Media
Who would have thought Michael Avenatti was a greedy porn lawyer?
His case should be an admonitory tale
Roger Scruton: An apology for thinking
I am forced to acknowledge what a mistake it is to address young leftists as though they were responsible human beings
Roger Stone: I will be vindicated
The Republican campaign strategist on the Bushes, Alex Jones, and how he’s never described himself as a ‘dirty trickster’
Roger Scruton on Soros and Hungary
It is clear from his consistent pattern of statements that Scruton is not anti-Semitic towards George Soros
Pyle on: the warped logic of online cancel culture
Political positions are more nuanced than what can fit into a tweet
Why the Left can’t understand Tucker Carlson
The only script he follows is his own
Piers Morgan: why Donald Trump will be re-elected in 2020
He’s a brilliant campaigner who’s won every political contest he’s entered
‘Boom!’: an autopsy of the media after the Mueller bombshell
Dunking on Rachel Maddow may be fun, but she’s far from the sole perpetrator
If Thomas Friedman bristles at Brexit, you know everything will be OK
The philosopher-king’s take on Britain leaving the EU is his typical mixture of Midwestern gee-shucking and historical buffoonery
Could Tom Wolfe have invented the Jussie Smollett story?
The Smollett story is so perfectly Wolfeian I wouldn’t be all that surprised if somebody told me it was his last unfinished book
The real Russiagate: why are the press ignoring Putin’s troops in Venezuela?
Yet again, the US media sidesteps important foreign policy coverage
We should celebrate Mueller’s exoneration of Trump
Invoking the mighty machinery of the constitution to pursue grievances is bad for the office of the presidency, and therefore the United States
The whitewashing of Jussie Smollett
Was he guilty? Or just a jackass?
The privilege of Jussie Smollett
If the actor inspires others to create their own hate crime hoaxes, he is a threat to public safety
Barbra Streisand makes a mistake and tells the truth
Not so Funny, Girl
New York Times: Brexit is white supremacy
The editors of the Times will print any nonsense about Britain so long as it confirms their prejudices about Brexit
I’m back in New York: the city that’s perennially offended
Welcome, filthy island packed to the gills with angry, mean, squat Trump haters who live in decrepit buildings they share with rat
Can you go to jail for ‘misgendering’? One British journalist is about to find out
Caroline Farrow is being investigated by a British police force for sending some tweets
The dark extremism of the ‘extremely online’
The New Zealand killer is a creature poisoned by the irony vortex of the internet
Tucker Carlson’s show hits #1 spot
Advertisers may be nervous over the Media Matters fight. Viewers are loving it
How to be a right-wing performance artist
Jacob Wohl, Laura Loomer and Ali Alexander are the true heirs to Andy Kauffman
The miserable, squalid campaign to stifle Tucker Carlson
The Fox News host’s only real crime is daring to be provocative in a dull media world
A marketer’s request: Make SXSW exciting again
The festival is attempting to position itself as politically and socially relevant with initiatives like the presidential candidate interviews
LEAVE TITANIA MCGRATH ALONE
Godfrey tackles the plot against xir’s dear friend and ally
VICE Media is the mausoleum that cool built
The company is now just another dreary enforcer of online norms
