America has reached that glamorous stage of empire where half the country thinks every stranger online is a patriot, a prophet, or a constitutional Continue Reading
Hollywood Put a Wig on the Lie
There’s a new little trick in prestige television, and by “new” I mean recycled with the confidence of a toddler wearing lipstick on its forehead. Continue Reading
The Nice People Setting the House on Fire
The most dangerous people in public life are not the obvious crooks. At least a crook has the decency to enjoy the money. No, the real menace is the Continue Reading
The Polling Sausage Machine Still Gets Invited to Dinner
The modern political poll is no longer a thermometer. It’s a sausage machine wearing a lab coat, grinding assumptions, incentives, and audience Continue Reading
They Bought Both Sides
There was a time when Americans were told the country was split between left and right, as if citizenship were a booth at a county fair and democracy Continue Reading
Your Opinions Have a Landlord
The old fairy tale says we live in a marketplace of ideas. How adorable. That phrase always arrives dressed like a civics teacher and leaves smelling Continue Reading
When Whiteness Becomes Probable Cause
There’s a point where a society stops pursuing justice and starts playing racial bingo with a body still warm on the floor. We have reached that Continue Reading
Failure Got Promoted and You Got the Bill
Failure used to leave a bruise. Now it gets a staff retreat, a revised title, and a lanyard printed by people who think “impact” is a substitute Continue Reading
D-Day 2026 and the Patriotic Screensaver Industrial Complex
Today America will pause for the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, which means we’ll spend eight minutes pretending to understand sacrifice before returning Continue Reading
The Cult of Performed Dysfunction
The surest sign a society has lost its mind is when it starts calling basic self-respect oppression. That’s when you know the adults have left the Continue Reading
The Hot Take Laundromat
Nothing in modern public life is more impressive than the speed with which allegedly serious people can convert ignorance into certainty. Give them a Continue Reading
The Useless Keep Getting Promoted
Author’s Note: This piece is the private-sector sequel to “The Battlefield Is Not a Diversity Workshop,” because apparently the Pentagon didn’t corner Continue Reading