The Week That Perished
The Week's Most Antithetical, Heretical, and Asymmetrical Headlines ABUSING MUSLIMS IN PUBLIC Last week across this wonderful, bounteous, and sun-spackled land that we pretend is a nation, Americans were charged with ...
The Week's Most Antithetical, Heretical, and Asymmetrical Headlines ABUSING MUSLIMS IN PUBLIC Last week across this wonderful, bounteous, and sun-spackled land that we pretend is a nation, Americans were charged with ...
Mass looting throughout the nation. Police precincts burned to the ground. Murdered cops. An historic church in Lafayette Park set on fire. Video after horrifying video of innocent Americans being beaten senseless by gangs ...
Ever since last August's game-changing New Yorker article about the intergalactically wealthy Koch brothers and their unholy, unfeeling, and ecologically unsanitary war to harass and undermine Our First Black President, ...
If you still believe big business is, as novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand famously described it, "America's Persecuted Minority," then you must be on the same amphetamines she was taking. Conservatives have a ...
Since when did sexual harassment become the go-to reaction of women in the workplace? According to Kim Elsesser, author of the new book Sex and the Office, the widespread fear of sexual-harassment suits has made it nearly ...
The Week’s Most Porcine, Unclean, and Obscene Headlines WHY WE SHOULD ALL KEEP MISPRONOUNCING “KAMALA” Joe Biden promised the nation that he would pick a colored woman as his running mate, and now that he has ...
The Week's Most Mysterious, Delirious, and Unserious Headlines AL SHARPTON COMPARES HOLLYWOOD TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS The Right Reverend Al Sharpton is a black man of God who used to be very fat yet has become almost ...
A little over a week ago, Joe Biden was a corpse. Everyone assumed his presidential campaign was dead. He’s still a corpse, but now the serial plagiarist, groper, and forgetter is going to be the Democrats’ nominee for ...
A cloudless sky. Crunchy spring snow. Longer, warmer days—I finally got in some good skiing, twisting around moguls like an arthritic champ. It’s all in the mind, as my old wrestling coach would tell me: If you think ...
The average American family buys one or two presents for their kids and leaves the rest up to Santa. An informal survey I did among friends and coworkers comes up with 10% bought by parents and 90% made by Saint Nicholas. ...
I owe everything I know about British seaside resorts (such as the unfortunately named Blackpool) to three pseudo"kitchen sink movies and a single Squeeze song. No wonder I can"t fathom why anyone would care to ...
... such stuff as madmen Tongue, and brain not; either both, or nothing, Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such As sense cannot untie. ...
GSTAAD—Martha Gellhorn was a long-legged blond American writer and journalist who became Papa Hemingway’s third and penultimate wife. She got her start when H.G. Wells, then 70 years old, fell for her rather badly, ...
My best books are the ones I haven’t written. They are not yet even in the larval stage, but I know them to be profound and original in content and perfect in form. I am very proud of them, and the mere thought of them ...
"Blazing Saddles could never get made today." We all know how virulent political correctness has become. In fact, to cite another tedious cliché, it's been "going mad" (exclamation point optional unless ...
The Week’s Most Pneumonic, Teutonic, and Demonic Headlines ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: WORKERS OF THE WORLD, STOP WORKING! Are we the first to notice how much the shovel-faced communist Congresslady Alexandria ...
I am no great admirer of management as a science or of managers as people. The latter tend to speak a strange language, a jargon neither elegant nor poetic; they buy very dull books at airports, they are often shifty and ...
Even though she apparently lacks even a droplet of charisma, Miz Ara was slated to give a speech about, oh, vaginas and art or something at Oxford Brookes University until some perpetually aggrieved casualty of gender ...
This is my third “apartheid” column in a row—consider it the close of a trilogy. Several readers have noted the depressing nature and resigned tone of the previous two pieces, to which the best reply I can muster is, ...
The Week's Most Snappy, Crappy, and Nappy Headlines A BLACK PANTHER SUPER BOWL At halftime during this year’s Super Bowl"which featured a team named the Panthers who have a black quarterback"black singer ...
GSTAAD—Walking into a dinner party for fifty chic and some not-so-chic people in a nearby village last week, I was confronted by a tall man with horn-rimmed glasses who called me his neighbor but then added, “No, ...
The Week’s Most Glamorous, Clamorous, and Amorous Headlines SPORTS FANS BOO OPPOSING TEAM, WHITE SUPREMACY GETS BLAMED If there are two categories in which black people outperform nearly everyone else on the planet, ...
2019 turned out to be a good year for quality guy movies after all, as several veteran directors ignored the anti-male zeitgeist and just shot the films they’ve long wanted to make, such as Joker, Once Upon a Time...in ...
“How dare you say the truth—you must abide by our lies!” Such, in essence, was the recent plight of Lewis Hamilton, the Formula One race-car driver and whipping boy for the identity-politics puritans. The man had put ...
