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  • The Strangest Thing About the Debate

    The Strangest Thing About the Debate0

    It struck me about one hour into what Politico calls “the snarling incoherence of the latest Democratic presidential debate” that was “painfully hard to follow.”  What precisely was so painful?  It was not what divided this gaggle of politicians vying for your affection. It was what united them. They all agree that their job is to have

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  • The Strangest Thing About ‘Stranger Things’

    The Strangest Thing About ‘Stranger Things’2

    If you watch Stranger Things with your kids, there’s a good chance they spend some of the time crying. Not because the monsters are so scary, but because the kids are so free. It’s like monkeys at the zoo watching a Jane Goodall documentary. In pretty much every episode, Will, Max, Dustin, Lucas, El, and

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  • The strange history of ‘Mein Kampf’ in France

    The strange history of ‘Mein Kampf’ in France0

    Seventy years after the death of Adolf Hitler, “Mein Kampf” is in the public domain and free to be republished. The history of its English version is relatively well-known, thanks to historians James and Patience Barnes. Its history in French is not. While French journalist Antoine Vitkine wrote a 2009 global history of “Mein Kampf”

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  • The Strange Death of Europe

    The Strange Death of Europe0

    What does Europe’s future look like? Last night I finished reading Douglas Murray’s fascinating, brilliant, beautifully argued and deeply disturbing book, The Strange Death of Europe. Murray writes of Europe’s “suicide,” a decision made not by voters choosing this in democratic elections but very largely by elites acting without broad consent. Murray, a British intellectual and

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  • The Strange Case of the Male Mother

    The Strange Case of the Male Mother0

    Freddy McConnell, a “trans man” who became pregnant and gave birth, but legally became a man when the child was born, has been pursuing a legal challenge against the General Register Office as the administrator of the registration of births and deaths in England and Wales. This week he lost at the Court of Appeal

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  • The Story Behind Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’

    The Story Behind Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’0

    Charles Dickens was mad. He was angry at his father, who was sent to debtors’ prison, forcing young Charles to pawn his belongings, drop out of school and work in a shoe-polish factory. He was also angered by the conditions in which England’s poorest children lived and worked. He was going to publish a political

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