The Week That Perished
The Week’s Most Hellacious, Sebaceous, and Mendacious Headlines THE MOST UPTIGHT HALLOWEEN EVER This year’s All Hallow’s Eve brought with it yet another autumnal harvest of infantile racial hysteria and ...
The Week’s Most Hellacious, Sebaceous, and Mendacious Headlines THE MOST UPTIGHT HALLOWEEN EVER This year’s All Hallow’s Eve brought with it yet another autumnal harvest of infantile racial hysteria and ...
I suppose the secret of death is to choose not to expire on the same day as famous people. I read in Lapham’s Quarterly that JFK, C. S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all met with the man in the white suit on November 22nd, ...
Louis Smith is a British gymnast who won a silver medal in the Rio Olympics. He has just been suspended for two months by British Gymnastics because he is featured in a leaked video in which he and a friend appear to be ...
The age of Krapp. There went another year swirling down the plughole"one of the best ever, according to one salaried commentator. I don"t know about that. It was the year I turned 69. Salacious connotations ...
A fellow I know in town recently got divorced. I call him a “fellow” because it’s difficult to call him a man. He was a nice enough guy, and I suspect that was his main problem. Even pushing 50, he still was ...
Until last month, I lived in blissful ignorance of the existence of Mr. Manboobs. Ah, those were good days. But now that I"ve had the misfortune to become acquainted with him, I shall similarly curse you with the ...
The Week’s Most Swarming, Norming, and Storming Headlines THE FINAL SOIL-UTION It’s a popular meme: A wolf, spying a bunch of hunter-gatherers, muses, “Maybe I’ll befriend those humans; what’s the worst that ...
"Perhaps it all goes to show that the middlebrow is inherently corrupt." That's a particularly sweeping statement of smug class-conscious snobbery, even by Guardian standards. Guardian blogger Jonathan ...
I have no scientific evidence, no statistical data, that proves a decrease in beauty, just my own aging eyeballs that have been assessing the female form for decades. It’s sad what I’m seeing these days. The young ...
NEW YORK—At times I used to think the place was real. The New York of films, that is. The reality is an urban agglomeration of millions, most of them with a disinclination to speak English, and then there’s the ...
You’d think saving babies would be enough. Dobbs saved the babies. What more does the right need? “We won; pop the bubbly.” But that’s not how the right’s wired at the moment. Sure, saving babies is great and ...
By the time you read this, the Memories Pizza "gay wedding" story will have gone the way of every overhyped, outrage-inducing Internet meme, relegated to the "you"re still talking about this after two ...
It's spring, and so a young Catholic girl's fancy turns to picking out a confirmation name. Being kid-free, I was only reminded of this when a friend mentioned his daughter's struggle to settle on one. We females are ...
Everyone knows what to do about the COVID epidemic—except, of course, those who happen to be in charge. They are floundering like a fish newly landed on the deck of a boat. But if you go down to your local bar or pub, you ...
At the time it felt like a century, but it was only twelve years. I began this column in 1977 and the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, the latter calling for an end to my anti-communist tracts that my first editor, Alexander ...
The British Medical Journal reported last week that Dutch legislators are considering the extension of their law of euthanasia to old people who are not fatally ill but merely tired of life and who therefore wish to shuffle ...
After taping John Stossel’s show on May 16 in New York, the Mrs. and I took the 10 a.m. Acela back to Washington. Once we had boarded the train, who should come waddling up the aisle but Bill Kristol. The Weekly ...
As Marx famously noted, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” But before said “history” gets to repeat itself, it has to be born. And when “tragedy” and ...
In case you"ve been on vacation in an Internet-less corner of the world, you already know that Russia has a military presence in Crimea. And if you"re on Twitter or spend any time torturing yourself with the neocon ...
Some jerk know-nothing writes in an unreadable American newspaper that Greece is back—Athens, actually. He would; he’s an American who probably thinks that the lack of starving Greek beggars in the streets à la ...
The greatest criminal and most profitable enterprise the world over is FIFA. I write this as billions are watching obscenely overpaid footballers competing for a cup that is long overdue for a total remake. It was a very ...
Reality has made quoting Malcolm Muggeridge impossible. That’s OK by me, because between his willfully ignorant campaign against Life of Brian and his equally problematic crush on Mother Teresa, I never liked him ...
The trouble with vandalism is that it is fun, especially for people of modest accomplishment. The urge to destroy, said Bakunin, Marx's anarchist contemporary, is also a constructive urge, thus demonstrating remarkable ...
The grandest view of Gstaad and the surrounding Saanen valley bar none—and that includes the vista from my high-up-on-the-hill farm—belongs to an imposing house that was originally a sanatorium but is now a home for the ...
