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The most inconsequential midterm election since 2010, and the pending return of the pen and the phone
Despite the Democrat’s big win and the hyperbolic claims every election cycle that this is the most important in history, not much will change over the next two years if recent history is any indication. Whether you call it a “thumping” like President George W. Bush in 2006 or a “shellacking” like Barack Obama in…
If Hamlet were Macbeth, the irony and the contradiction at the heart of Shakespearean morality
Hamlet leaves a trail of bodies in his wake not because he is a monster like Macbeth, but because he is less of one, displaying hesitancy at the thought of killing his uncle for whatever reason as most of us probably would in a similar circumstance. If Hamlet were Macbeth, the tragedy never would have…
Flying cars and failing trains, life lessons in the government versus the private sector
The irony of progressives sneering at Mr. Musk for doing what has never been done before while the governments they control and on whose behalf they advocate for cannot get the job done on time or budget should be obvious. Last month, Elon Musk stunned the world with the Tesla Roadster, a sleek, two seater…
Defining radicalism downward and the schizophrenia of the modern left
What are we to make of the socialist hero of New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, suddenly becoming a moderate in the eyes of at least one progressive analyst? Once upon a time, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was a socialist hero, whose upstart campaign showed how New York City and potentially the entire nation was hungry…
From Friday the 13th to Crystal Lake, the seemingly endless longevity of the horror franchise
Whatever the lack of logical consistency, the range and some might even say originality of a franchise that essentially revolves around horny, pot smoking, beer drinking teams being stalked and killed can only be described as astounding. In early 1979, Sean S. Cunningham, inspired by the success of John Carpenter’s Halloween a year earlier, placed…
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