“Communist China’s Meat Grinder,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, Oct. 11, 2022.
I hate government rescue plans. Whenever the government comes to my rescue, I drown. The post-COVID bailout plan is turning out to be the biggest incompetence fest of the century: in both Europe and the United States, governments are funding…
The nation’s flagship Catholic university is getting into the business of the occult. The University of Notre Dame is selling tarot cards that can be used for divinatory purposes and witchcraft guides that teach readers magic spells. The products are…
When South Korea’s newly elected president, Yoon Suk-yeol, was on the campaign trail, he rode a wave of anti-feminist public sentiment, appealing to young male voters who felt that their status was being threatened by gender equality policies. Observers expressed…
Right now, most China observers focus their attention on the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which will be held in mid-October. Their focus is on whether Xi Jinping, who is finishing up full two terms (10…
In a perceptive essay published in the Winter 1995 issue of Dissent, just war theorist Michael Walzer questioned the morality of nonintervention-as-absolute policy on the part of nations having the wherewithal to prevent gross evil.[1] To intervene or not intervene,…
As the heat rises, the newspapers fill up with news that leaves us frozen. We run out of adjectives. The official classifiers can no longer find labels to describe such crime: “domestic violence,” “gender violence,” and “family violence.” The answers…
The crassness of the Democratic response to the collapse of Roe v. Wade is beyond parody. Even the coldest utilitarian philosophers of the past look moderate by comparison to the pro-abortion Democrats. The killing of unborn children, they tell us,…
Throughout the 2015-16 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, I urged conservatives not to nominate Donald Trump. I repeatedly wrote against Trump, including at this venerable publication, outraging many of my faithful readers. When November 2016 arrived, I did not…
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