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They bring tens of millions of 7th-century Muslim immigrants to 21st-century Europe and then clamp down on Europe for resisting the unnatural graft. They bring tens of millions of subliterate irredentist Mexicans to ...

Grand Central Station

Adios, Manhattan

This is my last week in the Bagel and I’m going to give it the old college try. Two weeks without booze, ciggies, or ladies have made Taki a very dull boy. The next seven days—nights, rather—will decide. The ...

Robert De Niro

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Crustiest, Rustiest, and Mustiest Headlines ROBERT DE NIRO EXPRESSES WEIRD SCATOLOGICAL SEXUAL FANTASY ABOUT DONALD TRUMP Robert De Niro is a formerly great actor who, alas, has gone paunchy and senile. Along ...

The Moral Implications of Dwarf Tossing

In late January of this year, an event occurred which may have dramatic implications for our conception of human dignity, our understanding of the individual's place in society, and perhaps even for the eternal dream of ...

Those Sweet, Surly Bonds of Earth

Why is it that all our heroes inevitably try to kill us? From Winston Churchill to Albert Einstein, the people we laud the most were, at one point, responsible for great harm done, and not always by their own intention. ...

Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett

Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett Presents “Wacky Vaxxers!”

If I were Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, I’d cool it with the boasting. I’m a bit more weathered and wizened than the 34-year-old immunologist currently being touted as the “curer of Covid,” and one lesson I’ve gleaned ...

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Urgent, Divergent, and Insurgent Headlines RAINBOW LACES, TRANSGENDER BAPTISMS, AND A BOY IN A GIRL SCOUT DRESS February is not only Black History Month, it is also LGBT History Month, at least in the USA ...

Eggs Over Black

Activists set a new low in terms of abject stupidity this week by haranguing brunching millennials in that known fascist stronghold we call Manhattan. Called "€œBlack Brunch,"€ leftist hooligans in New York are hitting ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Smoldering, Moldering, and Soldering Headlines SMILE FOR THE KHMERA Remember Jill Greenberg? Probably not by name, but perhaps by deed. In September 2008 it was totally cool for leftists to be hatin’ on ...

Speaking UNOGese

On a recent visit to Geneva, somebody handed me a pamphlet titled 170 Daily Actions to Transform Our World, produced, so an understandably self-effacing line on its rear inside cover informed readers, by the Perception ...

Thin Man

In director Christopher Nolan’s campaign to save moviegoing from technological and social obsolescence, his latest ploy is his most clever yet: to lure grown-ups with three-digit IQs to see his Oppenheimer in numbers that ...

Thilo Sarrazin, and the Germans’ Great Mistake

Throughout the summer, former director of the German Bundesbank and a longtime adherent of the German Social Democrats, Thilo Sarrazin, remained in the crosshairs of the German political class for his controversial work ...

Fake News, Fake Rednecks

Imagine if an award-winning American journalist had spent three weeks in Eastern Germany and written a feature article about secret bunkers where neo-Nazis were training to usher in a Fourth Reich. I think most Americans ...

Gaza: The Cold Sore of the World

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the world’s chronic illness. It’s our herpes, our diabetes, our Crohn’s disease. There is never going to be a resolution. Not in my lifetime, not in this age. Maybe a hundred years ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Stoned, Boned, and Bemoaned Headlines “VEE HAFF VAYS OF MAKING YOU NOT TALK.” Last week saw the 79th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, a.k.a. the day the Japanese favored the world with a strikingly vivid ...

Don Cherry

Hockey Night in Haiti

Those stopped clocks who run Canada's state broadcaster aren"€™t even right twice a day. The best they can manage is once a week. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) says taxpayers must keep funding this great ...

Rob Ford

St. Rob Ford the Baptist

They won"€™t have Rob Ford to stub their toes on anymore. Last week, the ex"€“Toronto mayor, struck by a rare form of cancer, was checked into palliative care, the "€œcouples counseling"€ of medical ...

In Praise of Restraint

On the whole I am in favor of freedom of expression, though sometimes I am equally in favor of freedom from expression. God preserve us from film stars telling us what they think about the situation in Somalia or the ...

Trump Did Not Flip-Flop on Immigration

Remember last week when Trump tanked his campaign by flip-flopping on immigration? Few do. It was almost seven days ago and this campaign is about turning every glitch the GOP faces into a nuclear war, then quickly moving ...

The Petrayal of Petraeus

Why is it that adultery can ruin a man’s career but rarely a woman’s, at least in so-called civilized countries? (In Saudi Arabia an adulterous woman is stoned to death.) An American diplomat slated to become the next ...

Beheading of St. John the Baptist on the baptistery from Benedetto Antelami. Parma, Italy

Killing Time

For reasons unnecessary to go into, I once found myself at a loose end for a few months on the island of Jersey in the English Channel. For something to do I went into the archives and researched a book about three murders ...

Brandon White

The Gang That Couldn’t Punch Straight

Is it ever permissible to find a "€œhate crime"€ funny? Granted, "€œfunny"€ is in the eye of the beholder, and I"€™d wager that any pair of eyeballs not irreparably stained by armchair sadism would likely not ...

Marine Le Pen

America and France Turn Right

In Sunday’s first-round of regional elections in France, the clear and stunning winner was the National Front of Marine Le Pen. Her party rolled up 30 percent of the vote, and came in first in 6 of 13 regions. Marine ...


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