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Online mockery compelled the AP to revoke the bit about “the French,” but it held fast on calling for the elimination of “the poor,” even though the King James Bible insists that “ye have the poor with you always.”
John J. Miller • Opinion | A Newspaper Taught Hemingway to Write
Jeff Sessions made two speeches in which he said that colleges were creating a generation of “sanctimonious, sensitive, supercilious snowflakes” and that campuses were an “echo chamber of political correctness and homogenous thought, a shelter for fragile egos.” During one of those speeches, the crowd began to chant “lock her up” in reference to
... See moreNesrine Malik • We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom
The audience laughed in Coulter’s face on Bill Maher’s show when she claimed in June 2015 that of all the Republican candidates Trump had the best chance of winning the presidency.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Walter Duranty is now largely considered a media outlier or an anomaly, a reporter whose character flaws slipped through the editorial cracks of his institution. But the reality is that Duranty fits a prominent pattern at the Times of a star reporter whose celebrity enables him or her to commit journalistic malfeasance in plain sight of his
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
The reality is that members of the American left have, whether they like it or not, become the new conservatives. At least in economic policy, they are usually the defenders of the status quo. In contrast, some of the so-called “conservatives” are the radicals seeking major change; at a recent public event, I heard two African American
... See moreTyler Cowen • The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better: A Penguin eSpecial from Dutton
A lot of money and lobbying goes into that. As questions about the impunity of white supremacists and abusive trolls online have become more frequent over the past decade, Twitter’s lobbying spend in Washington has increased. By 2020, Twitter was spending more in the first three months of the year than it had in all of 2014. In 2019, the company
... See moreNesrine Malik • We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom
Clinton’s treatment suggested a much larger cultural ill, one that had less to do with the specifics of her personality and more to do with the enduring structures of patriarchy—structures that had bearing on more than just the woman standing on the stage asking you to vote for her. It was one thing to dislike Clinton. It was quite another to
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