Faux fascisti

Faux fascisti

The word “fascist” has long since been drained of all semantic content, and is now just a tribal shibboleth for the “woke” left. Meanwhile, was Hitler really bad enough to prefigure someone as bad as President Trump? — From The New Criterion of December, 2024

Irony deficiency

Irony deficiency

The ever self-righteous media need to make up their minds: is there “no place for violence in politics” or, perhaps, just one place, centered on their current bogeyman — From The New Criterion of November, 2024

Ear’s-breadth escape

Ear’s-breadth escape

On the media’s desperate attempts to minimize or dismiss any suggestion of the heroic in Donald Trump’s defiance of his would-be assassin — from The New Criterion of September, 2024

Vision Correction

Vision Correction

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

Pieces of hate

Pieces of hate

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

Getting away with it

Getting away with it

What better cover could there be for someone threatening democracy than charging someone else with threatening democracy? — From The New Criterion of March, 2024

Meritless meritocracy

Meritless meritocracy

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

Killing with kindness

Killing with kindness

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