Author: James Bowman

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

. . . But nowhere near great — From The New Criterion of April, 2023

Media finger-pointing has gone utterly haywire. They think we don’t notice. — From The New Criterion of March, 2023

Hating Donald Trump seems to have provided left-wing progressives with a precedent for hating anyone they disagree with — From The New Criterion of February, 2023