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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…

Some arguments are not really worth having. The debate over how much American military equipment had been left behind in Afghanistan is one of those. The real answer is that we don’t know and by ‘we’, I don’t just mean us, but the White House and the Pentagon don’t really know. The sheer amount of…

The only positive economic argument that the media had to make for the Biden administration was that the economy was growing and jobs were being added.  t was a transparently bad argument because when you plunge a nation to the bottom of a well, anything after that is likely to look like growth. Pandemic shutdowns…

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…

The gerrymandering midterm election bloodsport has, certainly on the Dem side, been an announcement that the public is going to bounce them no matter what, so all they can do is obscenely rig elections. That has backfired badly in New York where the judges, mostly Democrats, did their job and noted that the gerrymandering clearly…

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.…