The Despots of Democracy
"Last night hope for real change brought the smiles back to Greek faces after five long years": that was a fairly representative statement in the British left-wing press on the day following the Greek election. And ...
"Last night hope for real change brought the smiles back to Greek faces after five long years": that was a fairly representative statement in the British left-wing press on the day following the Greek election. And ...
Over the past few years I don"t know how many hours I"ve wasted reading articles in newspapers about the Greek debt crisis. It isn"t as if I could have affected it in one way or the other. Moreover, newspapers ...
Cott, Jonathan. Susan Sontag: the Complete Rolling Stone Interview Yale University Press, 2013. 168pp. $26/£15.99 Has Sontag dated? Born in New York in 1933, she was strongly associated with the 1960s counterculture and ...
Many of you will still be alive in 50 years. It’s interesting to think about what life will be like in 50 years technologically and otherwise. Predictions are risky, especially when they’re about the future, but ...
A strange thing happened on Saturday in Carey, North Carolina. During Black Lives Matter demonstrations, a group of white people, including police officers, cleaned the feet of black religious leaders and protest ...
Of recent months, several children of friends of mine have asked my help in preparing what they call a personal statement in their application for a job or place at university. Why they should ask me to help them is a bit ...
The recent terror attacks in Manchester and London have energized conspiracy mavens. Even a prominent CNN analyst suggested that the Manchester attack could be a "false flag" (to be fair, he was accusing evil white ...
What was it Orwell allegedly said? “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because men in suits are ready to put teenagers in clown makeup on the government’s list of dangerous gangs”? Doesn’t quite ...
Israel is one of the intellectually freer nations, which helps explain how an Israeli political philosopher, Yoram Hazony, has suddenly established himself as perhaps the most interesting thinker of the post–Merkel’s ...
Back in the good old days of 2,500 years ago, the Greeks blamed the gods for their self-induced disasters. In modern times the Brits were to blame and then the Americans. Now it's the Germans. Modern Greeks are not renowned ...
James Goad is the Chairman of the Worcester City branch of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). Despite the best efforts of many to dismiss the UKIP as a "fringe" group, it beat both the Labour and ...
After winning only six delegates in Wisconsin, and with Ted Cruz poaching delegates in states he has won, like Louisiana, Donald Trump either wins on the first ballot at Cleveland, or Trump does not win. Yet, as that huge, ...
So there's a frickin" rape quilt now. Remember the AIDS quilt? Back in the 1980s, gays swiped another quaint, wholesome, colorful thing (rainbows, anyone?) to trick us into thinking everybody could get AIDS, and not ...
"I love Anne Frank humor as much as the next guy" is a line I could never get away with. Fortunately, I"m not the one who said it. The quote is courtesy of Jill Soloway, one of the hottest names in TV right ...
If you hang out at dissident-right websites you surely know the Berthold Brecht quote: “Would it not be easier...for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?” This is offered on those ...
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The Week's Most Eugenic, Schizophrenic, and Hallucinogenic Headlines TRAYVON AND RODNEY: THE SEQUEL Our post-racial nation has found its new Trayvon Martin"albeit one bigger, fatter, and possibly even dumber"in the ...
The real estate market is back in the news, although, not surprisingly, it's now the mirror image of last decade's excesses. Ten years ago the prices of exurban tract homes in the sand states of California, Arizona, Nevada, ...
A good historian should be an annoyance. Most people want simple, pat answers to complex historical questions. Lousy historians give the people what they want. A genuinely competent historian can"t do that, even if it ...
In the 2016 Wisconsin Republican primaries, businessman Paul Nehlen (pronounced “kneelin’”) challenged soulless autocrat Paul Ryan but managed to snag only 15.9% of the vote. This year he is challenging Ryan again, ...
The Week’s Most Spurious, Notorious, and Vainglorious Headlines BIKERS v. MUSLIMS IN D.C. In what may disappoint readers who enjoy the occasional outburst of large-scale inter-civilizational violence, there appeared ...
I am never sure whether I should lament the state of the world or be complacent about it. For on the one hand everything is going to the dogs and on the other I am a happy man. Part of my happiness derives, of course, ...
NEW YORK—I received a letter from a longtime reader, James Hackett, inquiring about books I am reading. It is not often that I get letters that delight me, as this one did, especially when one reads letters from readers ...
The Week's Most Agitated, Denigrated, and Constipated Headlines CANADA PROPOSES IMPRISONMENT FOR ANTI-TRANNY "HATE SPEECH" Canada is a giant nation just north of the USA that sprawls the North American continent ...
These past months have been awash in the most crass sex crimes of recent memory. In each instance, debauched personalities have either been convicted or are currently facing trial, with good reason. Yet the incidents viewed ...
