Brutal realities

On CNN and Fox News, one politician after another professed to be “shocked” by the massacre in Orlando. “Who would have expected such a thing?” people kept asking. Actually, I’ve been expecting just such a thing for years. The only shock was that it took this long for some jihadist to go after a gay […]

No laughing matter

Comedy ain’t what it used to be. Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld, among others, have said that they’d never do stand-up on a campus these days because the ultra-PC students are so easily offended. Since Joan Rivers’ untimely death in 2014 robbed us of a bold, antic counterweight to all things PC, three other female […]

Disgraceful

Gloria Steinem and Mayor DeBlasio’s wife will be among those gathering at the Brooklyn Museum today to honor Angela Davis, an unrepentant Communist, Jew-hater, and apologist for the Islamic oppression of women. Disgraceful, but these days hardly surprising.

Happy 100th, Bernard Lewis

Yesterday was the 100th birthday of Bernard Lewis, the magisterial and prophetic historian of Islam whom I’m honored to be able to call a friend. Martin Lewis pays homage to him here, and several other eminences offer tributes here.