Last night, after reading authors like Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Monique Wittig, and Anne Fausto-Sterling, I tore up my identity card. I am tired of being locked into an identitarian, dichotomous, and infringed normative framework. Something has stirred…
“With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not…
The Left is fixated on globalism. The UN. Davos. The São Paulo Forum. I don’t believe in grand conspiracies, but neither do I believe in coincidences. The plan is clear. On the other hand, the Right is incapable of coming…
Democrats are fresh out of ideas on crime. “Defund, demonize, and demoralize the police!” How’s that working out? “End cash bail!” This flash of brilliance is WD-40 for revolving-door justice. “Gun control!” Fists, knives, axes, chairs, and arm shoves onto subway…
Now let me be certain I understand this correctly: 1. Women whom we used to call “Soccer Moms” now are White suburban Karens who register as Independents. 2. She/Her/Hers. 3. In plural: They/Their /Theirs. 4. Not to be confused with…
It’s by now an established trope in books and films, but the first thing the communist revolutionaries do when toppling a regime in Latin America and elsewhere is to ride to the radio station and commandeer it por la revolución….
Chesa Boudin is, by any reasonable measure, a nut job. Conservatives could not grow a more picture-perfect political villain in a petri dish, even if they tried; Boudin really is that caricaturable. Boudin’s parents were Weather Underground domestic terrorists and,…
San Francisco’s radical progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin, the son of Weather Underground terrorists David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin (both of whom spent decades in prison for participation in violent crimes), and who was raised by Bill Ayers, a founding…
I lived in Vermont for four years some 35 years ago, and now I’m a Vermont watcher. The place in the 1980s was certainly liberal, center-left with a small radical fringe. There were conservative Republicans, multi-generational New Englanders who exuded…
Armed with a smartphone and a Twitter account, every day she makes national news by prating pure blather and blatant baloney, the latest drivel popping into her head. The media reports on her wherever she is, dutifully bannering her words…