THE COLOSSEUM and the Roman Forum are under snow today. The city has experienced its first measurable snowfall in 26 years.

KEVIN MYERS, writing in The Independent, examines the differences between women’s and men’s tennis and the injustice of awarding equal monetary prizes to female and male champions. He also ponders the extent to which women’s tennis has become a matter of sexual allure.

  NANCY PELOSI spoke warmly yesterday of the official relationship between Planned Parenthood and the now thoroughly leftwing Girl Scouts of America. According to our top female elected leader, an organization that supports abortion, rough sex and masturbation is just fine for little girls.  Remember the dizzying hopes of the suffragettes? They foolishly argued that the entry of women into politics would make for [...]

  THE Huffington Post reported something stunningly new and unexpected this week. Conservatives are stupid. Surprise! It’s true: ”Intelligence Study Links Low I.Q. To Prejudice, Racism, Conservatism.”   The website posted a banner photo of the Klu Klux Klan over its piece, just in case you weren’t aware that conservatives are not only stupid, but very, very mean. Unfortunately, it did not post photos of [...]

  ALAN ROEBUCK writes: Atheism now has a confession of faith. It’s in my essay “No Evidence for God?” posted at Intellectual Conservative. The essay makes the elementary and crucial point that most atheists, when they try to rebut arguments for God, simply presuppose atheism. Viewing reality through atheism-colored glasses, they naturally see what they [...]

  N.W. writes: Despite my conservative views, I still listen to NPR on a regular basis. I really shouldn’t. It often gets me mad. However, I enjoy that NPR gears its programming towards a more intelligent audience. I really got riled yesterday morning, however, with a piece on an art exhibit in Italy exploring the rise of banking in Florence at the start of the Renaissance. The segment [...]

  A CANADIAN “professor of masculinity” proposes the abolition of masculinity. Would you expect otherwise? Marc LaFrance tells The Montreal Gazette: “The irony is the dominant norms of masculinity, what the academics call hegemonic masculinity – the breadwinner, the guy who never gets scared, the guy who is extremely successful – really make for an unlivable [...]

  LISA writes: While I would not say it was wise for 16-year-old Laura Dekker to sail solo around the world, I cannot think that she would have been “safer,” in the spiritual, cultural, and mental sense of that word, in a public classroom in the Netherlands.