Guilt Complex
The selfie is perhaps the defining cultural artifact of our time. Me and the Mona Lisa, Me and the Pyramids, Me and the Colosseum, with the emphasis on the Me, of course; at least COVID-19 has put paid to all that for a ...
The selfie is perhaps the defining cultural artifact of our time. Me and the Mona Lisa, Me and the Pyramids, Me and the Colosseum, with the emphasis on the Me, of course; at least COVID-19 has put paid to all that for a ...
Over the long weekend before the Mississippi and Michigan primaries, the sky above Sea Island was black with corporate jets. Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, Napster’s Sean Parker, ...
The English writer E.M. Forster infamously said that if he had to betray either his country or a friend, he hoped he would betray the former. He was cheered for it by Oxford swells who had seen their elders slaughtered in ...
Often, when people who know me primarily through my writing meet me in person, what stands out to them the most is that I rarely cuss in person. It can be a little disconcerting, because in my writing, I cuss a lot. But ...
Back in April, former Canadian Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour mocked Mark Steyn and Nigel Farage's "weird obsession with sex" during a debate on the refugee crisis, after both men dared to mention Muslim ...
There is no magic in the new Cosmos"no angels or demons, no dragons in Eden, just cold dust and burning gas viewed through rose-colored glasses. No creator gods dominate the production, unless you count the divinized ...
The Week's Most Terse, Adverse, and Perverse Headlines HARLEM PASTOR BRINGS NEW MEANING TO THE TERM “FLAMING HOMOSEXUAL” Pastor James David Manning of Harlem’s ATLAH World Missionary Church proudly ...
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The West used to send Bible-waving missionaries to Africa to try and pry open the natives" eyes to the truth. Now it sends scientists. US Secretary of State John Kerry has said he will dispatch scientific experts to ...
History doesn"t repeat itself. Nevertheless, comparisons between the present and the past may be helpful"so long, at least, as one recognizes that circumstances are different. For many of us in the West, ...
The Japanese company Nikkei has bought the Financial Times, and I wish them well of it. There can be few duller publications in the world, in whose pages, unless one is interested in share prices and the like, one seeks in ...
A few years ago, someone opened fire on me in St. John’s Wood. If you’re surprised, spare a thought for me. I was stepping onto the crosswalk leading toward Regent’s Park when a moped approached at speed. There was a ...
NEW YORK—He came from a wealthy background but was always in trouble. His parents were not particularly religious, but nevertheless they insisted that little Jimmy read the Torah scroll and grow up to be a good Jewish ...
One little phrase in Le Monde's report of an incident in Nice"in which a man aged 30 called Moussa Coulibaly attacked with a knife three soldiers guarding a Jewish community center"caught my attention: rien de ...
Few disagree with the line from the old Jimmy Buffett song that “If we couldn’t laugh, we’d all go insane.” Yet in movies, humorless characters are funnier. There’s nothing more painful ...
I started blogging in 2000. Two years earlier, Matt Drudge had blown the whistle (as it were) on Bill Clinton's Monica problem after Big Media repeatedly passed on the story. Even before I started my own site, I was a ...
During the dog days of August, there was a brief flurry of partisan excitement when Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert denounced the White House’s student loan giveaway as, “Joe Biden is robbing hardworking ...
Will the curse of Oscar front-runnerhood undermine public enjoyment of La La Land? It would be delightful to stumble unwittingly upon this old-fashioned movie musical about a romance between an unemployed actress (Emma ...
Conservative nationalists in the U.S. are knuckleheadedly booting away their most persuasive case yet for rebuilding America’s industrial base: the shameful tale of how the Chinese were allowed to hoard almost all the ...
This has been the Year of the Vermin. With the Arab Spring, the black flash mobs, the London riots, and the OWS camper babies, we’ve had an eyeful of what “the people” really look like. It ain’t pretty. They don’t ...
I can"t believe I have to write about "cultural appropriation" again/now/anymore. But as another Clinton veers toward the White House, and a new Blair Witch movie debuts, why shouldn"t the Permanent Floating ...
With Tuesday's election, Israel is back in the news. I"m writing this Monday night, so I don"t know who has won. And you may not know either because Israeli politics are so carefully calibrated that governments ...
Hurricane Sandy's floodwaters have ebbed and the American Northeast's ravaged infrastructure has begun stitching itself back together. Taki's Mag mainstay John Derbyshire finally emailed on Sunday from Long Island to notify ...
Commencement speeches often give great advice on how to succeed, whom to befriend, and whom to love, but they never focus on the importance of hatred. I believe that choosing whom you will never speak to again can be as ...
The best thing about being a modern academic is that you don’t have to know anything or prove anything—you simply need to have the right political opinions. This makes it hilariously easy to hoodwink modern academics ...
