Actress Emma Thompson did an interview with the Financial Times recently, and was asked about her appearance at an Extinction Rebellion protest earlier this year, when she said she had flown in from Los Angeles to attend . . . generating more of the carbon emissions she finds so odious and unacceptable. Advertisement Advertisement “I

(File photo: Charles Mostoller/Reuters) The Washington Post reported over the weekend that President Trump is “demanding aides present a plan to tackle student debt and the rising cost of a college education, worried that he has no response to expansive plans from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats he may face on the ballot next

Our intellectual classes today are utterly disconnected from reality. As Milo Yiannopoulos writes in a review of the film Joker, “We are reeling from a disaster still unfolding, the unmaking of reality at the hands of millennial progressivism.” Indeed, when it comes to unmaking reality, our cognitive elite may as well inhabit the parody world

A protestor gestures during a demonstration against the government’s pensions reform plans as part of a day of national strikes and protests in Paris, France, December 5, 2019. (Christian Hartmann/Reuters) It’s no model for what leftist schemes would create here. A nationwide series of protests, some of them violent, is convulsing France. The proximate cause

This was inspired by a conversation I had with a liberal comedian friend of mine earlier in the week. She’d been called a “racist” by a younger comic simply because she said that multiple violent offenders should be in jail. She then said to me, “Do you know how awful it is to be called

Judge Stephen Reinhardt 1998—Something called “table dancing” earns Ninth Circuit judge Stephen Reinhardt’s special solicitude. In dissent in Colacurcio v. City of Kent, Reinhardt ponders “whether table dancing constitutes a separate form of expressive communication from other types of nude dancing—that is, whether table dancers communicate a message different in content than that communicated by nude

It’s official: Islamic jihad and generic criminality are intimately connected. According to an earlier UK study: The lines between terrorism and criminality are becoming blurred as an increasing number of former criminals join the Islamic State… Nearly 60 percent of European jihadists studied by researchers had been jailed previously… Once recruited by ISIS, these people easily transition to

Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Shannon Stapleton / Yuri Gripas / Reuters) When someone has irked you and you want to lash out at him, it is natural, apparently, to mock his looks. Donald Trump and Joe Biden have both exemplified this. Last summer, Trump was doing one of his rallies, and it was interrupted

Second Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, an aviation officer in the Saudi Air Force, opened fire at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla., on Friday, killing four people and wounding many others. In doing so, he showed yet again that the prevailing politically correct obfuscation and denial regarding the jihad threat is not only wrong,

Actor Chadwick Boseman addresses the 150th commencement ceremony at Howard University in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2018. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) A lack of accountability means that mismanaged institutions repeatedly get bailed out. The federal government shovels hundreds of millions of dollars per year to America’s 100 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), with minimal accountability. Congress

From left: Noah Feldman, professor of law at Harvard University Law School, Pamela Karlan, co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford University Law School, Michael Gerhardt, professor of law at University of North Carolina School of Law, and Jonathan Turley, professor of law at George Washington University Law School, testify before the House