World Opinion and Editorial
The State at the End of the Universe
Written by Daniel Greenfield
The current round of class warfare taking place in this country can hardly be called that because it is taking place within a single class. This is no great conflict between the construct of a 1 and 99 percent, this is a civil war taking place within the 1 percent. The very name of the Buffett Rule ...
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Friday Afternoon Roundup - The Dead Baby Media
Written by Daniel Greenfield
If the text on that one is too small for you, it's a CNN piece headlined, "Why the Syrian regime is killing babies." There's not much to add to that. The Syrian regime may be killing babies, but CNN killed journalism. With some help from the New York Times, the Washington Post and the BBC. ...
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Nocturne in Black and White
Written by Daniel Greenfield
The respected black commentator and philosopher Thomas Sowell has describedthe growing toll of black-on-white violence as a race war. I would take issue with that only because "war" implies a level of organization that supersedes that of the flash mobs. Most of the riot organizers have moved ...
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In the Sixteenth Year of Obama
Written by Daniel Greenfield
A Scientific Romance of the Year 2024
In the sixteenth year of Obama, Marc and Julie obtained a carbon pass and set off on a light rail journey in a comfortable semi-transparent carriage traveling at a top speed of 30 kilometers per hour whose motive power came entirely from sunshine. As it was a ...
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Friday Afternoon Roundup - Spot the Narrative
Written by Daniel Greenfield
Wouldn't it be terrible if we lived in some kind of dictatorship where a tiny group of powerful men controlled the broadcast media and used it to justify abuses of power by the government? Isn't it great that we live in a country where we don't have to worry about that kind of thing?
Yeah me ...
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America: A Rogue Nation
Written by Daniel Greenfield
The debate over the Iraq War that was held in the United Nations, and in academic and foreign policy circles, could be broken down as the question whether it was Iraq or the United States that was the rogue nation. On the one hand, Iraq had defied multiple UN resolutions, but so had the United ...
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The Legacy of Vidal Sassoon
Written by Robert S. Wistrich
I first became aware of Vidal Sassoon’s rise to prominence about 45 years ago as a young student at Cambridge University. It was the age of Beatlemania, the heyday of the fashion designer Mary Quant and her mini-skirts, of the celebrity photographer David Bailey, the spirit of Carnaby Street and ...
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All Things to All People
Written by Daniel Greenfield
President Clinton was, as we all know, the nation's first black president. Now Newsweekhas declared Obama to be America's first gay president which means the first gay president will probably have to settle for being called the first alien president and, after that, the first alien president ...
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How to Write About Israel
Written by Daniel Greenfield
Writing about Israel is a booming field. No news agency, be it ever so humble, can avoid embedding a few correspondents and a dog's tail of stringers into Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, to sit in cafes clicking away on their laptops, meeting up with leftist NGO's and the oppressed Muslim of the week.
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