Bland ‘Finale’
Operation Finale is a decently crafted, reasonably accurate retelling of the kidnapping from Argentina of Adolf Eichmann (played by Sir Ben Kingsley), the most notorious supervisor of the Holocaust still on the loose in ...
Operation Finale is a decently crafted, reasonably accurate retelling of the kidnapping from Argentina of Adolf Eichmann (played by Sir Ben Kingsley), the most notorious supervisor of the Holocaust still on the loose in ...
In the 1972 black comedy The Ruling Class, Peter O’Toole plays Jack, a paranoid schizophrenic British nobleman who thinks he’s Jesus. Jack’s family members hatch a plot to seize his fortune and have him committed, but ...
False allegations about the propaganda technique known as the "Big Lie" have been repeated ad nauseam to the point where, with eye-gouging irony, it has all congealed into a fresh new Big Lie of its own. Two ...
Whether the establishment likes it or not, and it evidently does not, there is a revolution going on in America. The old order in this capital city is on the way out, America is crossing a great divide, and there is no ...
Just like pandas, white people are fast becoming an endangered species out there in their traditional areas of natural habitat, and for the same basic reason, too—namely, a strange reluctance to keep producing enough new ...
The Week’s Most Squirmy, Wormy, and Germy Headlines SINEAD O’CONNOR IS NOW ISLAM’S PROBLEM Sinead O’Connor is a mentally ill bag o’ postmenopausal bones whose chief achievement is having a weird first name ...
“Disheartening and demoralizing,” wailed Judge Neil Gorsuch of President Trump’s comments about the judges seeking to overturn his 90-day ban on travel to the U.S. from the Greater Middle East war ...
On Tuesday, the New York Post ran a headline that said, "Denise selling out USA." They claim that Denise Rich, millionaire ex-wife of oil tycoon Marc Rich (whom the Post describes as a "fugitive tax cheat") ...
Last week I stayed in a part of London on the border between a rich and a poor part of the city: on one side houses costing millions, on the other side social housing for the city’s hewers of wood and drawers of water, or ...
The Week's Dumbest, Numbest, and Glummest Headlines BIBI ABSOLVES ADOLF Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who just so happens to be Jewish, sparked a thunderous outcry of digital “oy, gevalts” last ...
Occasionally I’ve been known to slightly embellish a story for comedic effect, but the one I’m about to relate is 100% true. The house next door to me is cursed. Wait, no, that’s not the 100% true part...that’s ...
If it hadn’t arrived I’d be dead, but it was hardly welcome: another birthday. Thirty-eight years old on Aug.11, but for any pedant or two, reverse the numerals and you’ll get it right. Thirty-eight came to me as I ...
As a child, the only list I had ever heard about was the FBI Ten Most Wanted. Then a lady who wrote about fashion"Eugenia Sheppard, I believe"made a list of the ten best-dressed women in the universe, and the dam ...
I was not surprised Chuck Hagel had to go. After all, he was among the very few in governments of late who had ever seen combat, not to mention to have been wounded. Men of his ilk do not draw their swords at the drop of a ...
If someone shoots up the FRC again, will the SPLC get away with it ...
In some countries, including my own, there has been of late an increasing tendency to the Nigerianization of the economy: that is to say, the hope of wealth not by increasing it in aggregate but by participation in one ...
I see the pro-abortion crowd is still bragging about their "10-year-old rape victim," lamenting that the poor kid had to travel all the way from Ohio to Indiana to get the abortion. They make it sound like a trek from Iran ...
I recently finished filming a series of commercials for a world-famous fashion designer I’d barely heard of, and he gave me one of his company’s handbags as a parting gift. I thought, “Cool, ...
I write this during the weekend that finally saw the end of those two dreadful Chechens who were described by many newspapers"starting with the Times, of course"as typical American teenagers. Why is it that after ...
It has been very hot in my part of France lately. Not far away, the temperature in the shade has been as much as 45 degrees centigrade (113 Fahrenheit). No doubt it is often hotter in the Empty Quarter of Arabia or in the ...
The Week's Most Febrile, Infantile, and Juvenile Headlines WILL DRESDEN BURN AGAIN? As everyone knows, Germany is the most evil place in the history of the universe. Therefore, it follows that anyone who attempts to ...
One oddity of discourse is that novel phrases seem more likely to catch on if their meanings are opaque than if they are self-evident. Having to know a semisecret code makes phrases such as “motte and bailey argument” ...
“Trump’s immigration proposals are as dangerous as they are stunning,” railed amnesty activist Frank Sharry. “Trump ... promises to rescind protections for Dreamers and deport them. He wants to ...
The Irish Post Office has issued a stamp to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Ernesto Guevara. This is, presumably, because he was both very famous and had some distant Irish ancestry. It is, however, a ...
