This is not a natural disaster, but a manmade one
I am steeped in dread. I foresee months, if not years, of inane gesturing towards ‘safety’ that makes no appreciable difference to the nation’s health
Real problems erase fake ones
Should unemployment skyrocket in the US, the fracas over Confederate monuments will evaporate
Whatever happened to dissent?
The British have bought the lockdown hook, line and non-thinker
The longer lockdown continues, the more imperiled we become
A broke society is a violent society
Why Hachette were wrong to drop Woody Allen’s memoir
Publishing is now a bottom-up, populist industry in which an army of 12-year-old editorial assistants enjoy a veto over the catalog
I won’t read American Dirt — but not because the author has the wrong skin color
You can’t own stories. You can’t patent topics and classes of character
Is ‘Mini Mike’ a growing threat to Trump?
Rather than rooting for a revolution, most Democrats yearn to give CNN a rest and go back to reruns of Friends
Asians are doing too well — they must be stopped
The Asian American success story catastrophically undermines the assumptions behind affirmative action
Dear Nigel Farage: don’t become the man who reversed the referendum result
At this point, to hold out for a ‘clean’ exit that’s never going to happen is to embrace defeat
Even in New York they’re going nuts over Brexit
The many arguments for and against are immaterial. All that matters is who wins
Britain’s political system is broken. America’s isn’t
The people put Trump in power. Best, then, that the people oust him
The abject stupidity of the Arnautoff murals debacle
Don’t blame snowflakes – grown-ups are the idiots
Contraception is the answer to climate change
More people, more carbon emissions. Duh!
All money is dirty – but it can still be used for good
This museum ballyhoo is all about posturing
The best response to hate speech is free speech
It’s time to give up on the idea that we can legislate niceness
Where is the Democrat who can take on Trump?
Liberals repelled by both a blatant idiot and a bankrupting socialist could simply stay home
When did calorie counting become offensive?
Disproportionate sensitivity is learned behavior
Don’t use up all your rhetoric at once
Hyperbole makes words worthless
How’s your adversity score?
The attempt to make the SAT more inclusive will handicap the very children it is meant to reward
We’re all self-haters now
As an American coming of age at the butt of the 1960s, I celebrated self-loathing
Imagine the uproar if Remain had won, but MPs then made Britain leave
Throughout this three-year circus, a favorite Europhilic weapon of choice has been sheer bafflement
If you forgive the IRA, then you must forgive the Parachute Regiment too
The hardest part to swallow of the Good Friday Agreement was the release of paramilitary prisoners
Why I hate ‘the N-word’
The pretense is that you’re not saying it, when of course you are
Without forgiveness, we’re all doomed
Contemporary sensibilities are applied to behavior in an earlier era, when it was regarded rather differently
Demography has become the biggest story on the planet
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World by Paul Morland reviewed
