Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. If you’ve seen the 2003 movie Monster, which won Charlize Theron an Oscar for Best
Now, Vienna
Although I’ve lived in Europe since 1998 and traveled widely on the continent ever since, I’d never set foot in Austria until November of two years ago, when I
Ballot Box USA
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In the presidential election of 2016, everything worked – miraculously, but just
French Outrage
On October 2, as I reported here recently, French president Emmanuel Macron gave a major speech – well, a long one, anyway – in which he vowed, after years of
Linking Farrakhan to – Trump?
In a recent editorial, Tablet, the 11-year-old online magazine that calls itself “a new read on Jewish life,” warned that Louis Farrakhan, the poisonously anti
The Libertarian Betrayal
Don’t laugh, but once upon a time I was so naïve that I thought libertarians were really about liberty. I even thought that they had an important raison
Big Promises From Macron
Beset by Communist riots, the China plague, and a campaign-season spike in Trump Derangement Syndrome, Americans have rarely been so disinclined to look abroad
Three Cheers for ‘Land of Hope’
We are living through a year when the consequences of more than a generation of poor parenting and terrible education can be observed, in all their odiousness
It’s Not Him. It’s You
I know you. You’re somebody I know well or slightly or only as a public figure, and you hate Trump. No, you’re not out rioting and destroying and burning
An Open Letter to Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Dear Julia, To begin with, though I found Watching Ellie stunningly bad, though The New Adventures of Old Christine left a bad taste in my mouth, and
Canceling British Pride
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. The first thing to know is that the BBC was never objective. In the 1930s, when
Do Polish Lives Matter?
The other day, during a discussion of the current race-war madness, a guest on Anthony Cumia’s podcast asserted with confidence that the answer to the whole
Is Racism in America Worse than in Nazi Germany?
As Shelby Steele has famously pointed out, there are two basic approaches that black American public figures take when addressing whites. There are “
Olivia de Havilland’s Triumph
There’s a scene in the splendid 1955 movie Not as a Stranger in which Luke (Robert Mitchum), a medical student, walks out of a movie theater with Kristina (
Learning About Racism From the Smithsonian
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” That’s George Orwell in 1984, of course. But the picture those words conjure up seems
Quitting the Times
I wrote my first book review for the New York Times in 1990. It was about a grim memoir, in the Face of Death, by a dying Swiss jurist called Peter Noll. Over
A Cultural Hijacking
Never underestimate the determination of left-wing ideologues to take over social, cultural, and political institutions – or the willingness of fools and
Purifying Publishing
Of America’s most powerful and prominent cultural institutions, it’s quick work naming those that aren’t entirely left-wing satrapies. TV? Fox News, although
If You’re White, You’re Racist. Period.
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. At a time when violent radicals are attacking America and its institutions as
Meet Your New Commissar
Among the byproducts of the worldwide mayhem and destruction carried out in solemn memory of career criminal George Floyd is that books on racism are selling
Blitz: A Poem
Blitz: A Poem By Bruce Bawer First, the title. It’s called Blitz: How Trump Will Smash the Left and Win. The author: David Horowitz. America
David Horowitz’s Thumbs-Up for Trump
[Order David Horowitz’s new book, Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win – just released on June 2 by Humanix Books: Order Here.] Three years ago, the
Hillary Without Bill
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In his 1976 novel The Alteration, Kingsley Amis imagined a contemporary Britain in
A Man in Full
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. I guess I became aware of Dan Crenshaw, the freshman congressman from Texas, when
America’s Gay Hero
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. If you’d told me a couple of decades ago that leading conservative commentators