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Aug 20, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Jason Fields |Morgan Marietta
Recently, while strolling in the depths of the San Fernando Valley, I saw a sidewalk stencil that said, "Not all cults are bad." I had to laugh. In my memoir, I revisited the old territory of growing up the daughter of a rock icon who I always saw as one part Spock and one part Jesus. I didn't just compete for his affection in my childhood home, I battled the fervent flock he ministered to, his fans, proselytizing to the feverish believers with his acerbic, satiric siren songs.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Morgan Marietta
The unofficial motto of Austin, Texas, is "Keep Austin Weird." In my experience, the unofficial motto of the average high school is "Get him, he's different!" I prefer the first slogan. The Democratic Party has thrown down on a campaign of accusing Republicans of being "weird," "creepy," and the opposite of "team normal." Vice President Kamala Harris chose the originator of this theme—Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota—as her running mate. Why has weirdness become a political slogan?
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Morgan Marietta |Rod Liddle |Freddy Gray |Amelia Butler-Gallie
On October 7, 2023, I was the chairman of the political science department at a large public university, but not for long. I did what I presumed universities are for, encouraging students to talk with professors about big questions and important issues of the day. So on October 18, I held a faculty-student discussion with a Middle East expert.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Morgan Marietta
On October 7, 2023, I was the chairman of the political science department at a large public university, but not for long. I did what I presumed universities are for, encouraging students to talk with professors about big questions and important issues of the day. So on October 18, I held a faculty-student discussion with a Middle East expert.
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Jun 30, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Margaret Mitchell |Toby Harnden |Douglas Murray |Morgan Marietta
Joe Biden has a cold. That was the desperate message sent out by sources close to the president halfway through Thursday night’s painful debate. Biden’s sick-note recalls the first televised debate in 1960, when the incumbent vice president and Republican nominee Richard Nixon, recently hospitalized and still recovering from a staph infection, appeared pale and sickly beside the tanned, waspy Democrat John F. Kennedy who had the advantage of makeup on his side.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Douglas Murray |Toby Harnden |Morgan Marietta |Daniel DePetris
As all non-bigoted readers will know, this is the holy and most ancient month of Pride. The time of year when — like our ancestors of yore — we bedeck our banks, supermarkets and public buildings with the latest variant of the rainbow flag. For a while now, the flag has kept coming with added details, such as circles, triangles, squares and other ways to provoke epilepsy, all because some people felt the old “inclusive” flag was not inclusive enough.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Morgan Marietta |Daniel DePetris |Michael Evans |Jacob Heilbrunn
Chevron is dead. Many will mourn its passing. Forty is too young, they will say, for a doctrine to have done its work in enabling bureaucrats to decide for us the meaning of laws and the nature of reality. But the US Supreme Court has overturned Chevron in a landmark ruling in Loper Bright and Relentless, cases named after fishing boats which regulators drove toward extinction.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Oliver-James Campbell |Toby Harnden |Douglas Murray |Morgan Marietta
Open one of the major novels by Honoré de Balzac and you are likely to encounter a sentence such as this, from Cousin Bette: “Towards the middle of July, in the year 1838, one of those vehicles called milords, then appearing in the Paris squares for the first time, was driving along the rue de l’Université.” Or this (from César Birroteau): “On winter nights there is no more than a momentary lull in the noise of the rue Saint-Honoré.” It is the same story in Père Goriot (rue...
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | James Delingpole |Toby Harnden |Douglas Murray |Morgan Marietta
Jason Dessen, the hero (and, as you’ll discover shortly, anti-hero) of Apple TV’s latest sci-fi caper Dark Matter, is a physics professor at a second-rate university in Chicago. You can tell he’s not that good at his job because he introduces the concept of Schrödinger’s cat (surely the only interesting bit in the entirety of physics) five minutes before the end of a lecture. “Oh and the cat dies,” he says to the uninterested students as they file hurriedly out of class.
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May 21, 2024 | 
lucianne.com | Morgan Marietta
Original ArticlePosted By: Moritz55, 5/21/2024 6:23:08 PMIn Witness, Whittaker Chambers explained his break with the Communist Party after he learned of the widespread violence and murder its ideologues were committing. As Chambers famously phrased it, he heard the screams. I left mainstream academia because I heard the lies. The core reason why I walked away from an established academic career to help build a new institution is that I felt the urge to censor myself.
