Zohran Mamdani said something similar during his campaign. Across the Atlantic, you hear the same thing about France, with people claiming that “French police are inspired by Israel.” Mind you, France has canceled numerous contracts with Israel and even recognized a Palestinian state. But none of that seems to matter, and I don't think that's a coincidence. Third Worldism needs a big, permanent enemy to keep the struggle going, and that enemy is always the imperial "North", with Israel portrayed as its natural ally. France, being a former colonial power and a Western country, fits perfectly into that narrative. And no matter how many concessions it makes, there will always be another grievance. The whole ideology depends on keeping that resentment alive.

Seizing the moment is a close cousin of “pouncing” nytimes.com/2026/10/19/franc…

“Have you seen the Muslims with their turbans and their djellabas? You can see they are not French. Try to integrate oil and vinegar. Shake the bottle. After a moment they separate again. The Arabs are Arabs, the French are French. Do you think that the French can absorb ten million Muslims who will tomorrow be twenty million and after tomorrow forty? … My village would no longer be called Colombey-les-deux-Eglises but Colombey-the-two-Mosques.” Charles de Gaulle, March 1959 nitter.siddz.com/shaig/status/211152173…

The last time the Milwaukee Brewers were in the World Series you could get 12 8-track tapes for only a dollar through The Gorman Thomas Tape Club®.

Thank you, Milwaukee Brewers. You’ve restored our faith in America

Flashing red light for the GOP, especially looking ahead to what’s likely to occur next year if Democrats control the House thehill.com/homenews/adminis…

Even if you disregard all the initial text messages, you still have Jane Doe’s sworn statement *a month later* when she’s had time to process what happened and decided it was very bad, and her detailed account of the night still doesn’t include anything that constitutes sexual assault—this is the ultimate flaw in the case and most media coverage and advocacy pretend that it doesn’t exist. You can assume everything in that statement is truthful and correct, and you still don’t get a rape case.

More than 275k views on this video about Ilhan Omar’s family background and potential immigration fraud piped.video/@nationalrevie…

It’s amazing how the fervor around the Cornell 7 case is growing even as the evidence increasingly points to a debauched, consensual encounter that would have ended it she had walked out or said “no”

As if young adult males growing up in the contemporary United States have never been told about sexism before, or these cluster of issues aren’t an obsession of academia and the broader culture

If you want to know why America is polarized, it’s the fault of the media. Yesterday, the Free Beacon, a conservative outlet, caught Abdul Sayed in a lie when Abdul denied his family had a connection to the Muslim Brotherhood. The FB showed a tweet by his own sister saying their mother belonged to the MB. The revelation that Abdul lied about his family ties to a radical Islamic terrorist group was ignored by NBC, ABC, CBS’s nightly news shows. The NYT and WP haven’t covered it. This should be a screaming front page story. Instead, the MSM runs cover for Abdul. The American people just want to know the truth about their politicians. Instead, the media are helping Abdul cover up the truth. Abdul has a lot to hide. It’s a tragedy the MSM is part of the team helping him hide it.

Consensual hookup culture often feels predatory to women because... it is. It preys on women's desire for monogamy and coupling and love, which many believe there's a chance of receiving even after casual sex. Frat bros around America are indebted to Alex Cooper for trying to convince so many women they can and should have sex like men. It's led to men having a lot more casual sex because women choose to have it. That norm is great for dudes, but women often end up feeling preyed upon and exploited because they experience sex differently and just can't — on average — have casual hookups so easily. Cooper preyed on women to make millions by convincing them it was normal to see sex more like men see it. Men who mislead women into having casual sex by dangling the prospect of monogamy prey on women. It doesn't mean women are helpless! And it doesn't mean non-consensual sex is anything short of horrifying and criminal. It just means there's a predatory culture swirling around even consensual hookups too, and it's really dangerous for women.

For my bi-weekly home at @nro, I note in some detail that there is no epidemic of "US lynchings" and explain why. Takes? nationalreview.com/2026/10/w…

I wrote for @NRO about the mysteriously absent “no” in the Cornell 7 case : “The end result of liberal sexual ethics writ large — according to which women seldom say no and they can be, or should be, every bit as debauched as men — has not been a joyful bacchanal but a minefield. It’s a two-tiered system for the sexes. Female sexuality is practically unlimited, but it’s not coupled with an expectation of responsibility or agency, or even the minimal requirement to know and clearly communicate one’s own mind. On the other side of the ledger, male sexuality is maximally constrained. In a reversal of biological fortune, men are now expected to be the brakes on sex, even when women directly advertise that they are eager and open to all comers. In the face of “free p****,” to quote one defendant’s vulgar chat message, they must either be rapists or monks… Feminists understandably balk at the idea that women ought to be at all times under the supervision and control of the men around them. Yet they now claim that “no” is so difficult and so beyond women’s ability that we need to reinvent the old patriarchal structure, this time made more insane by the fact that it’s no longer a woman’s father or husband — who at least presumably love her and have her best interests at heart — who is responsible for controlling or curtailing her sexual escapades, but random fraternity brothers instead. Conservatives have always had moral reasons to oppose the sexual revolution, wisely suspecting that “free love” wouldn’t bring the bliss promised. But irresponsible “sexual liberation” for women and legal puritanism and punishment for men may be the worst of all worlds. If we women do not wish to return to the days of legal chaperones, we must relearn how to deploy the simple no.” nationalreview.com/2026/10/w…

I almost literally cannot think of a worse idea than paying college women tens of thousands of dollars to make Cornell-quality rape claims.

They want Sophie Cunningham out of the league, so they can focus all their effort on hating Caitlin Clark

After @hughhewitt -v- Il Papa on MLB playoffs, I'm ornery but, thanks to @RichLowry, high energy today on our pod: political theater masqueraded law -- the Cornell 7 & death penalty aesthetics. Iran in the middle ... and in the UK. Hope you'll tune in. nationalreview.com/podcasts/…

The Cornell 7 case has all the hallmarks of a collective hysteria on par with Ferguson, Missouri—“I am Jane Doe” is the equivalent of “Hands up, don’t shoot.” In this case, just like in Ferguson, the most fervent advocates don’t know the facts of the case and don’t care to know them, lest they complicate a narrative condemning a group of people as a class—the police back then, fraternity members now. To dissent from the orthodoxy is, once again, considered a hateful act. It was all but forbidden back then to suggest that Michael Brown got shot because of what he himself did (assault a police officer), and the mob this time has no tolerance for the idea that Jane Doe should bear responsibility for own conduct and decision-making. Brown was considered *inherently* a victim, and so is Jane Doe. This is not the way to think about such cases in a rational society. Now, there is much that still hasn’t been made fully public in the Cornell 7 case, but what we’ve seen of the evidentiary record clearly points to consensual acts that Jane Doe came to regret (and to the abysmal conduct of almost all of the young men involved). But the facts are irrelevant if they don’t align with the ideological narrative, and if in the fullness of time, this case proves to have been a hysteria and witch hunt, it won’t matter—all the celebrities, Democratic politicians, influencers, advocates, and journalists will move on, unchastened, to the next thing, just like they did with “Hands up, don’t shoot.”

This week’s College Gameday featuring Caitlin Clarkwas its most-watched episode this season & most-watched October episode EVER The Caitlin Clark Effect

There are obviously things that Trump says that are genuinely outrageous, but the fake outrage is so tiresome and has the opposite effect that Democrats and the media hope for