“Mistah Kurtz – he dead” is the opening line of T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” (1925) our poem of the week. The entire poem can be read here. The opening line is itself a quote from ...

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The Washington Free Beacon’s daily morning newsletter conveniently summarizes events in New York City: It was a banner weekend in Zohran Mamdani’s New York. First, radical demonstrators held a ...

Feb 14, 2026 · It was a big week in the news. Marco Rubio went to Munich and mounted an eloquent defense of Western civilization. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tagged along, and proved herself not very …

Feb 28, 2026 · So I gather “mogging,” and/or “mogged” is the new hip term for . . . something . . . among the Gen Z or Millennials, like “flexing” a decade ago. And it seems “maxxing” goes with ...

Dec 20, 2025 · Okay, John Hinderaker went and did it last week! He has abused his stewardship of TWiP and went full Die Hard Christmas Movie Denialist! As the Dude says in The Big Lebowski, this …

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Jan 24, 2026 · Minnesota can’t seem to get out of the news. Once a placid backwater, the state has now become synonymous with bats**t crazy. ICE came to town, and it brought left-wingers, both native ...

Apr 19, 2025 · Wow. What a week. The Democrats continued their policy of taking the most unpopular positions possible, going to the mat on behalf of a human trafficking, wife beating, gang member …

Mar 8, 2025 · Somehow this is the week that the Memosphere decided that J.D. Vance needed to be the newest object of memortalization. (Yes, I made up that word.) I kept chanting to myself, “Musk. Not. …