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Thieves in suits among suites

Today’s captains of corporate capitalism like to think of themselves not as mere businesspeople, but as modern society’s genius “innovators.” Sounds positive — until you ask the key question: Innovation for what purpose? After all, some of society’s most inventive minds are ...

Art does not fit in straightjacket

I’m here to defend cultural appropriation. “Cross-cultural influence,” would be the less pejorative phrase. But the term above, with its connotations of grand-theft culture, is the one favored by some African-American activists who’ve had it up to here with nonblack performers ...

Defender of public’s right to know closes his case

WASHINGTON — In the current competition for credibility between mainstream media and social media, the first discipline suffered a severe blow Friday in the death of former Washington Post and PBS ombudsman Michael Getler at 82. So did all readers and viewers who value serious and informed ...

Students are walking out to polls

At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, students across Ohio walked out of schools to pay tribute to the 17 people killed — 14 of them teenagers — in last month’s gun massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In this same hour, a National Rifle Association spokeswoman sent ...

Abortion industry fears information on alternatives

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether pro-life pregnancy help centers in California should be required to post notices informing women of the availability of abortions elsewhere. The pregnancy help centers are contesting the law, disingenuously named the California ...

Hope Bannon never returns from tour

One of the things that motivated my old friend Andrew Breitbart was his righteous indignation at being called a racist. That’s a running theme in his book, “Righteous Indignation.” “Andrew Breitbart despised racism,” his friend Ben Shapiro told me. “He took pride in rejecting ...