March 23, 2026

When Vogue Chooses American Presidents

Ten years ago, I listened to former Hague prosecutor Geoffrey Nice complain that he was sick of people like George Clooney, who 'know nothing about international law and conflicts and only make the work of professionals harder.' My favorite rebel against political correctness, celebrity moralizing, and performative activism is Ricky Gervais, a sociologist and philosopher who created the, for some of us, iconic BBC series 'The Office.' The very term 'political correctness' is inaccurate; for years, it has been absurdly used to encompass disrespect for individual freedoms. Multiculturalism, another progressive Hollywood-Netflix 'woke' craze, is also democratically very deficient, and sometimes brutal. How do you 'respect' a culture that manages to mutilate the genitals of ninety-five percent of Somali girls and women? Compare how many times this has been discussed at the Golden Globe and Oscar ceremonies, versus how many times the 'genocide' in Palestine has been. The clientelist-fashionable, activist Serbian scene adheres to the same principle of disproportionately rare acknowledgment of Serbian victims compared to all others in the conflicts of the nineties. The ethnicity of these victims is not 'in donors vogue'; it does not contribute to achieving predetermined goals. I canceled political correctness long ago, before it canceled me.