The Other McCain

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

Guilt by Association: White House Ditches Aide for Speaking at 2016 Conference

  “Are you now, or have you ever been, a white nationalist?” A speechwriter for President Donald Trump who attended a conference frequented by white nationalists has left the White House. CNN’s KFile reached out to the White House last week about Darren Beattie, a policy aide and speechwriter, who was listed as speaking at […]

The Lesbian NYU Professor Who Sexually Harassed Her Gay Male Student

She’s in her 60s. She could plead senility, I guess: The case seems like a familiar story turned on its head: Avital Ronell, a world-renowned female professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, was found responsible for sexually harassing a male former graduate student, Nimrod Reitman. An 11-month Title IX investigation found […]

No, America, @JessicaValenti Doesn’t Want to Help Your Sons, She Hates Them

  It is difficult to exaggerate the evil of Jessica Valenti. Her “feminism” is, on the one hand, mostly partisan cheerleading for Democrats and, on the other hand, an excuse for her own destructive anti-social tendencies. Her recent memoir, Sex Object, is a “vengeful diatribe against heterosexual men,” including her own husband, Andrew Golis. “Every […]

‘Equality’ and the Loss of Decency

  Maria Hernandez at Victory Girls notices that feminists are now complaining that men are being ostentatiously rude, i.e., failing to yield their seats to pregnant women on public transportation. In the years when I routinely rode the Metro to work in D.C., I was rather astonished by the lack of courtesy. The way I […]

The Butler Did It: ‘Gender Trouble’ and the Academic Roots of the #Transcult

  When I began researching feminism in 2014, one of the first controversies that came to my attention was the conflict between radical feminists and transgender activists. Initially, my impulse was to point and laugh at what I called the Competitive Victimhood Derby, but after further investigation, it became apparent to me that the radical […]

Loony Troons: Fantasy, Mental Illness and the Transgender Victimhood Narrative

  Avery Edison “has legally been a woman since 2009” and, in addition to calling himself a woman, Avery also pretends to be a “comedian.” Here’s the real question: Why should we be required to play along with Avery’s make-believe games, either as a “comedian” or as a “woman”? Nobody can force you to go […]

Murder, Lies and Feminism

1994: L.A. police pursue murder suspect O.J. Simpson. The word “mansplaining” was inspired (although not coined) by Rebecca Solnit, whose book Men Explain Things to Me became a bestseller. In this book, Ms. Solnit writes: “So many men murder their partners and former partners that we have well over a thousand homicides of that kind […]

Fear and Loathing in a Highgate Mansion: Johnny Depp Is Decadent and Depraved

Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in 2003 (left) and as a loser in 2018 (right). If you haven’t read Rolling Stone‘s 10,000-word profile of Johnny Depp, I can summarize it briefly: He’s wrecked. He’s ruined. The Pirates of the Caribbean star has utterly destroyed his career and reputation, and is rapidly approaching financial ruin. […]

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