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Joe Biden, ready for Mount Rushmore, on the cover of the current Rolling Stone. Nothing says counterculture like an addled old white guy. Preview Open
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Oprah Magazine’s White Guilt Special
The most successful black entrepreneur of the age wants you to know how terrible life has been in racist America. So Oprah Winfrey is using the pages of the September issue of O to drive home the Black Lives Matter message: you are racist and you just can’t help yourself. You were raised in white privilege, and even if you feel bad about the racial injustice that sustains you, there is a price to pay. Get ready to be re-educated, right here in this nice lifestyle magazine you may have enjoyed reading for two decades.
For the first time in its 20-year history, the cover does not present an idealized photograph of a beaming, smartly attired Oprah. Instead it features a digital rendering of Breonna Taylor, the young woman shot to death in a police drug raid on her home in Louisville. The raid appears to be an egregious police blunder and is still being investigated. It’s a great tragedy, and Oprah’s signed editorial is a heartfelt lament.
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With apologies to Don McLean. Bye, bye, out with Eskimo PieAnd racist brands like Uncle Ben’s that no longer fly.We’ll all take a knee when the flag passes by,Sayin’ “woke” is like a thumb in the eye,“Woke” is like a thumb in the eye. Preview Open
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Mr. President, Don’t Campaign for Re-Election
Donald Trump is so “unpresidential.” So say his detractors, with a frown. And so say his admirers, with a smile. In 2020 the electorate will have its chance to be rid of Trump and return to politics as usual, which offers a straight-line path to further Leftist influence. I prefer to continue our experiment with this unusual leader who dares to agitate and excite the political world.
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“Best of Enemies,” the documentary released last summer that re-examines the storied William F. Buckley-Gore Vidal debates during the presidential campaign of 1968, may not have played long in your neighborhood, if at all. But I just discovered that it IS available on Netflix streaming and Amazon Video (not Prime, alas). I believe reviews during the […]
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The disgraceful tweet by a Newsweek senior writer that flatly called Ted Cruz a Nazi has been well denounced here. Yet the writer in subsequent tweets seems unaware of how shamefully he has behaved. Turner Classic Movies recently showed the 1955 French documentary “Night and Fog,” about Auschwitz and all those related Nazi horrors. It […]
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Rob Long’s thoughts on the moral superiority of Ebenezer Scrooge can be found in the Saturday/Sunday issue of The Wall Street Journal. Rob has not trumpeted his WSJ appearance here on Ricochet, probably for reasons of character flaws that his essay makes clear. I will endeavor to post the link to the online edition but […]
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The NEA has endorsed Hillary Clinton, before any primary debate can take place. But public school teachers are using Twitter to voice unhappiness with their leaders. Their complaint? The NEA did not give Bernie Sanders a chance! The largest labor union in the country (three million strong) is in turmoil over its leaders’ failure to […]
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Victor Davis Hanson, drawing on classical allusions, reflects on the difficult last 12 months of his family’s life. His many followers here will want to have this link (moderators allowing). Preview Open
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Despite the Academy Award bestowed on Julianne Moore, her movie “Still Alice” is far from a commercial success. In my search here, it has been little (perhaps not at all) discussed. The movie just reached my lightly populated neck of the woods this week, and now, having seen it, I have one point to make. […]
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On Saturday night, Charlotte, GLDIII and his wife Linda, Architectus and Danihel Tornator found their way to the Gaylord Resort and Convention Center, just across the Potomac from Alexandria, for our little gathering after CPAC came to a close. Sarah Palin had no sooner finished her riff on “Green Eggs and Ham” (a bit of […]
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O.K., there was no avalanche of reaction to my suggestion for a Ricochet meet-up on the periphery of CPAC (March 6 to 8) but I am pressing ahead. The plan at this point is to meet Saturday at 6PM in the National Pastime Sports Bar and Grill in the Marriott, the host hotel of CPAC […]
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Last year there was a flagship podcast from CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) in suburban D.C. Not so this year, I am told. But my wife and I are going to attend anyway. The event is March 6-8. Surely there will be the odd Ricochetti present on the edges, and we would love to […]
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Privately, I have little respect for the ranking members of Congress. But outwardly they are owed deference for the offices they hold. Am I the only one who failed to enjoy Jon Stewart’s rude treatment of Nancy Pelosi? He asked her on the Daily Show this week how it could be that the government dropped […]
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Fox News Channel. 9 p.m. Eastern. Episode of “Firing Line” with Mr. Buckley’s guest, the governor of California, Ronald Reagan. Perhaps a discussion here will follow? Preview Open
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In any list of books discussed on Ricochet over the years as must-reads, “Darkness at Noon,” by Arthur Koestler, nearly always comes up. So when I stumbled upon an aging Signet paperback at a yard sale, I picked it up. It is a staggering, stimulating book. Given its condition, I will doubtless be the last […]
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I have been voting in Manhattan on the East Side for more than 20 years. Until recently our precinct used those old midcentury machines. (Throw a huge lever to close curtain, flip a series of switches like Slim Pickens piloting the bomber in “Dr. Strangelove,” and throw the lever back again.) Now we are using […]
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This is not about the debate. This is a question for the West Coast academically connected Ricochet crowd. A full-color ad for USC appears in today’s New York Times, adjacent to its debate coverage. The ad, showing a leafy campus, declares “USC offers the largest financial aid pool of any university in the USA.” O.K. […]
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A friend who is nonideological, and not particularly political, blithely asserts that Obama will defeat Romney easily because of Mitt’s Mormonism. I am aware that Romney’s religion is often portrayed as a drawback. But is it fatal? In my friend’s view, Southern evangelicals are a critical voting bloc, and they simply will stay home in […]
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Not to step on the wonderful discussion initiated by Mollie Hemingway a few days ago, but … we cannot allow it to pass unnoticed by Ricochet that The New York Times published a follow-on to the Ruth Ginsburg flap, on its front page. Did you miss it? Headline: ‘We the People’ Loses Followers. I can imagine how […]
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