Just as Rodney Dangerfield once went to a fight and a hockey game broke out, the Justice Department, George Soros, and the national media encouraged yet another crime spree in poor Ferguson, Mo., over the weekend on the stated assumption that a Michael Brown protest would emerge. Why has the ...
It's informative to compare two current memoirs focused upon race: the rapturously welcomed Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which I reviewed a week ago, and The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America by the veteran Irish-American comic Colin Quinn, last seen ...
I have found that, in the African-American oral tradition, if the words are enunciated eloquently enough, no one examines the meaning for definitive truth. —Biracial novelist Mat Johnson, Loving Day, 2015 America's foremost public intellectual, Ta-Nehisi Coates, has published a new ...
With the Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O"Malley being shouted down at a progressive convention for not abasing themselves fully enough to a Black Lives Matter rent-a-mob, it's worth taking a look at what some cities could quite feasibly do to hire better ...
Works of art looted by the Nazis remain a subject of much fascination in the 21st century. This year's movie Woman in Gold with Helen Mirren as a Los Angeles woman battling in court to get back her aunt's Gustav Klimt painting did well at the box office. Last year's George Clooney-directed ...
The concept of America being divided into sprawling red Republican regions and dense blue Democrat districts first became a cliché In November"December 2000. Over the past decade and a half I"ve probably thought as much about the underlying reasons as anybody, and in this column I"d ...
Immigration, with its bumptious reality of comically mercenary fraud covered up by pious cant, provides Ann Coulter with the best topic of her career in ¡Adios, America! The quantity of humbug emitted about the sacredness of immigration has reached laughable levels since Mexican monopolist Carlos ...
Are American actors in decline due to the rise of better-trained British leading men, as an Atlantic article by Terrence Rafferty contends? Sure, the younger Brits are more skilled actors on average, but when wasn’t this true? Cary Grant, for example, was the greatest romantic-comedy leading ...
As you may have noticed, the more denunciations we hear of Cisgender Straight White Male Privilege, the more the evidence mounts that, all else being equal, the rewards in 2015 tend to lie on the other side. If you want to know which side is more powerful at present, just observe who is wielding ...
Love & Mercy is a superb new biopic about head Beach Boy Brian Wilson's creative summit in 1966, the year of the groundbreaking Pet Sounds album (featuring the sublime "Wouldn"t It Be Nice" and "God Only Knows") and follow-up "Good Vibrations" mega-single, the ...
