If only the Pulitzer Board would read the books they honor, such as Brian Goldstone's 'There Is No Place for Us,' they would know the common—most obvious—causes of homelessness.
Category: Ivory Tower Iconoclast
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The Medium Is the Miasma
Left-wing media bias is harmful and addictive, but the delivery system is far worse than the drug.
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The 14th Amendment Is Not a Suicide Pact
Birthright citizenship is not what the framers of the 14th Amendment envisioned. It is time to scrap it!
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Our Elites and Their Body Counts
Truth is the first casualty of both war and pedophile sex rings. Our elites care more about their body counts.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Euphemisms
Jessica Mitford was a pioneer in exposing how hucksters weaponize euphemisms to deceive the public. From the funeral industry to Zohran Mamdani, this tactic persists.
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The Creedal Nation Myth
For creedalists, “we,” that is, Americans—as a distinct people—don’t exist. Not now, and not ever.
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The Man in the Arena
Daniel Penny, the Marine Corps veteran who choked a menacing fellow subway rider to death in May 2023, needs no introduction thanks to Al Sharpton’s grandstanding, a complicitous media, and a gaggle of personal injury lawyers determined to ruin his life.
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Singin’ the Publishing Blues
I like a traveling circus. The American Historical Association’s annual conference periodically sets up its tent at the New York Hilton. Since I live nearby, I subject myself to its clown car of characters every half decade. But this year, I saw the confab’s book fair as an opportunity to introduce myself to the editors...
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Simple Answers for Hateful Minds
When did Americans become the stormtroopers of irrational simplification? Not a moment passes when a tweet, Facebook post, or Instagram picture doesn’t rip through our amber waves of grain and drive a social justice warrior to attack the nearest deplorable. Take this recent example from The New York Times of a mentally deranged reductionist. In...
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NY Cops Retreat From the Heat
The English actor Beatrice Lillie had no inkling of 2019’s sweltering summer heat in 1931 when she debuted Noël Coward’s ditty “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” in the Broadway musical The Third Little Show. The song’s mocking refrain, “Mad dogs and Englishmen/ Go out in the midday sun,” expressed a sentiment normal Americans subscribed to during...
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Five Modest Swamp-Draining Proposals
How many times will naive voters fall for the old “when elected I will shrink the federal government” lie? If our Solipsist-in-Chief can’t “drain the swamp,” you can bet your last VHS Jazzercise tape that myriad new laws, middle-class tax cuts, and feeble protests will never stem the federal Leviathan’s metastasis. With that reality in...