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No doubt you’re aware of the international spectacle rapper Nicki Minaj caused when she informed her 156 million followers on social media why she was not attending the Met Gala on Monday night. It all began when she posted a series of tweets, explaining that she could not provide the proof of Covid vaccination required,… Read more.
This blog is replete with commentaries exposing the fashion industry’s Marie-Antoinette sense and sensibility, antebellum notion of beauty, and nakedly prurient appeal. Indeed, regarding this last point, cognitive dissonance is such that the best-dressed women these days are often the least dressed. But I have decried everything from mannequins strutting their skinny bones on catwalks… Read more.
Many Americans are just too jingoistic to concede the Taliban won this 20-year war. But the way the Taliban presided over America’s humiliating retreat from Kabul last month betrays the truth. As it happened, here is how I declared the Taliban (and their al-Qaeda hired guns) the winner on 9/11 … 10 years ago: If… Read more.
Political dysfunction and social unrest have had America marching towards another civil war for years. And I have been in the vanguard of those sounding alarms in commentaries like “Tribalism and Dysfunction in American Politics,” June 24, 2018, “Impeachment Vote Is as Much About Tribalism as Trumpism,” November 3, 2019, and “Republican and Democrats Began… Read more.
