High Life

Une Étoile est Née

Une Étoile est Née

CANNES—It’s raining, the stars are hiding, the hacks and paparazzi are waterlogged...

Relationships

Gays Didn’t Kill Marriage, Divorce Did

Gays Didn’t Kill Marriage, Divorce Did

On Tuesday, French iconoclast Dominique Venner blew his head off inside the Cathedral...

By the sword

The Freedom of Disunity

The Freedom of Disunity

Last week I gave a talk on my pet topic of bullfighting in front of various politicos...

Cultural Caviar

The Italian Invasion of American Culture

The Italian Invasion of American Culture

Ever since Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, the D-Day landings in northern...

Zeitgeist

Feeding Shirts to the Homeless

Feeding Shirts to the Homeless

Only last week, I railed against the masses’ naïve and patronizing compulsion to...

Cultural Caviar

The Progressive Glossary

The Progressive Glossary

I’ve recently been made aware of a strange new tribe who refer to themselves...

Borderland

Letters From a Screenwriter in Trouble

Letters From a Screenwriter in Trouble

Dear Gato— You really should try the ozone therapy—cleans your blood. Kiedis does...

Education

Let’s Not Let Boys Be Boys

Let’s Not Let Boys Be Boys

As Michael Moore so aptly pointed out in Bowling for Columbine, the root of the...

High Life

The Long Slide From Gatsby

The Long Slide From Gatsby

At an art shindig on Park Avenue, I spotted Baz Luhrmann, the director of the latest...

Crime

The Resurrection of English Murder

The Resurrection of English Murder

George Orwell was the first to mourn the decline of English murder. In his famous 1946...

Scandal

Frequently Asked Questions about the Jason Richwine Brouhaha

Frequently Asked Questions about the Jason Richwine Brouhaha

The social sciences are supposed to help us make better decisions about the future, not to slather us in schmaltz.

Bizarro World

The Fairy Skeleton of the Chilean Desert

The Fairy Skeleton of the Chilean Desert

Amid the din of social, political, and terroristic unrest that takes up so much of the...

The Untold Story

We Don’t Need Another Antihero

We Don’t Need Another Antihero

“We don’t need another hero,” sang Tina Turner in an otherwise forgettable Mad...

News

The Week That Perished

The Week That Perished

SPECIAL EDITION: A BAD WEEK FOR OBAMA (Disclaimer: Please disregard all of the...

Page 1 of 76 pages  1 2 3 >  Last ›