Theodore Dalrymple in City Journal reviewing Paul Hollander's From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship said (a long but necessary quotation; the emphasis…

Stream: The Latest Inanity: Science Can Measure Which Speech is Violent If academic psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett is right, we should be able to find the precise combination of words…

Here's the abstract from the peer-reviewed (so you know everything in it must be true and sworn to by every rational human being now and forever) paper "A volatile discourse…

Stream: Answering Ben Santer's Trickle-Down Ignorance on Climate Climatologist Ben Santer says living in the "darkness of the Trump administration's scientific ignorance" is like the time he nearly killed himself…

I do not joke nor jest. In New York City, "You can be fined for not calling people 'ze' or 'hir,' if that's the pronoun they demand that you use."…

This post originally ran 1 July 2011. The authors never responded to my offer. Democrats! I beseech thee! Do not let thy children fly the flag on the Glorious Fourth!…

This post originally ran 3 November 2014. Reader Professor Doctor Moritz Heene writes: I read your post on CIs with great interest, especially this one: https://www.wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=11862, see "Thinner is better":…