Berny Belvedere

For the most part, centrism gets a bad rap.

We have reached a point—in fact, we probably reached it a while ago—where it is no longer useful to speak of “the Russia scandal” as though there exists a fixed, agreed-upon definition of it.

Steve Bannon, the nationalist agitator who served as Donald Trump’s chief political strategist for most of 2017, invited observers last year to compare Trump’s inaugural address with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos a few days earlier.…

The forecast for November 6, 2018 is a Democratic tsunami.

The World Series of Poker has been a fixture on ESPN since the 1980s. But has its long-running presence on cable’s flagship sports network been the result of an egregious programming mistake all along? On the one hand, the word “entertainment” is officially part of the media behemoth’s name. Yet if…

On Tuesday morning, Patrick S. Tomlinson, an author of science fiction and fantasy novels and contributor to the New York Times, tweeted out a challenge to the “pro-life crowd,” a challenge that, to Tomlinson’s satisfaction, demonstrates that these people pay mere lip-service to the idea that life…

On Monday, the city of New Orleans began the process of removing its four major Confederate monuments:

On Wednesday morning, anti-religion (and anti-philosophy) archvillain Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted a lamentation from his heart: There are too many dumb people on Earth. Our only hope as a race is to form a scientistic utopia; an Elysium whose access is restricted to the intelligentsia and whose…

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