Ethnic Diversity Improves Education? The Fisher Decision Is Not Based on...
As NR’s editors noted last night, the Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of ethnic preferences in university admissions, concluding that the educational benefits of diversity are a...
View ArticleHillary’s State Department Calendar Has ‘Scores’ of Events Scrubbed
File this one under unsurprising.This morning, the Associated Press released a report detailing that Hillary Clinton’s official State Department calendar is missing “scores” of events from her tenure...
View ArticleClinton Campaign Rushes to Dismiss Brexit/Trump Comparisons
The Clinton campaign spun into damage-control mode in the wake of yesterday’s shock vote by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, insisting that the populist wave that sunk Prime Minister...
View ArticleA Natural GOP-Convention Speaker: Michael Moore
Traditionally, Michael Moore has gone to Democratic conventions. In 2004, Jimmy Carter asked him to sit with him in the presidential box. He said to Moore — according to Moore — “There is no one I’d...
View ArticleDonald Trump and His ‘Very High’ IQ (‘One of the Highest’)
Some people have the quaint idea that Trump should release his tax returns. I wouldn’t wait up nights on this one. But I was thinking of something else: What about his IQ returns?Trump makes a lot of...
View ArticleBrexit: The Polling Illusion
Rupert Darwall has a very fine article over on the home page on the way in which David Cameron’s handling of the referendum campaign opened the door to Brexit. It’s worth reading in full, but this, in...
View ArticleI Guess We Can’t Say That Republicans ‘Never Win’…
Brexit Mania is in full swing — Hot Takes! Get Your Hot Takes!— but don’t let that distract you from last night’s other bit of drama. The Hill reports:With Republicans down to their final out, Rep. Tom...
View ArticleWhat If The Orlando Shooter Wasn't Gay After All?
In the wake of any atrocity, there are certain narratives that get cast in stone with the public (most people, quite rationally, don’t read multiple versions of the same story for weeks examining what...
View ArticleKrauthammer's Take: ‘In Ten Years You Could Have a Britain that Is Only Wales...
Charles Krauthammer argues that the Brexit vote could spell the end of the United Kingdom in its current form: This is a problem that began long before the immigration wave. This is a result of what...
View ArticleWhat a Reader/Listener Wants
I think that readers should concentrate on Trump vs. Hillary, Brexit, the Iranian-led armageddon, and so on. But they keep saying, “No, no, we want ballet!” Okay, okay. I have a couple of posts over at...
View ArticleThe Globalist
In an interviewpublished yesterday at Bloomberg, Trump was asked whether he would issue mass deportations of illegal immigrants. “No, I would not call it mass deportations,” he said.That may reflect...
View ArticleTrumpites for Obama?
Yesterday, Donald Trump said, “President Obama has mass-deported vast numbers of people — the most ever — and it’s never reported. I think people are going to find that I have not only the best...
View ArticleThe Voices from the Airport Road
Believe it or not, Joseph Kabila, over in the Congo, is term-limited. Technically speaking. Constitutionally speaking. He is supposed to serve (“serve”) two terms only. And his second term expires at...
View ArticleMonday links
Video: Pulling a loose tooth with a live squirrel, and lots of bonus squirrel links.Which Is It: Prescription Drug or Tolkien Elf?The Great Vampire Epidemic of the 1720s.Today is Helen Keller’s...
View ArticleAdvice for the Present from the Past
A quote I happened upon this weekend:What is becoming plain are ever bigger collectivizations. There are, for example, the European unions, the union of the Islamic world, and the attempt to create a...
View ArticleThe U.S. House and China
One of the grisliest subjects on earth — along with North Korea, Syria, etc. — is organ harvesting in China. Very few want to discuss it. Two years ago, Ethan Gutmann wrote an explosive book called The...
View ArticleIs there a Future for Freedom in America?
Over the weekend I happened upon a letter from some decades ago where Dorothy Day was encouraging a journalist to write about the remarkable Little Sisters of the Poor. As Mary Eberstadt puts it in her...
View ArticleStopping Bork, the Political Triumph of Last 50 Years
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy–who took the Supreme Court seat intended for Robert Bork–has loyally served cultural liberalism during his tenure, both as a shield and a sword.His cultural impact...
View Article‘I think he stands for an evolving process’
Newt Gingrich was on Fox News Sunday and, once again, mounted an impressively deft defense of Donald Trump, all things considered. But this line, on Trump’s constant changes of position, wasn’t one of...
View ArticleHell Is Scarsdale — and Alresford, England Apparently
The only good thing about this temper-tantrum of a piece is that the author reveals that he didn’t manage to vote on Brexit:Brexit is the result of a deep nihilism among the British public. This...
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