Hollywood

‘First Man’: A Hair-Raising Series of Crises

Is First Man, Damien Chazelle’s moody and moving biopic featuring Ryan Gosling as astron...

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Deep Thoughts

Parthenoffspring of Interest

The continued thoughtless use of the word person continues to puzzle me. Who was the Per w...

Apocalypse Now

What to Do About Antifa and Black Lives Matter

In recent months Rep. Maxine Waters, former attorney general Eric Holder, and other powerf...

Joe Bob's America

The Apathy Party

SAN ANTONIO—In my college days I was a card-carrying member of the Apathy Party. Each ye...

Media

Fake News Autopsy

Whenever Donald Trump talks about fake news, there are howls of indignation from the estab...

Scandal

The World Looks the Other Way

Is Mohammad bin Salman a murderer? Is it fair to say he is a hairy coward who has starved ...

Lit Crit

Revisiting the Classics

One of the more curious books of 2018 is Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in ...

International Affairs

Should US-Saudi Alliance Be Saved?

Over the weekend Donald Trump warned of "severe punishment" if an investigation concludes ...

Hollywood

A Dead-Babies Movie for ALL of Us

It was 1 a.m. last Tuesday night, and I was drunk and conflicted. The drunk part is par fo...

Another Defenestration

Kanye West

Uncle Tom Goes to Washington

Kanye West made a lot of black people unhappy last week, and for that he deserves a cookie...

News

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Uxurious, Notorious, and Vainglorious Headlines IS HILLARY CLINTON ...

Architecture

Frankfurt, Germany

Eyesores Galore

Nearly three quarters of a century after his death, Hitler’s shadow continues to fall ac...

Women

The Battle of Wills Between the Sexes

Observing groups of women, one can perceive that the maternal sex has a preternaturally ac...