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The Self-Enforcing Police State

Feature Article by , August 4, 2017

Lena Dunham had a delayed flight and was walking through the airport when she overheard two American Airlines employees having an unapproved private conversation about transgender children. So she did what you naturally do when you are a well-known “liberal” who believes in free speech and distrusts big corporations: she ratted them out to their […]

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Donald Trump Is Boring

Commentary by , June 30, 2017

There is a crisis in American politics. The crisis is that Donald Trump is boring. Normally, I wouldn’t mind a boring president. In fact, I prefer boring presidents. I like less drama, fewer scandals, and more focus on the issues—on actual legislative action and foreign policy decisions. But that’s not the good kind of boring […]

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But He Fights (Against Liberty)

Note by , April 3, 2017

My readers may have noticed that I am occasionally wrong in my predictions about politics, including such little things as who is going to win the presidential primaries or who is going to win the general election. But the more important part of my job is to figure out who ought to win, so I […]

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Liberalism Is Dead, Long Live Liberalism

Feature Article by , December 20, 2016

Top Stories of the Year: #5 It’s time to count down the top five stories of the year, looking back at the big events of 2016 and reviewing my coverage of them. We’ll start the countdown with #5, a continuation of a long-running story, but one that reached new milestones this year: the ongoing death […]

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The Zuckerberg News Bureau

Feature Article by , May 15, 2016

A report on the inner workings of Facebook’s “Trending Topics” headlines exposes how Facebook contractors routinely manipulated the news feed to exclude topics and news sources of interest to people on the right. Here’s how a whistleblower put it: I’d come on shift and I’d discover that CPAC or Mitt Romney or Glenn Beck or […]

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The Old Regime and the Internet Revolution

Feature Article by , February 19, 2016

On Friday, Twitter suspended the account of Robert Stacy McCain, a conservative blogger and dogged critic of feminism, apparently without warning or explanation. This has led, in true Twitter fashion, to protests under the hashtag #FreeStacy. Only a few weeks earlier, Twitter had announced the creation of a “Trust and Safety Council,” to which it […]

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I Have Seen the Future, and It Is (Shudder) Canadian

Commentary by , August 4, 2015

I have seen the future, and it is (shudder) Canadian. It’s a bit fashionable to poke gentle fun at our national Northern suburb, especially for those of us on the right, who are used to viewing Canada is a warning of where we’ll be if we go a little farther to the left. I’m not […]

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How to Talk to a Non-Leftist the Other 364 Days of the Year

Feature Article by , July 3, 2015

They’ve done it again. The same sort of people who thought it would be a great idea to ruin Thanksgiving by spouting political propaganda to their relatives have now offered helpful hints on how to be a jerk by boring your family about ObamaCare over the Fourth of July weekend. If this is something you […]

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All Must Serve the Capitol

Feature Article by , May 13, 2015

The deadly Amtrak derailment this week spawned a frenzy of sleazy opportunism on social media as lefties rushed to declare—before any evidence of the cause of the accident was available—that it clearly showed the need for more federal billions to subsidize Amtrak. As the official investigation has released actual information, it seems likely that the […]

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The Twitter Manifesto of Ben Trovato

Feature Article by , January 12, 2015

It was inevitable. Once I dragged Ben Trovato—the mysterious King of the Narrative—into public notice, it was only a matter of time before he started his own Twitter feed. Incidentally, I did a little research and found that there are a couple of different folks out there operating under the name “Ben Trovato”—a humor columnist […]

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