William Murchison
“Liberty, equality, fraternity” was the watchword of the French revolutionaries. They’d never heard of the Boy Scouts of America (obviously), but if they had, they would be tossing their liberty caps in the air at last week’s news of the…
Harvey Weinstein was just expressing his little ol’ self, right? That is what you do, even when it gets you fired, as happened to Weinstein, or suspended, as happened to Jemele Hill at ESPN, or threatened with suspension, as in…
Some may confess to the need for smelling salts subsequent to discovering that Donald Trump has spoken the plain, unvarnished truth about the Las Vegas massacre. The truth he spoke is one the world needs to receive with gratitude, in…
Let’s not stress out, shall we, while endeavoring to make sense of the fuss and foolishness over mass NFL boycotting of the “Star Spangled Banner.” That would be because the fuss and foolishness themselves make no sense: save as a…
Harking back fondly to the standards of half a century go — ah, weren’t those the blithe, happy days? — won’t get you much of a hearing from today’s self-appointed arbiters of college and university Moral Questions. I don’t care….
A Dallas city government push to remove visible reminders of the Confederacy (e.g., a splendid equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee) has put in my mind a constructive notion. This country needs much more than a good five-cent cigar, as…
Well, nyaaah, nyaaah, nyaaah! Out pops, in the general direction of small-government conservatives, the fastidious tongue of the New York Times itself. Just look at these small-government conservatives, the Times enjoins. Don’t seem to care so much for “small government,”…
You might say it has not been much of a month for the human race. I might myself contend that signs of life float on the flooded streets of Houston. People are acting the way people used to act, back…
Civilized disagreement — that’s one thing. Flagrant insult, direct or strongly powerfully implied, as a lever for moving public policy along — let me see; I don’t believe I’d call it persuasive, uplifting, or even very useful. I would call…
The jury is in, and from the glowering looks on all faces, the verdict appears unanimous: The President blew it. What did he mean, the infamy in Charlottesville could be ascribed to “many sides”? His accompanying condemnation of “hatred, bigotry,…
