Category: Serious Commentary

If Leo Strauss were with us today, he’d add Reductio ad Trumpium to his Reduction ad Hitlerum.

The ‘economic individualism/economic collectivism’ dichotomy is so idiotic, I wish it could be binned, preferably along with those who propagate it. Welfare and the NHS, designed to relieve and alleviate the suffering of real people, rather than of meaningless abstractions,…

Suppose I told you this was the result of a conversation I had with a dear friend? Let’s call her Fatima.

If demagoguery plays to our prejudices and fears, then demagoonery adds our gullibility and a dearth of honest information to the mix. Here’s an example: During Obama’s second term the stock market did a little 50 point dipsy doodle. One…

I recently got a bad headache and had to lie down. It snuck up on me while I was researching the word fascist. The reason for my interest in fascism was Yvette Felarca. She’s a special kind of crazy. People…

In the occasionally some news is good news department, Gadfly is happy to report that there’s a new kid on the block, a new lab at MIT started with a private donation, that has expressed a desire to find a…

Glossy News is a non-partisan satire site. But even a co-editor is entitled to express one’s view on divisive issues, once in a while. I’m going down soon to the ‘One Day Without Us’ event in Leeds. Make sure you…

Strange days indeed!- I actually agree with Trump on something. First off, build that damn wall!!!!! 11 million Hispanics are living illegally in the U.S. and they have the cheek to insist that they are justified in doing so? Wrong!…

Not long ago I made a comment below a certain article about the republication of Mein Kampf in Germany: It runs as follows (slightly edited):

Recently someone said to me the Holocaust would have been ‘less bad’ if 9 thousand were murdered instead of 9 million.