Something Is Rotten
The British government-funded cultural establishment's fawning and flattering but insincere attitude toward popular culture and the demotic was shown once again in a recent production of Hamlet at the National Theatre, with ...
The British government-funded cultural establishment's fawning and flattering but insincere attitude toward popular culture and the demotic was shown once again in a recent production of Hamlet at the National Theatre, with ...
“Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point, or by working power, over multitudes of superior men.” —Emerson It is a common error of intellectuals, and pundits in ...
The left's enthusiasm for Third World immigrants isn't only because they vote 8-2 for the Democrats. It's that Latin American peasants seem uniquely amenable to idiotic socialist schemes. You probably think it's beyond ...
The Week's Most Pugnacious, Rapacious, and Ungracious Headlines DNC IN PHILLY: WHITE PEOPLE TO THE BACK OF THE BUS Last week in the city where Mumia Abu-Jamal became a global celebrity for killing a white cop, the ...
An essential element of all postapocalyptic movies is the “precious object.” This is the thing that either the good guys are trying to find, or the bad guys are trying to steal or exploit. In The Road Warrior, the ...
The Week's Most Spiteful, Frightful, and Inciteful Headlines CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS ON POLICE SHOOTINGS While America burns due to misguided rage inflamed by the myth that trigger-happy white cops are gunning down innocent ...
In the week since my column “Crushing the Coronavirus Curve,” Americans and Britons have rapidly woken up to the pandemic threat and started to take action. One reason awareness grew so rapidly is because of the surge ...
While nonstop sermons aimed at whites to wash away their original sin of racism are on full throttle, spare a thought for poor old Jesse Jackson. The black activist who was running for president at the time called New York ...
While increasingly forgotten today, writer-director Oliver Stone might have been the most talked-about figure in American popular culture from 1986 through 1992, when the press suddenly went to war against him over his JFK ...
Is America exceptional? Once upon a time, hardly anyone dissented from the idea that the USA was different from all other nations. The "exceptional" sobriquet made the rounds when it became obvious that hereditary ...
I care nothing for football (soccer to Americans), but I was pleased when Portugal won the European Cup last Sunday. I would have preferred it to be Liechtenstein or San Marino, or best of all Vatican City"that is to ...
There were only a few refugees still on the seafront when I arrived in Bodrum (Turkey), and there were even fewer of them by the time I left a number of days later. Where and how they had all gone I do not know. The Greek ...
Here’s what a wise man recently said: “Our youth love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders, and no longer rise when a lady enters the room. They chatter instead of ...
Recently, it seems to me, there has been a concerted effort, amounting almost to a propaganda campaign, to persuade people that the brutalist strain in architecture was and is a glorious episode in architectural history. ...
After leaving dinner with my in-laws here in Brooklyn on Monday, I saw two men standing on the curb looking very righteous. One was Asian and the other was white, which in this area usually signifies they"re yuppie ...
Thursday's referendum in Scotland on independence from the United Kingdom is difficult for contemporary Americans to understand, since secession has been unthinkable in the United States from the moment Pickett's Charge at ...
GSTAAD—I’m not usually nonplussed, but this is very strange: The memoirs of Barbara Black, the wife of my good friend Lord Black, simply do not make sense where certain people she writes about are concerned, persons ...
By choosing a black actress to play the part of Anne Boleyn on a television series about the life of Henry VIII, the production company has, no doubt unwittingly, demonstrated how deeply entrenched racist attitudes are in ...
From my chalet high up above the village, I look up at the immense mountain range of the glistening Alps and my spirit soars. Even youthful memories receding into sepia cannot bring me down from the high. Mountains, more ...
I still haven"t memorized my cell phone number, or my husband's. I don"t remember the year my mother or father died, let alone the month and day. I can"t remember my wedding anniversary, either. However, ...
We hear an awful lot these days about the lamentable prevalence of mental cruelty being inflicted upon children, so it is with this in mind I reflect on the millions of apparently traumatized teenagers around the world who ...
I"m not sure if it's connected with the whole "gates of hell" thing, but you have to credit"if that's quite the right word"the Catholic church for accomplishing the previously unimaginable: Having first ...
My first memories of learning were The Iliad and The Odyssey. This was Greece, after all, and although it was mythology, as a three- to four-year-old I took Achilles, Helen, Menelaus, Hector, and Odysseus very seriously. ...
The Week’s Most Aggravating, Exasperating, and Humiliating Headlines Public shaming was a psychological cornerstone of communist societies. Although framed as “self-criticism” in both the Soviet Union and ...
