We don’t get a lot of emails from the Pulitzer Prize committee here at the Washington Free Beacon, so when I received one in November of last year asking me to serve as a member of a Pulitzer Prize nominating jury, I was sure it wasn’t real—possibly a…
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‘Corpse of the Phallus,’ Black Latex, and Circus Performers: Meet The Avant-Garde Artists Arrested For Violently Storming Columbia Library
Before Isaiah Decastro Nash was arrested for storming a Columbia University library, the philosophy undergraduate dabbled in poetry. “The primordial trauma of existence is the death and rot of God. The corpse of God; the corpse of Death; the corpse of Time; the corpse of the Phallus,” he…
Biden’s Highly Paid Enablers at MSNBC
The media’s role in covering up Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is getting more attention ahead of the release of a new book by journalists Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios. Some have argued the media tried their hardest and can’t be blamed for failing to…
Republican Looks To Dismantle ‘Eyesore’ White House Peace Vigil
Peace out! A GOP lawmaker is demanding the Department of the Interior take action against the White House Peace Vigil, an encampment encased in tarps that’s been pitched across from the White House since 1981 and is believed to be the longest-running continuous protest in U.S. history. It…
ANALYSIS: Jordon Hudson Outshined and Outclassed by Historic Transgender Contestant at So-Called Beauty Pageant
Jordon Hudson, the widely despised girlfriend of cheating NFL coach Bill Belichick, placed a humiliating third over the weekend at a so-called beauty pageant in Maine, one of America’s least attractive states. Belichick, 73, looked on as Hudson, 24, failed to take home the top prize at the…
CRAZY IN LOVE: Left-Wing Democratic House Candidate Dating Ben Collins, Former NBC News ‘Misinformation’ Expert
Kat Abughazaleh, the 26-year-old Democratic influencer running for Congress in Illinois, is dating Ben Collins, the former “misinformation” expert at NBC News who recently became CEO of The Onion, a satire website that used to be funny. The Chicago Tribune accidentally broke the explosive story on Monday by…
Keeping Up With the Clintons: How the Bidens Went Broke, and How to Fix It
Mark Halperin reports on what is likely the real reason behind Joe Biden’s return to the public spotlight in recent days, which some have suggested is an attempt to “fight back” against damning revelations about his cognitive decline. “Biden, Inc., needs a source of revenue,” he said, citing…
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Launches Civil Rights Probe of Harvard’s Hiring Practices
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating whether Harvard University unlawfully hires faculty based on race and sex, arguing that the school’s own data provides evidence of discrimination. The probe is the latest federal action against the beleaguered university, which last month sued the Trump administration over its…
Weekend Beacon 5/11/25
Welcome to our special Mother’s Day edition of the Weekend Beacon, featuring all the subjects we love discussing with our mothers: faith, sex, drugs, and politics! (Okay, not all the subjects.) We begin with Mary Eberstadt, who reviews Ross Douthat’s Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. “Believe is vintage Douthat, marked by genial…
Pocahontas 2.0
“What I didn’t like about becoming famous overnight,” Mallory McMorrow writes in her new book Hate Won’t Win: Find Your Power and Leave This Place Better Than You Found It, “is that you might assume that I had always done this, that somehow it came naturally.” Unless you’re…