The Post-Partisan Emporium

  All This Fury—Is It Really About Trump? Thoughts on women and rage Janice Fiamengo Feminist uproar over Trump’s election was easy to predict, and not long in coming. Within ten days of the election, Clara Jeffery wrote in  Mother Jones  that “ Women are furious—in a Greek mythology sort of way .” Taking examples from TikTok, Jeffery chronicled abundant “sorrow and disbelief and terror, but also incandescent rage,” which many women vowed to exorcise on men: “‘ If his ballot was red, his balls stay blue ,’” she quoted one. In  The New York Times , a 16-year-old girl, Naomi Beinart, charted her tumultuous emotions, which included a sense of betrayal because her male classmates had carried on with their lives on the day after the election, seemingly immune to the girls’ all-pervasive gloom and outrage. “ Many of them didn’t seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair . We don’t even share the same future,” Beinart opined melodramatically. No one with even a minimal a...

  The Inversion of The Hero Whatever the official narrative is, the opposite is true William Hunter Duncan The point is, Luigi Mangione is neither a hero nor a martyr, but merely a sign of what is coming for the elite public and private of the West, if they keep up their predatory ways. That is as inevitable as the seasons. Our elite in their insulated obtuseness might yet turn him into a hero or martyr, if they continue the plunder. It does not have to be that way, a true restoration of America would include necessarily, the elite of America restoring something of a sense of noblisse oblige, taking care of the economy to benefit their fellow Americans, give us a sense of meaning and purpose, make us feel strong and secure in our status as citizens. We are not some resource to eternally exploit. Get it? I think some of our elite do, I remain optimistic. It think Trump understands that, and a lot of his administration. If our elite restore something of the promise of America, Mangio...