Where the Alt-Right Came From
A coalition of white nationalists, anti-Semites, 4chan users, academics of ill repute, and extremely bored young men has congealed into a movement called the alt-right.
Read MoreA coalition of white nationalists, anti-Semites, 4chan users, academics of ill repute, and extremely bored young men has congealed into a movement called the alt-right.
Read MoreAs of Sunday, Apple is still resisting the government order that it provide the FBI with a way of bypassing security on terrorist Syed Farook’s iPhone. Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. predicts the government will win out in the end, but it seems that Apple has scored the moral victory.
Read MoreLast Thursday night, National Review, the quintessential publication of the American conservative movement, published a symposium called “Conservatives against Trump.” Twenty-two writers contributed brief, principled pieces on why the right-of-center movement should not embrace Trump, even if he’s currently popular among a large and frankly embarrassing part of the Republican Party’s base.
Read MoreLast week, the group of Hamilton College activists known as “the Movement” released a lengthy list of demands to almost universal ridicule. Few Hamilton students respect the Movement’s childish and arrogant calls for public apologies, special attention, and, of course, money. Our college administrators, meanwhile, rushed to validate the protesters’ demands and feelings.
Read MoreStudents and faculty at Yale University and the University of Missouri have spent the past few days demanding resignations and strong-arming student reporters, all in the name of justice, equality, and sensitivity.
Read MoreOn the day that Michel Houellebecq’s provocative new novel Submission was released in France, two Islamists murdered eleven people at the office of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
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