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Nov 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
We have an entire class of journalists that believes that nothing is real, and that everything is about words, and that the public’s obvious concern about the tangible problems that are in front of their eyes is invariably about something else.
What concern over crime is *really* about. What concern over inflation is *really* about. What concern over education is *really* about. It’s tiresome. Astonishingly enough, most people don’t abstract everything in their lives out into your narrow and peculiar framework.
Nov 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm seeing some criticism of this, but I'd challenge any writer to explain how he can be expected to do his invaluable work documenting the world if he doesn't kiss a Hamas mastermind before heading to the office and carry a hand grenade on his commute.
People ask me what my day's like. It's pretty standard, really. I wake up. I have a coffee. I read the papers. Then, when I'm done preparing, I lay out my desk so it's conducive to writing: pen, paper, curated notes, hand grenade.
May 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Biden says he believes he can use the 14th Amendment on the debt ceiling. At no point in his presidency—not once—has he stood up and said No to the progressives in his party who, on the basis of obvious and risible lies, have demanded he violate his oath. nationalreview.com/2023/05/biden-…
He can’t do it. It doesn’t matter what the topic is. Someone comes in with a ridiculous theory, be it on student loans or evictions or vaccine mandates or the debt limit, and, after a couple of weeks, he endorses the lie. This is who he is. nationalreview.com/2023/05/biden-…
May 18, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Inspired by Virginia Heffernan's journalism, I sat down with Pete Buttigieg to discuss barges, Latin poetry, and my enduring love for his Cathedral of a mind—a love that makes breath poor and speech unable. nationalreview.com/2023/05/i-love…
In between the seductive sips of Courvoisier atop which he builds his heady pedagogical flights, Pete Buttigieg leans back into his pulchritudinous chair. I am sitting in the great man’s office. nationalreview.com/2023/05/i-love…
Mar 31, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
George Soros is heavily engaged in American politics—ask him, he’ll talk about it openly and enthusiastically!—and he is as liable to be criticized for that engagement as is anyone else. Those pretending otherwise are just trying to shut you up. nationalreview.com/corner/george-…
The reason people talk about “Soros-backed” prosecutors is that, as is his right, George Soros backs a lot of prosecutors. This isn’t a conspiracy theory; he writes about it often. Here he is last summer, outlining his approach in the Wall Street Journal: wsj.com/articles/why-i…
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