2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.
In the old days feminists would mock women who depended so much on a man. Today if the man is the government, not so much. A man who opens the door for you is a Neanderthal; a bureaucrat who pays for...
What a contrast, Trump is feisty but flexible. Obama, cool but rigid. But he had no reason to bend. The media already bought into his shtick. His giddy fan base ate up every white-coated lie.
Travel like a pro, not like a hobo. That's my motto.
There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry.
Before language, cavemen simply grunted, and then they used the club. Communication changed that. It's the mechanism that created civilization and prevents its own destruction.
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.
There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.
Terror, married to technology and accommodated by progress in travel, has turned evil individuals into traveling ballistic missiles.
True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer communi...
As a New Yorker, this is what you do: you confront, jab, and slap, sometimes wrongly, then smile and forget about it.
The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.
My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.
As P. J. O’Rourke once observed, no woman daydreams about being swept off her feet by a liberal.
Sean Penn mourned the death of the fifty-eight-year-old socialist creep. Sean wrote in a statement sent to the Hollywood Reporter: Today the people of the United States lost a friend it never knew it...
But it’s no surprise that when someone truly awful dies, the cool break out in reverence. Which is what happened when Hugo Chávez croaked. On that day in March 2013, we saw a parade of misty-eyed cele...