“Behave Yourself, Guest”
For rhetorical zingers, Imam Mohamad Tawhidi might deserve some kind of trophy. Amazing what time can do. Little girl from the deserts of Somalia speaking like that to the President…
On the Wall
About a decade ago, Democrats (including Obama and Clinton) supported the erection of a border wall. Republicans, broadly speaking, were generally uninterested in immigration and highly critical of spending a…
What is the Problem with Liberalism?
Contra my own lofty ideals that led me to delete my Facebook account, I found myself in a debate on Twitter the other day. The original post went as follows:…
What’s the Deal With Russia?
It's not just a point of irony that feelings about Russia have flipped along party lines. Once upon a 20th-century, no one loved Russia more than the American left, who…
Raising the Temperature
I don't think it's possible to exaggerate the importance of this story: FBI agents raided the home of a recognized Department of Justice whistleblower who privately delivered documents pertaining to…
The Responsibility Paradox
Possibly the most annoying thing that Jordan Peterson has argued (echoed in even more absurd terms by many of his followers, on other people's platforms) is the idea that we…
On Pragmatic Christianity
It's becoming common in politically-right circles to hear that the West won't be revivified without Christianity. Vox Day has variously argued that the West itself is composed of three parts…
The False Security of Moderation
I was just ran out of an establishment because of where I work. Chewed out, abused. But I guess that’s the norm now. -- Kat Timpf In the aftermath of…
Real Journalism
I'd be willing to bet that many people are kind of sick of hearing people like me bemoan the decline of journalism, how the media is generally partisan garbage, and…
Caveats on Orwell
From almost six years back, Ed Smith has some interesting insight on the subject of deceptive speech and Orwell's Politics and the English Language: Orwell argues that “the great enemy of…