Forecast: There will be a lot of punching
As I wrote a few days ago, the “Unite the Right” rally in Washington DC over the weekend united some two dozen white supremacists for a complete fizzer. By contrast, …
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Welcome to the new anti-hate hate
Lots has been happening in the United States in the last few days, though if I were relying only on the mainstream media to inform me the mental picture I …
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Gone, gone, going… How the media disappears the news
Three stories over the past few days should have been huge. Instead, two of them made just a passing blip on the radar and the third one is now on …
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Left academic: “If We Silence Hate Speech, Will We Silence Resistance?”
One of the most delightful recent political developments to watch is radicals and progressives waking up with a rude start to the fact that the cultural rules they have created …
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Right-wing censors versus left-wing book burners
Won’t somebody please think of the Constitutional children? By which I mean the Amendments, and especially the 1st one. Free speech is under attack, both in theory and in practice. …
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Lest we forget the press
The closing para from an op-ed by a Notre Dame ethics professor Joseph Holt, published by CNN (“Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely the author’s.” Yeah, in a technical …
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Museum folds like a cheap t-shirt
Or a $19.97 long sleeve. Yesterday, a journalism website Poynter brought to everyone’s attention that a gift shop at Newseum (“the interactive news museum in Washington, D.C.”) is selling Donald Trump …
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Not-breaking news: NYT hires another leftist racist
The Newspaper of Record has been in a tiny spot of bother lately, on the account of its decision to bring onto its editorial board an exciting new voice of …
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The myth of political civility
The two statements below are equally true: 1. The Left’s Trump Derangement Syndrome, from screaming at the sky to the now routine comparisons with Nazi Germany, seems particularly hysterical and …
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Dear Karl Marx, happy birthday from The New York Times
Karl Marx will be celebrating his 200th birthday on 5 May (as much as you can celebrate in hell), but “The New York Times” opinion pages have already presented the …
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