The Point By Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
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Republican Men More Likely Than Democratic Men to Feel Very Masculine
Daniel Greenfield
A different kind of identity politics. The Survey Center on American Life has a new survey, “The Growing Gender Divide in American Life”. -Republican men are far more likely than Democratic men to identify as traditionally masculine. A majority (54 percent) of Republican men say they are very manly or masculine, compared to one-third (33…
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Senate Dems Want Hearings Over Threat of Free Speech on Twitter
Daniel Greenfield
Democrats enjoyed a largely compliant Big Tech cartel that was eager to censor conservatives. Now that might change, at least on Twitter, they’re reacting with the grace and dignity that tinpot fascists are always known for. Some key Senate Democrats are considering calling Elon Musk to testify on his plans to remake Twitter, amid broader…
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Fauci’s Pandemic Flip-Flop
Daniel Greenfield
Within a few years, Fauci went from an idol to a fallen idol. So in some ways, it really doesn’t matter what he says. But it’s striking that Fauci’s message remains so contradictory after all this time of practically living on TV and doing interviews with everybody. “Here we are. It’s the end of April.…
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Obama Ambassador Charged With Illegally Serving Qatar
Daniel Greenfield
From Al Jazeera to Brookings, the scope of Qatari influence over Washington D.C. and America is monumental. And usually, no mention is made of it. This is a rare exception. Richard Olson, a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, has been criminally charged for his alleged role in an undisclosed lobbying…
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First Netflix, Now Google
Daniel Greenfield
Two emerging questions. 1. Just how fragile is our current economic ecosystem? 2. How big is the shock wave? Consider, Netflix just took a massive beating when its subscriber numbers dropped, leading to a massive stock value drop, followed by a directional shift. Now, another of the FAANG monsters gets its turn in the ducking…
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Is Beijing About to Join Shanghai as a Lockdown City?
Daniel Greenfield
The world has been watching the siege of Shanghai, starving people in perpetual lockdown and subjected to mass testing in pursuit of Zero COVID. Is Beijing about to join the party? Not the Communist Party.The other party. The lockdown party. Beijing will conduct mass testing of most of its 21 million people, authorities announced Monday,…
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While Americans Can’t Afford Gas, Biden Slashes Drilling
Daniel Greenfield
It’s not Putin’s price hike, it’s Biden’s. And he insists on reminding us of that every few days. The Biden administration on Monday reversed a Trump administration plan that would have allowed the government to lease more than two-thirds of the country’s largest swath of public land to oil and gas drilling. The Bureau of…
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Are Younger Americans Becoming Not Just Woke, But Irrational?
Daniel Greenfield
Call it the new Age of Aquarius. While a growing share of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated, there is one belief that appears to unite a significant share of them: astrology. YouGov’s latest poll finds that a little more than one-quarter of Americans (27%) – including 37% of adults under 30 – say that they believe in astrology,…
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Female Legislator Attacked for Not Wanting to Share a Bathroom With This Dude
Daniel Greenfield
The party that claims to be all about women’s rights, really doesn’t want them to have even the most basic rights. Like the right to privacy in the bathroom. A Kansas state lawmaker said she isn’t thrilled about having to share a restroom with her “huge” transgender Democratic colleague. Rep. Cheryl Helmer made her stance known in…
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Human Rights Groups Protest Lack of Censorship Due to Musk Twitter Buy
Daniel Greenfield
Elon Musk actually buying Twitter seemed wildly implausible, but we live in a world in which human rights groups protest the lack of censorship, so we certainly live in an implausible world that is anything but the best of all possible worlds. The Left, its activist groups and media outlets (but I repeat myself) keep…