Author: nick
May 12, 2026 Elliot Sperber You is my friendI mean: Hugh is my friendBut Hugh no longer understands They lie so muchto Hugh that HughCan no longer tell What’s false or true Nor does Hugh know muchAbout the god Ahura Mazda Hugh can’t see That Ahura is shortened to Hurand Mazda’s truncated to Maz Put em togetherAnd what’ve you got? Hur maz, or Hor muzLike the Strait of Hormuz You’ll get there fasterWith Zoroaster The prophet Who’s sick of Hugh For tolerating lies And Mazda, they say, means wiseWhen really it’s closer toPlacing the mind And where will you place…
The American Conservative was founded in order to try and convince the George W. Bush administration that Saddam Hussein was incapable of building a proper bicycle, let alone acquiring and operating nuclear weapons. In this we failed, as some of you youngsters out there may have guessed. Although we gave it the good old college try, our opponents were far too well-financed and well-placed in government and in all traditionally important posts for Pat, Scott, and myself to win. And what an opposition we faced: Leading the fight for war was Humpty Dumpty himself, in his Halloween military uniform and…
From Friday’s decision of the Nebraska Supreme Court in Munsell v. Munsell (opinion by Justice Derek Vaughn): Jacob and Libby married in 2010 and had two children, one born in 2016 and the second born in 2018. In February 2024, Libby filed a complaint seeking dissolution of the marriage. The parties stipulated to the division of their property, and they agreed to share joint physical custody of the children under a rotating parenting schedule that gave each parent equal time. Trial was had on the contested issues of legal custody, the children’s involvement in the church attended by Jacob (church),…
There is such a thing as too much empathy. In his new book, Dr. Gad Saad writes just how dangerous that can be to our institutions and culture. Source link
The president is once again prioritizing feeding his base over the general electorate. Source link
Since the start of NATO’s proxy war against Russia, a fierce determination has animated the political and opinion elites in both Europe and the United States to elevate public perceptions of Ukraine’s strategic importance and moral standing. That attempted elevation sometimes has reached extreme, even laughable, levels. Until last month, pundits Marc Thiessen and Bernard-Henri Lévy deserved the joint prize for producing the most fawning, unrealistic pro-Ukraine analyses that ignored even the most basic realities about European or global geopolitics. In a Washington Post op-ed from April 2022, Thiessen, a speechwriter for President George W. Bush and later a senior…
Color Unbound: Matisse 1941-1954 Matisse. 1941-1954 Grand Palais, Paris March 24 – July 26, 2026 Catalogue (Thames & Hudson, 2026) Edited by Claudine Grammont Acquavella Galleries, New York, April 9- May 22, 2026 This year Marcel Duchamp (1887- 1968) and Henri Matisse (1869-1954), renowned modernists with very diverse artistic perspectives, are having major retrospectives. When they died, they were immense living influences upon contemporary artists. Duchamp was a key precursor for both Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, as well— of course— as for very many other living artists. And Matisse was said to make possible the abstractions of Morris Louis…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio had his mic-drop moment in the James S. Brady Press Room, moonlighting in yet another Trump administration post—this time filling in for White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt at the podium while she is on maternity leave. Reporters guffawed at Rubio’s ’90s rap references and then filed stories talking him up as a 2028 presidential prospect, especially in contrast with Vice President J.D. Vance (who was actually in Iowa at the time). It’s not totally insane in the membrane, as the kids said 33 years ago. President Donald Trump’s secretary of state and national security…
Congressional Democrats talk tough about leveling the playing field. Now they’re complaining that the Supreme Court just gave them one. It turns out “fair” meant “rigged in our favor” – and on April 29 the court called their bluff. Louisiana v. Callais is about ending a 60-year abuse that turned the 1965 Voting Rights Act from a tool for stopping racial discrimination into a weapon for mandating it. Under a warped interpretation of the law’s original purpose, federal courts long forced states to draw congressional maps based on voters’ race. The result: 144 majority-minority districts, just 23 of which elected…
A working-class voice, a policy wonk, and a champion of political revolution face off for Nancy Pelosi’s seat. Source link