Middle East
Syria’s False RevolutionMarch 05, 2012 A couple of weeks ago I wrote in this here mag about Syria. I played it safe. |
Europe
Charge Them With Corruption!February 27, 2012 I was sad to read that the Attikon Cinema on Stadiou Street in central Athens |
Middle East
Why Assad Has SurvivedFebruary 12, 2012 As I watched last week’s Western posturing after the Russo-Chinese veto of |
Afternoon Delight
Ship of CowardsJanuary 28, 2012 It wasn’t Italy’s finest hour. Not even Gabrielle D’Annunzio—poet, |
Media
The World’s Most Dishonest NewspaperJanuary 06, 2012 When I was last in the Big Bagel (as I call Noo Yawk), a policeman who’d been |
High Life
Receiving Oral at DelphiDecember 26, 2011 I flew to Delphi to consult with the oracle, and the old girl had a lot to say |
Christendom
The Folly of DisbeliefDecember 23, 2011 A reader has registered surprise that I am not an atheist. I am surprised that |
High Life
Once Upon a Time on the RivieraNovember 14, 2011 A recent libel case won by Lady Moore, wife of Sir Roger Moore of James Bond |
High Life
The Spectator’s Simple GeniusOctober 24, 2011 The London Spectator is the oldest weekly magazine of the English-speaking |
Beau Monde
Remembrance of Black American Fugitives PastOctober 17, 2011 Hearing about the black American fugitive who was caught recently after 40 |
Europe
Roundup of Europe’s MeltdownSeptember 25, 2011 OK. Things are heating up in the old continent after a boiling summer. October |
Beau Monde
Setting the Record Straight on Jackie OSeptember 16, 2011 Jacqueline Kennedy’s oral history is now out, as told to the Kennedy courtier |
Europe
The Vicious Circle of Greek PoliticsAugust 22, 2011 Most people in America don’t realize that Greece is a very new country—its |
Cultural Caviar
That Magical SeptemberAugust 15, 2011 On September 1, 1957, a pretty French girl by the name of Patricia and an |
Obit
Freud Slips Into the VoidJuly 26, 2011 I’ve had a longstanding instinctive loathing of those who perpetrate gimmick |
Scandal
Inappropriate Touching Among the UntouchablesJuly 14, 2011 We all know that the rich and powerful are seldom held accountable. Take, for |
Remembrance
Better a Hero Than a CelebrityJuly 04, 2011 I first met Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor in the summer of 1977 in Corfu. I was |
Israel
Pre ‘67 Borders or BustMay 20, 2011 Israel – Palestine – President Obama finally articulated last night what |
Vile Bodies
Liberal IndigestionMay 08, 2011 Some thirty years or so ago, my friend P. J. O’Rourke came to dinner at my |
Afternoon Delight
No Flowers for Charlie SheenApril 26, 2011 Gone are the days when I used to wear a tux to go see a Broadway show. These |
Middle East
The Middle East for DummiesApril 11, 2011 Let’s play the “What If?” game for a minute. What if I had written this |
Human Rights
Body-Waxing at the United NationsFebruary 25, 2011 Remember the old cliché about someone who is perpetually vacillating between a |
Vile Bodies
You Can’t Wax Lyrically About Brazilian WaxingFebruary 22, 2011 When a supermarket’s decision to put a modesty shield over a magazine cover |
Remembrance
Rest in Peace, Dear ElaineDecember 08, 2010 The death of anyone well known - especially in New York - invokes more clichés |