The best of the Democrats are those who have yet to figure out that their party’s contempt for the white working classes and those who have lost the most in the globalized economy is not a bug but a feature — From The New Criterion of June, 2024
Certain kinds of hatred are permitted and even encourged by those who inveigh against — and legislate against — “hate crimes” — From The New Criterion of May, 2024
Where it’s always been: among the media and the Democrats who specialize in outrage — From The New Criterion of April, 2024
What better cover could there be for someone threatening democracy than charging someone else with threatening democracy? — From The New Criterion of March, 2024
When is a revolution not a revolution? When the media turn a blind eye to it — From The New Criterion of February, 2024
How does a cosmopolitan class of over- and mis-educated pseudo-aristocrats who have more sense of solidarity with their counterparts in other countries than with their fellow-countrymen come to be called a “meritocracy”? — From The New Criterion of January, 2024
Those who say or write: “What did you think decolonization looked like?” imply that they, at least, already knew that decolonization looked like the massacre of October 7, and that they are fine with it.— From The New Criterion of December, 2023
Every time the Justice Department or the media discovers a new Enemy of the People, it turns out to be someone having second thoughts about the left-wing orthodoxies that the media and the Justice Department alike are now dedicated to enforcing — From The New Criterion of November, 2023
Everything in our world became political only when there was no longer anything deemed honorable, or shameful, by everybody — From The New Criterion of October, 2023
Perpetually crying scandal against those who oppose them is the new ideologues’ route to power, and the media appear to be on board all the way to the end of the line — From The New Criterion of September, 2023
Have Mr Overton’s windows of intellectual opportunity become Wittgenstein’s fly-bottle? Is there any way out? — From The New Criterion of June, 2023
For banks, as for all of us now, “disinformation” has become a new way of life. — From The New Criterion of May, 2023
