talk-economy victory lap going to look in the face of blowback from the SEALs, though? The bulk of the people paying attention this year kinda know […]

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