This article will be brought to you by the letter “M.” It will feature meteor-malefactors, malign monarchs, and moral masturbation. First up: meteor-malefactors. That’s the term I give to criminals whose serious misdeeds flash through the media like a meteor before disappearing into oblivion. Why does this happen? It’s very simple: because meteor-malefactors reveal the […]
“Preach equality, practice hierarchy.” That’s the hidden core commandment of leftism. It’s mendacious and malevolent, but so what? Like a clown offering to shake with one hand while concealing a cream-pie behind his back in the other, the left have defeated the right with it again and again, decade after decade. “We believe in equality!” […]
Regicide — the killing of a king — is at the heart of chess. But most people don’t know that. When a victorious player announces “Checkmate,” he’s really saying “Shah mat,” which traditionally means “The king is dead” in Persian. Slater self-slaughters The Trotskyist libertarian Tom Slater has recently got it the other way around. […]
Malignant tumors. In the modern West, there are two competing ways of responding to them. The first way is practised by leftists. It involves praising tumors, telling them what a vital and valued contribution they make to the body, and refusing to let tumors be criticized in any way. For example, if lung cancer or […]
Giftzwerg is a wonderful little German word. It’s pronounced “gift-tsvairk” and it literally means “poison-dwarf.” German-speakers use it of someone who is small but spiteful, especially when that person is spiteful because they’re small. But it was the Anglophone Charles Dickens who created perhaps the greatest Giftzwerg of all time in Daniel Quilp, the evil […]
Thank Heavens for Rakib Ehsan! This insightful commentator on modern Western politics and culture has a Bangladeshi body and a British brain. 100%, innit! He’s a former “research fellow” for the Henry Jackson Society, a neo-conservative lobbying group, and now writes for everyone from the trans-skeptic Trotskyists at Spiked to the monarchophile mensches at the […]
Here’s a nerdy question that packs a powerful political punch: What is the etymology of “slave”? Few people know the answer and that’s just the way leftists like it, because the answer derails one of their central projects. And the answer is this: The word “slave” is derived from the word “Slav,” because the pagans […]
