Is this the end of history?
George Floyd was a pretext, not a cause. The cause was destruction of our civilization
Teddy Roosevelt saw this mob coming
Who is immune from retrospective condemnation?
Thank goodness for Hillsdale College
At least one institution is standing firm against the mob of kneelers and capitulators and sentimentalizers
Christo’s art of self-promotion
The late artist and his wife spent years assiduously burnishing his image
Cellar’s market
What bubbles up must go down
How to destroy civilization
Thanks to tenured radicals, we are witnessing the retribalization of the world
Justice vs anarchy
From the very beginning Trump has condemned the looting and stood up for the rule of law
In praise of Kayleigh McEnany
She’s a patient but no-nonsense camp counselor in charge of the problem kids
Let’s blame China
Much of the western media is behaving like a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist party
How are the public meant to trust the rule of law?
A ‘single and proper standard of justice’ has not been scrupulously, or even half-heartedly, applied to the Trump-Russia story
Andrew Cuomo is a deadly failure
The New York governor is a bungler, yet he’s hailed as a hero
Flynnocent: why the general has a long way to go before justice is served
It’s being blared about the internet that now, finally, at last, the 30-year military veteran has got justice. Not yet he hasn’t
The shameful smearing of Michael Flynn
Why, if the FBI had concluded that Flynn was not guilty of collusion with the Russian, were two agents sent to lure him into a perjury trap?
Wine is for lovers: mein Gott and yours
I have some good advice about some things you might want to drink after you have gathered with one or two appropriate friends
There are lies, damned lies and epidemiological models
What will be the fatality rate of our insane overreaction?
Will the coronavirus succeed where Russiagate and Ukrainegate failed?
At last, Donald Trump’s enemies may have found a winner
Barack Obama’s endorsement of Joe Biden is comedy gold
A masterly performance, delivered with a straight face
This Easter, we should moderate our complacency
The pressure of contemporary events crowds us into the impatient confines of the present, rendering us insensible to the lessons of history
Cab and conversation
A Healdsburg symposium
The case for reopening the country now
Public health experts are well and good in their place. Their place is not running the country
The Democrats just made a huge mistake
They are exploiting a national emergency for the grubbiest of partisan motives
Panic among the pigeons
Moral intoxication, like the physical variety, is regularly followed by a hangover
COVID-19 is terrifying — as a weapon of political propaganda
The Wuhan Panic is a textbook case of the Rahm Emanuel principle that you never want a good crisis to go to waste
Time to scrap the Goldwater Rule
Biden’s many errors are tokens of serious mental incapacity
Vintage Brooklyn: the wines of Red Hook
We tasted six or seven maturing wines straight from the barrel. It was a little like watching some young ballerinas
