Yeah, that's right"I went there. No, I don"t mean the gay bar (although I did go there, too). I mean I used "tail" instead of "tale" because the story I"m telling involves a dog, a pun so tired ...
The International Workers’ Disco Party known as May Day came early to Cleveland this year, but instead of starting with a bang, it began with a profoundly dumb silence on the evening of April 30. That’s when five ...
People often compare video gamers to crackheads, but that’s unfair. Crackheads are way more motivated to get out of the house. While gamers cozy up on the couch to battle orcs and inhale their own farts, crackheads ...
I’m back from two weeks in semi-self-imposed Twitter gulag after having refused the tech monopoly’s Darkness at Noon-style demand that I personally delete two of my tweets for being “hateful.” The requirement that I ...
As the professional golf season crests this week at the U.S. Open, it's worth noting that the game, while still growing in popularity among the robber barons of ex-communist countries like China and Russia, has been in ...
On Sept. 30, the end of fiscal year 2016, the national debt is projected to reach $19.3 trillion. With spending on the four biggest budget items—Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, defense—rising, and GDP ...
Irving Kristol (sort of) said, "A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged," a quip which, besides not being as true as it should be, rather perversely makes me think of Clay Aiken. After all, Aiken was robbed ...
Another British royal wedding is hoving ineluctably into view. I was at the last one. The memory of that candyfloss patriotism still makes me puke. Noam Chomsky likes opining about the “manufacture of consent.” Royal ...
Like all Americans, I've been deeply moved and horrified by the recent spate of mass shootings. Surely, I thought, there must be some common sense gun regulations that could put an end to the carnage -- red-flag laws, ...
Generosity, in this egotistical world, is perceived as weakness, and therefore rewarded with disdain. This is the problem of the welfare state—largely funded by white men—in regard to blacks and women, both full of ...
The Week’s Most Chiding, Abiding, and Yuletiding Headlines SOMETIMES YOU RAP THE WINDOW, AND SOMETIMES THE WINDOW RAPS YOU “When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.” —Maria, The Sound of ...
The ex-Soviet satellite state of Estonia is home to slightly over a million people and is smaller than Vermont and New Hampshire combined. Yet in the contentious debate between "austerity" and ...
The world is a dangerous place whose inhabitation always ends in death. Is it because or in spite of this that we enjoy scaring ourselves with imaginary dangers? We thrill at trivia in order to forget the overwhelming fact ...
Leftists truly understand the power of labels. They know that labels, properly utilized, have the ability to stigmatize and marginalize. "Cisgender" is a perfect example. The left has persuaded millions of people to ...
Robert Harris’ new novel, Munich, will be published in September. It’s too early to review it, but I’ve read a proof copy and can say it’s as intelligent and gripping as one has come to expect from Harris, while the ...
Now that the Georgia runoffs are over, let's talk about Donald Trump. When we really needed all hands on deck in Georgia, Trump was a wrecking ball. He went down to Georgia and insulted everyone, refusing to talk about ...
GSTAAD—I experienced my first Zoom conference last week, and didn’t think much of it. As the great Yogi Berra once remarked, “You can observe a lot just by watching,” but in my case I observed very little and heard ...
When lawmen break the law, there is no law. During a fortnight when the American establishment wasn"t handing out machine guns to heavily medicated dissociative personalities with self-reported head wounds or ...
Are you getting the sense that black Americans are incapable of being happy unless they’re destroying ...
The Week’s Most Contentious, Pretentious, and Sententious Headlines INTERSECTIONAL SQUABBLING AT THE OSCARS This year’s Academy Awards ceremony"cohosted by Ellen Degeneres, Karl Marx, and Herbert ...
I"ll just come right out and say it"in my column two weeks ago, in which I interviewed three well-known Trump diehards"I straight-out lied to my readers. But I am coming clean. One of my interview subjects, ...
In this decade, America’s most effective conservative activist has likely been Chris Rufo, who in 2020 came up with a winning euphemism for all the racist antiwhite hate suffusing our schools, streets, and screens during ...
The difference between stereotypes and clichés is that stereotypes are mostly accurate, and clichés mostly aren"t. Oscar Wilde turned platitudes inside out""It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you ...
It's a shame how tragedy ignites the public's attention span. But "If it bleeds, it leads" works for a reason, so we might as well accept it. The terrible and unfortunate murder of 32-year-old Californian Kate ...
