January 17, 2026

IT’S NOT MEN WHO RADICALIZED; IT’S WOMEN:

We hear all the time about how young men have lurched rightward, moving toward a fascist view of things.

There are endless thinkpieces out there trying to divine why men have become so right-wing. The evidence, they say, is clear: the gender gap between men and women is growing, which obviously shows that something is deeply wrong with men.

But…if you dive into the available data, it shows that men have not moved much at all ideologically. The movement is almost entirely among women, who have lurched—dramatically, as a group—leftward. So far left that in many cases, they verge on radical revolutionaries.

Read the whole thing, and then check out this article-length tweet, which is also well worth your time:

 

Posted at 2:22 pm by Ed Driscoll

GREAT MOMENTS IN “FOSTERING INTEGRATION:”

Posted at 2:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

YES, SHE CAUSED A BELOVED FRANCHISE TO DEI A PAINFUL DEATH: Good riddance, Kathleen Kennedy.

If you wanted a skilled producer with excellent taste and blockbuster smarts, you sent for Kathleen Kennedy. And she delivered, over and over again.

It therefore was not remotely surprising that, when Lucasfilm passed into the hands of Disney, Kennedy was seen as the perfect person to shepherd their projects into highly profitable existence. With Star Wars pried from the protective hands of Lucas, Kennedy was free to expand the saga from a galaxy far, far away into a never-ending project in IP renewal. The first picture that came out, 2015’s The Force Awakens, was a shameless exercise in fan service, but it was still exciting and nonetheless made over $2 billion at the global box office. Kennedy was lauded to the skies; she announced plans for more films, to be released at the rate of one a year, and television series to fill in the gaps. Audiences loved Star Wars, and they were about to get an awful lot more of it.

What went wrong over the intervening decade represents one of the most fascinating – and deadening – studies in Hollywood hubris that there has ever been. There were two more canonical Star Wars films, Rian Johnson’s insultingly sneering and smug The Last Jedi, and returning director J.J. Abrams’s panicked The Rise of Skywalker, which was a desperate exercise in undoing all Johnson’s provocations. Both films were commercial hits but lacked the freshness of The Force Awakens.

As John Nolte wrote a couple of weeks ago, “Personally, Star Wars has worked so hard to alienate, offend, insult, and troll its loyal fanbase, it wouldn’t surprise me if Mandalorian & Grogu underperforms. We just don’t care anymore. There’s an air of indifference out there, a sense of moving on. I see it too with Paramount’s woke warping of its Star Trek franchise. The creators politicize their golden geese to a point where disappointment turns to anger and then the most deadly fate of all sets in for the brand: indifference.”

UPDATE:

Posted at 1:50 pm by Ed Driscoll

“IS THE NEW YORK TIMES A LIBERAL NEWSPAPER? OF COURSE IT IS:” The Same New York Times That Called Trump a ‘Nazi’ and ‘Fascist’ Objects to THIS Hateful Word for Women.

As the article piously reported:

In the days since a federal agent killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, Republican officials and conservative commentators have called the 37-year-old white woman “very violent,” a “deranged lunatic woman” and a “domestic terrorist.”

Some right-wing influencers have latched onto a different word — or rather an acronym: Ms. Good, they have said, was AWFUL.

“An AWFUL (Affluent White Female Urban Liberal) is dead after running her car into an ICE agent who opened fire on her,” the conservative commentator Erik Erickson posted on social media. “Progressive whites are turning violent. ICE agents have the right to defend themselves.”

Affluent. White. Female. Urban. Liberal.

Which of those five words does the Times believe is hateful?

Because for a solid decade now, the New York Times has bashed Donald Trump with the harshest, most vicious language imaginable. Words such as Nazi, Hitler, and fascist were used over and over again:

May 28, 2016: Rise of Donald Trump Tracks Growing Debate Over Global Fascism

Aug. 8, 2017: The Test of Nazism That Trump Failed

Sept. 11, 2018: Is Trump a Fascist?

Oct. 15, 2018: If You’re Not Scared About Fascism in the U.S., You Should Be

Nov. 30, 2020: 1918 Germany Has a Warning for America

Dec. 19, 2023: Trump Attacked for Echoing Hitler, Says He Never Read Mein Kampf

Oct. 29, 2024: Presidents, Conventions and Nazis: A Political History of ‘The Garden’

Nov. 6, 2024: Amid Talks of Fascism, Trump’s Threats and Language Evoke a Grim Past

Of course, every now and then, the Times would criticize Trump without calling him Hitler, a fascist, or a Nazi. For example, on April 13, 2018, the Times ran this delightful essay: “Tethered to a Raging Buffoon Called Trump.”

I dunno. Maybe it’s just me, but isn’t “raging buffoon” a tad more mean-spirited than AWFUL?

Apparently not. In fact, according to the Times, affluent white women are now a targeted, vulnerable minority — just like the Indians and Jews:

Liberal white women are only the latest group to be on the receiving end of right-wing animus. In late October and November, as Tucker Carlson offered a friendly interview to the Holocaust-denying white nationalist Nick Fuentes, the fear among some conservatives was that attacking Jews was inching toward the mainstream of the Republican Party. Last month, Vivek Ramaswamy, the wealthy entrepreneur who is a Republican candidate for governor in Ohio, was calling out a surge of bigotry directed at Indian Americans, like himself.

Exit quote: “Gosh, it’s almost as if the Times is telling its readers exactly what they want to hear.”

Because of its subscriber-based model, it has to. The consequences otherwise would be disastrous for the awful Gray Lady:

(Classical reference in headline.)

Posted at 1:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

SOCIALISTS NATIONALLY BEGIN SEARCHING FOR THEIR NEXT HITLER: Jim Acosta Helps Dems Make the Pivot to ‘JD Vance Is Worse Than Trump’ (Plus: Get the TDS Straitjacket!)

Flashback to 2021: Ron DeSantis Gets Labeled ‘Worse Than Trump.’

This is what Democrats always do. Geroge W. Bush is Hitler until Mitt Romney comes along. Then, Bush is the harmless guy who paints who they wish all Republicans were like. Once Trump came along, Romney was rehabbed. Now that DeSantis is the frontrunner for 2024 in many people’s minds, and clearly, the one Democrats fear the most, he must become worse than the Republican who came before him.

Related: Found via Ace of Spades, Scott Adams at the dawn of the Biden error era:

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Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

DAVID BROOKS DESCRIBES ICE IN MINNEAPOLIS AS ALMOST AN ‘ARMED OCCUPATION:’

On Friday’s installment of PBS News Hour, New York Times columnist David Brooks proved once again why PBS needs to find an actual conservative for their weekly news recap segment. While doing that rhetorical trick where someone calls for the lowering of tensions in Minneapolis while simultaneously hurling inflammatory accusations at ICE and the Trump administration, Brooks described the city as under “something like an armed occupation.”

Host Amna Nawaz thought Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was doing his part to lower the temperature, “David, we’ve seen tensions only rising on the ground in Minneapolis. We saw Governor Walz publicly come out and call for a lowering of the temperature, telling the protesters, don’t take the bait, don’t be violent, even as the administration says it’s going to surge more agents. Criminal subpoenas for the state and city leaders, does that lower the temperature?

Of course, that omits all of Walz’s previous “Gestapo” rhetoric and that Walz’s version of Frankenstein’s monster has led to rioting, vandalism, and assault of ICE agents.

As it was, Brooks was happy to play along with Nawaz’s framing, “Not exactly. We’re coming close to something like an armed occupation of an American state by the American federal government. There are 3,000 ICE officers in Minneapolis, which is like five times the number of police officers. And they are behaving with reckless and violent abandon.”

Exit question:

Flashback: As Glenn wrote in 2016: How David Brooks Created Donald Trump.

Posted at 12:30 pm by Ed Driscoll

THE MONEY-MAKING SECRETS BEHIND HOTEL DESIGN (Video):

Posted at 10:45 am by Ed Driscoll

GIVEN GEORGETOWN’S HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM, THAT’S SAYING SOMETHING: Georgetown severs ties with antisemitic UN official after she was sanctioned by U.S. State Department. “Georgetown University recently removed UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese from its website after previously listing her on its ‘Other Affiliated Scholars’ page. Albanese had previously been sanctioned by the U.S. State Department, which accused her of ‘unabashed antisemitism’ and ‘support for terrorism.’”

To be fair, she is awful.

Posted at 10:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

ARCHEOLOGY DOCUMENTS BIBLICAL EXODUS ACCOUNT: A cuneiform from 1210 BC includes a Pharoah’s boasting about having “laid waste” to “Israel.” Other cuneiforms document Canannite rulers begging Pharoah to send help to defeat an invading “Apiru,” which meant somebody who was a sort of stateless person. Harvard Emeritus Professor Frank Moore Cross contends “apiru” is the root for the more recent term, Hebrew.

But wait! There more’s on HillFaith this morning.

Posted at 9:33 am by Mark Tapscott

WELL, ONE IS A THREAT TO THE LEFT, THE OTHER IS PART OF ITS STRATEGY:

Posted at 8:45 am by Glenn Reynolds

CHRIS BRAY: The Explosion of Political Noise Is Meant to Cover the Death of the Blue Model, Nothing Else.

So the legislative analyst is a Democratic Party selection, chosen by and friendly to the progressive supermajority that governs the state. It’s not an office full of fiscal conservatives; it’s the Democratic Party apparatus, professional-class liberals. And they’re freaking out, because holy shit is the idiot governor trying to bankrupt us?

It’s all just collateral damage so long as he gets what he wants out of it.

Plus: “The panic about Blue Zone fiscal disaster is coming from inside the Blue Zones. Here’s Minnesota’s state auditor, Judy Randall, warning that her fraud investigations turned up fabricated documents, a sign of a cover-up inside the state government.”

It’s fraud all the way down, and has been for quite a while.

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds