The presidential campaign of 2024 reached Peak TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) last week on The Howard Stern Show. The world’s top shock jock turned lefty sycophant was interviewing Kamala Harris and said that if Donald Trump wins the presidency, “[T]he…
Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History By Nellie Bowles (Thesis, 272 pages, $23) In January 1970, while visiting his future wife at her office in Manhattan, journalist Tom Wolfe spotted a letter on a nearby…
Understanding the political philosophy of the Left requires us to acknowledge its historical context. To put it another way, we can’t come to terms with the postmodern clown world without knowing what makes that kind of world go around. So,…
High taxes, high crime, and a brazenly corrupt legal system are all taking their toll on the Big Apple. Between July 2020 and July 2023, New York State led all 50 states in population loss in percentage terms at 2.65…
CNN reports that a “left-wing activist” released secret recordings of Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, and Justice Samuel Alito and his wife. Though incredibly sleazy, the stunt was also a colossal swing and miss. What did we…
“When T.S. Eliot said that there are no lost causes because there are no won causes, he probably was not thinking of American conservatism,” begins the opening paragraph of Sam Francis’ seminal 1991 essay, “Beautiful Losers.” “American conservatism,” Francis wrote,…
One of the more disturbing outcomes of the late 2023 congressional investigation into the prevalence of antisemitism on America’s college and university campuses was the discovery of widespread plagiarism. No sooner was it clear that Harvard president Claudine Gay may…
Apparently advocating U.S. extended involvement in lengthy wars that turned out to be disastrous costly quagmires is not a humbling experience for what is left of the American neoconservative movement. Today’s neoconservatives are a far cry from the Irving Kristols…
This week, OpenAI decided to bequeath a brand-new toy to the internet — and I’m not entirely sure the internet knows how to use it. It’s called ChatGPT 4o (yes, that’s an ‘o,’ not a zero) and it’s as though…
