The third dreadful assassination attempt against President Donald Trump was an opportunity to assess where we stand on the question of political violence. In this decade, the media has demonstrated a profound double standard. The horrible riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was a ...
The ranks of would-be presidential assassins are a cavalcade of losers, yet the latest shooter who set out to murder Donald Trump -- the man who opened fire at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Sunday -- turns out to have an elite educational background. Cole Allen is a graduate of CalTech, the prestigious California Institute of Technology. In the most recent City Journal college rankings, CalTech took the top spot for "value added to career," but languished at a dismal 95th place for "student ideological diversity." The rankings noted the school's "disproportionately ...
On the last day for candidates to file for partisan office, I stood at the edge of the sidewalk at the entrance to the Montague Post Office with a clipboard, collecting signatures so a candidate could get on the ballot—so voters would have a choice. A man in a ball cap slowed, eyeing my ...
The article in The Washington Post pulled no punches. "You're probably washing your pants wrong," the headline informed me, with no small degree of smugness. "Here's how to do it right." As a woman and a parent, I am quite accustomed to being told that I'm doing something wrong, so, being thusly addressed, I did not immediately take umbrage. Perhaps The Washington Post is right, I thought. Perhaps, as is true with the way that I grocery shop, cook, feed and clothe my children, exercise, do my hair/makeup, walk, talk and breathe, there IS something wrong with the way that I wash my ...
Is robbing the Louvre a good idea? Left-wing influencer Hasan Piker and New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino did a much-discussed video interview with The New York Times on the ethics of theft, and came out four-square in favor of stealing things, including artwork from the Louvre. They consider larceny an appropriate response to the inherent corruption and injustice of the American capitalist system. The merits of this position aside, it's not clear why it justifies stealing paintings or sculptures from a museum owned and operated by the government of France. When asked about the ...
The past few days have featured the vice president of the United States lecturing the pope on morality and church doctrine; Sean Hannity making it official that he worships at the Church of Trump; Pete Hegseth quoting made-up verses from "Pulp Fiction" as if they were actual scripture; and Trump styling himself as Jesus Christ. A few years ago, one might have wondered how these acts of contempt toward Christianity would go down with the religious right, but after 10 years of cultishness, it would be foolish to expect many defections. Still, as someone who came up in the conservative ...
