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The following is a transcript of my radar from Wednesday’s edition of “Rising” on Hill TV. Two years ago I wrote about Greg Gutfeld’s eye-popping ratings. The ratio of news coverage to viewers, compared with the ratio of media coverage to…

The following is a transcript of my radar from Wednesday’s edition of “Rising” on Hill TV. Over the summer, we talked here about the tyranny of jargon, about the immediate real-world consequences of political correctness. Nobody…

Thousands march down Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women’s March in Washington, DC, U.S., January 21, 2017. (Bryan Woolston/Reuters) With so many feminist advances, women should be getting happier instead of just more medicated. Over…

Lou de Laâge and Isabelle Huppert in White as Snow. (Gaumont/Cohen Media Group) Anne Fontaine’s White as Snow challenges the ‘non-binary’ concept of sex. Anne Fontaine’s White as Snow (Blanche comme neige) is a surprisingly…

We’ve been at this pandemic thing for over a year and wow, has a lot of stuff been cancelled! But now you’re fully vaccinated (or not!), your mask game is next level (or it isn’t!), and case numbers are going down (except in most places!)…

(Alexey_M/Getty Images) People are not mere tools. Not for entertainment, and not for propaganda. Human affairs have long been marked by chaos and violence. The reign of King Richard II (1377–1399) is instructive not because it was…

Detail of portrait of Sarah Josepha Hale by James Reid Lambdin, c. 1831. (Public domain/Wikimedia) Writer and magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale succeeded in 19th-century America, against the odds, as Melanie Kirkpatrick lays out in…

“Rooting against Olympians, scoffing at Capitol police, broaching civil war — meet today’s conservative movement.” That’s the opening of an article last week at Vox.com. You’ve probably heard of Vox. Their self-proclaimed, self-aggrandizing…

G.K. Chesterton (Bain News Service/Library of Congress) A hundred years ago, one Englishmen came to our shores and liked what he saw — unlike many of his peers. Today, it’s worth understanding why. The prolific, charismatic English…

The Mysterious Benedict Society (Disney+) Disney’s version of a beloved series of books is shallow and disappointing. ‘You possess a quality which is severely lacking in our society,” Mr. Benedict said to the four children. From our…