It was Ellie Kemper this time; next time, it’ll be someone else. What matters is not the details of these stories: it’s the Twitter sidebar | Continue reading
Like many activists on the left right now, Lee Savio Beers has decided to turn mask-wearing into a religion instead of a precaution | Continue reading
Florida governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday to impose fines on Big Tech companies that de0platform political candidates | Continue reading
The Biden administration’s needlessly reinstated travel ban blocks the healthy, vaccinated relatives of healthy, vaccinated citizens | Continue reading
Even if a company has backups, DarkSide threatens to publish confidential or sensitive information if the ransom isn’t paid | Continue reading
If a woman in academia is branded a TERF, all bets are off; it is considered reasonable to publicly hound and humiliate them | Continue reading
Our society’s fascination with psychology has a dark side: many half-baked ideas are being enthusiastically spread despite a lack of evidence | Continue reading
As the wealth of the second dot-com boom crowded out the middle class, junkies floated to San Francisco from around the US | Continue reading
Cannabis evangelists are well versed in whataboutery. What about tobacco? (Well, quite.) What about alcohol? What about coffee? | Continue reading
The Alaska press event was a debacle that will build a perception that the US is returning to Carter-like incompetence in foreign policy | Continue reading
Elon Musk’s work is performed in concert with others, but you cannot achieve all that he has by virtue of being very rich and extremely online | Continue reading
It was always the sense that masks were mandated from which these states’ governors were garnering their reputations for COVID strictness | Continue reading
There is a reason Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called her 791-page bill, stuffed as it is with her favorite election-related changes, HR 1 | Continue reading
Wallstreetbets is a online group in which millions of participants discuss stock and options trading. It is notable for its profane nature | Continue reading
Short-sellers have already lost an estimated $5 billion on GameStop this month — and that will grow so long as the share price goes up | Continue reading
Before the election, most American conservatives were in favor of standing up to Big Tech — but most were also against changing the laws | Continue reading
Few people spend much time investigating scientific cold cases, perhaps because we usually take the Whig view that progress is inevitable | Continue reading
A whole subfield of artificial intelligence has sprung up with the express purpose of, among other things, ‘debiasing’ algorithms | Continue reading
Why are Chinese state accounts allowed to spread conspiracies and misinformation about the global pandemic they created on Twitter? | Continue reading
To say out-loud that you find the results of the 2020 election odd is to invite derision. You must be a crank. Well, count me one | Continue reading
The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk reviewed. We need to give more respect to the giants of the Middle Ages | Continue reading
The Book of Charlatans by Jamal al-Din Abd al-Rahim al-Jawbari reviewed. The Book of Charlatans wasn’t the first or last of its kind | Continue reading
Yelp is introducing a rudimentary anti-racist social credit system that subjects business owners to the vagaries of the culture wars | Continue reading
Adrenochrome fascinates the QAnoners less as a drug than for its role in ritual: drug-crazed Luciferian elites sacrificing young children on an altar | Continue reading
Renaissance and Baroque Art: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg reviewed. If all this seems a lot to get your head around, that’s art for you | Continue reading
Clinical diagnosis is seemingly a secondary consideration in the face of mass testing. All you require is a positive PCR test | Continue reading
Brahms hides behind a humor as impenetrable as his beard. But with Mozart, you get the whole personality — candid, perceptive and irresistibly alive | Continue reading
There are many other texts — some recently published and some more and less forgotten classics — that offer alternative, nuanced visions of race in the US | Continue reading
The internet is not a private place, but news outlets have decided that it’s up to them to determine when someone loses their right to anonymity | Continue reading
Lockdown skeptic Toby Young and skepticism skeptic Matt Labash debate whether lockdown is the most catastrophic policy error in human history | Continue reading
The National Association of Black Journalists has canceled its virtual panel tomorrow called ‘The Rise of Misinformation’, which was sponsored by Huawei | Continue reading
An FBI wanted poster called Rosenberg armed and extremely dangerous, and the Bureau wasn’t wrong. Purses held semi-automatic pistols | Continue reading
We do not know how many lives ventilators could or will save. It seems that at least two-thirds of attempts to stave off death with their use will fail | Continue reading
A senior Trump administration official says China forced Italy to buy back the same PPE supply it had donated to China earlier in the outbreak | Continue reading
The least China could do is introduce higher food safety regulations, eradicate all wet markets and ban the wildlife trade, once and for all | Continue reading
John McAfee, unbound by traditional campaign tactics and on the run from an oppressive deep state, was the last best hope for freedom loving Americans. | Continue reading
I was told to ‘go back to where I came from’ by my fellow high-schoolers after we’d moved from one town in Connecticut to another town in Connecticut | Continue reading
A happy by-product of fighting to defend your friends is letting them know something that you might otherwise forget to tell them | Continue reading
In October, I received a 30-day ban for ‘hate speech’ after I shared a link to my Spectator column titled ‘Rednecks are the least racist people in America’ | Continue reading
The pink dust of Qasem Soleimani hadn’t settled before the mainstream media were shouting about Donald Trump having started World War III | Continue reading
Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 percent of the world’s population | Continue reading
A source tells Cockburn that House Democrats trying to impeach Donald Trump have no less than seven intelligence whistleblowers | Continue reading
The first civilization to dispense with the arts, America is now an experiment in barbarian democracy. Only Hollywood has happy endings | Continue reading
The support for Noah Carl, both in the academic community and beyond, has been considerable. A counter-petition has been signed by over 600 scholars | Continue reading
Decca: The Supreme Record Company: The Story of Decca Records 1929-2019 by Daryl Easlea and Darren Henley reviewed. A history of the great label | Continue reading
For character studies of the personalities, motivations, and incentives you will encounter in the world of business, the novel offers essential insight | Continue reading
Almost 70 percent of Americans, labeled ‘the exhausted majority’, are harboring intense feelings of ideological isolation. They’re politically homeless | Continue reading
I have loved Period Piece, Gwen Raverat’s memoir of growing up in Cambridge in the 1890s ever since I first read it 20 years ago | Continue reading