Christopher Orlet
You don’t want to get Hillary Clinton riled up. Speaking this week to ABC News about the capture of a U.S. soldier by Islamic militants, the secretary of state took off her gloves: “It’s just outrageous. It’s a real sign…
Conservative intellectuals and pundits are old hands when it comes to being at odds with grassroots America. Whether it was William F. Buckley’s opposition to the War in Iraq, Milton Friedman’s championing of legalized marijuana or Heather Mac Donald’s defense…
We have “the conversation” every couple of days, the how-to-save-our-city discussion. Standing on the diverse, inner-city street on which my “reluctant socialist” girlfriend lives, we watch as earnest neo-bohemians transform a squalid commercial district into something so hip most people…
The recent guilty verdict in the infamous “Freezer Baby” murder case shows how ambivalent we in the West remain when it comes to the question of evil. Last week a French jury found Véronique Courjault, 41, guilty of the murders…
The headline of the week (from the AP): “Some militants respond positively to Obama speech.” It is perhaps instructive to take a headline like this and replace today’s evildoers with one from the past and see what you come up…
In 1987, Italian voters elected a foreign porn star to parliament. Anna Ilona “Cicciolina“ Staller received 20,000 votes, the second highest number for a Radical Party candidate. Only party leader Marco Pannella got more votes. Cicciolina campaigned on a platform…
Like Matthew Crawford, the author of the hip new anti-big business diatribe Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, I recently gave up my “knowledge” job for more physically strenuous and less intellectually engaging work. So…
I have a question for all the moral equivalency experts out there. Isn’t hiring Bristol Palin to be the spokeswoman against teen pregnancy a bit like appointing Tommy Chong drug czar? Ms. Palin, daughter of former GOP vice presidential candidate…
With every high profile murder one expects to read somewhere in the news accounts some rattled neighbor saying the suspected killer was “a quiet man who kept to himself.” In fact, the whole neighborhood figured the suspect was a ticking…
