It isn’t always easy to give money away
Just try funding a Western Civilization program at an Australian university
Never has a virus been so oversold
I’d like to sign on with COVID’s agent. What a publicity budget
Open letters have become ransom notes
Online diatribes decry a university’s shabby racial record and issue the now-standard list of demands
The vanity of ‘white guilt’
We’re making a spectacle of shame
Marching against racism is too easy
What we need is practical change
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
