A Besieged Trump Presidency Ahead
After a week managing the transition, vice president-elect Mike Pence took his family out to the Broadway musical “Hamilton.” As Pence entered the theater, a wave of boos swept over the audience. And at the ...
After a week managing the transition, vice president-elect Mike Pence took his family out to the Broadway musical “Hamilton.” As Pence entered the theater, a wave of boos swept over the audience. And at the ...
Remember the good old days when people used to kill themselves? Maybe I"ve seen too many movies"okay, no "maybe""but didn"t disgraced individuals take their lives more frequently once upon a ...
The late Jean-Claude Duvalier, better known as Baby Doc, played only a small part in my life. I arrived in Haiti for the first time two years after his downfall, during the presidency of the eminently respectable academic, ...
The F-35 is the latest marvel brought to us by the military-industrial complex. It’s presently years behind deployment schedule. It is also the most expensive military procurement program in American history. The ...
I have long admired taxi drivers. They are often well-informed and have a clear-eyed view of human nature that is neither cynical nor sentimental. In the days when there were such people as foreign correspondents, many a ...
Often I have thought, or supposed, that there must be a single unifying explanation of all the woes or social problems of the Western world, if only I could find it. But I have not found it: the nearest I have come to ...
The Week's Most Steroidal, Negroidal, and Hemorrhoidal Headlines WHITE MEN, WRONG WORDS Two elderly white men got in trouble last week for making the sort of comments that people who hate elderly white men expect them to ...
The Week’s Sassiest, Brassiest, and Gassiest Headlines ALYSSA “DEFUND THE POLICE” MILANO CALLS 911 ON SQUIRREL-SHOOTING DOMESTIC TERRORIST Formerly sexy actress Alyssa Milano is best known for her groundbreaking 1988 ...
When I first saw the mural of George Floyd with large angel wings, I assumed that it was a satire on his sanctification—effective, perhaps, but not in the best of taste. Shortly afterwards, however, I realized that the ...
President Obama pointedly requested Yityish Aynaw's presence at this week's banquet in his honor in Jerusalem. Will his eagerness to meet the first Ethiopian-born Miss Israel retire all those nasty "Is Barack secretly ...
NEW YORK—Let’s all dogpile on the Electoral College. It’s undemocratic, it’s outdated, it’s un-American. The New York Times (surprise, surprise) believes it should be abolished and we should go to a straight-up ...
In the classic Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze," Scotland Yard's Inspector Gregory asks Holmes, "Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" Holmes answers, "To the curious ...
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The Week’s Most Twisted, Delisted, and Ham-Fisted Headlines THE SOP-RINOS It’s hard to tell if National Review film critic Armond White is a rightist mirror image of a leftist movie reviewer who can’t appreciate art ...
As I may have mentioned now and then, there’s much wrong about the 2020s, but it’s also worth mentioning something right: We’re living in the golden age of airliner safety. The last fatal crash of a commercial flight ...
Charles Murray is a genius with a bad idea. Murray is an expert on IQ, but while not even he might qualify as a “genius” based on his own criteria, he sure as hell fits mine: Any guy who can write a book such as The ...
There seems to be growing anti-German feeling in France, at least if what I read is anything to go by (which it might not be, of course). For example, a book with the title Bismarck Herring (The German Poison) is on sale ...
I"ll be speaking to the American Renaissance conference at the end of this month. (What, you haven"t signed up yet? Still time!) Title of talk: "China, America, and the Chinese in America." I should be able ...
The burly, bearded, bellicose, belching, beer-bellied, barrel-chested, leather-vested bard and balladeer known as Hank Williams Jr.—aka “Bocephus”—will no longer be belting out the Monday Night Football theme as ...
The Week’s Most Galling, Appalling, and Caterwauling Headlines WHITE MALES FILE DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINTS In a cultural milieu so utterly inundated with negative stereotypes about white males that it may qualify as ...
A seldom-explained problem slowing the Democrats’ march to a permanent one-party state is that while their electoral grand strategy is impressively opportunistic, sleazy, and dangerous to the country, Democrats don’t ...
What things make us laugh? In all times and places the top draws have been sex, class, and race. The precise way these major themes tickle our funnybones varies with social trends, reflecting back to us the way ...
What do you call a socialist who tries to make money selling books? The answer isn"t just Noam Chomsky; it's every socialist who walks the earth. The soothsayers of post-scarcity love to criticize the profit motive ...
That was me last week. It was a doubleheader. Sunday the 20th I flew to Tucson for the "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conference at the university there. (Shouldn"t that be "towards"? Fowler: ...
