A video has emerged in Minneapolis showing a preschool-age child striking and swearing at a pair of Minneapolis police officers while egged on by an adult bystander. In the video released by Alpha News on July 10, an underwear-clad child…
The State of Black America: Progress, Pitfalls, and the Promise of the Republic Edited by W. B. Allen (Encounter Books, 352 pages, $32) It’s common to hear liberal progressives talk about black Americans as if they’re children. The Washington Post…
It feels so wonderful, so liberating, that I get to share my thoughts orally and in print. So many of my colleagues, by contrast, whisper to me their beliefs — identical to mine — but terrified to be “found out.”…
Every time some lost soul with writhing snakes in his head does something wretched with a gun, as happened in Uvalde, we’re immediately buried in loud, public non-sequiturs: howls to DO SOMETHING! Even though the somethings called for have no…
So our readers will know, for the near entirety of your author’s life, pro and college sports have been an obsession. Looking back on it, probably an unhealthy one. Age and maturity and the vicissitudes of 21st-century life are sharply…
Chicago — I am in the Windy City — why is not Washington called the Windy City or the Windiest City? I came with my wife to attend a meeting of the fabled Federalist Society. She is a member of…
Elon Musk has done it. Now that Twitter is going to be self-driving and Tesla cars won’t be able to carry more than 140 characters, lots of progressive people are already packing their bags to take off for Mars with…
Joe Biden campaigned on the promise of appointing to the Supreme Court a black woman who subscribes to his liberal interpretation of the Constitution. In Ketanji Brown Jackson, he has fulfilled this campaign promise. She has long been a darling…
An interesting thought experiment can be had in this: what would Malcolm X think of current events and American race relations if he were around today? Going solely by the statements of the combative 1960s black leader, one might project…
They tell of an illegal poker game in late 1920s New York. (Think: Nathan Detroit and Guys and Dolls.) The cops raid the joint in the cellar and they find three people at the card table — yes, a priest,…