The Week That Perished
The Week’s Most Inharmonic, Histrionic, and Cacophonic Headlines JEWISH SOAP OPERA Arguably, somewhere in the world there might exist a worse human being than Sacha Baron Cohen...but it’s doubtful. This is a guy ...
The Week’s Most Inharmonic, Histrionic, and Cacophonic Headlines JEWISH SOAP OPERA Arguably, somewhere in the world there might exist a worse human being than Sacha Baron Cohen...but it’s doubtful. This is a guy ...
We all thought it would be over by now. Home for the holidays with family and friends. Surely, modern science would solve the mystery of a murderous disease that none could have anticipated. Yet, it must be said that the ...
The sentencing of the governor of Jakarta to two years" imprisonment for blasphemy may seem like a throwback to medieval intolerance, but it is far more than that. It is a reminder that the suppression of the freedom of ...
If the Times actually practiced journalism instead of peddling ideology, they would realize that to qualify as a “white nationalist,” much less an “open” one, someone would have had to have said, at least once in ...
It has become hackneyed to say, like Ivan Karamazov, that without God everything is permitted. And though it is rather simplistic and question-begging, this statement comprehends some significant and enduring problems. One ...
In a heartening sign, a number of counties in Pennsylvania have chosen to defy Gov. Tom Wolf’s shutdown order. The Beaver County Board of Commissioners announced on May 8 that the District Attorney will not prosecute ...
The New York Times" first female executive editor was recently canned after only three years on the job, and geniuses from Gawker to New Republic instantly assumed it was because of her sex, though ovaries didn"t ...
Traveling between England and France recently was a profoundly depressing experience. First I had to get to Euston Station and then walk the few hundred yards to St. Pancras Station. The Euston Road, which runs between ...
I have never shared or understood the moral prejudice against homosexual acts. Even as a boy, I thought the legal penalties were unjust. A quarter of a century ago, I wrote an essay in which, among much else, I called for ...
Since 2008 the world has seen a good number of corporate catastrophes. So many, in fact, that a new subgenre of journalism called financial disaster tourism was invented by financial journalist and nonfiction author Michael ...
The Week’s Most Eclectic, Anorectic, and Apoplectic Headlines THE STUNNING AND BRAVE STATELY HOMOS OF TWITTER Back when The Simpsons was still relevant (and funny), there was an episode in which the Springfield gay-pride ...
Crazy Rich Asians, Hollywood’s new romantic comedy about a Chinese-American young lady and her aristocratic Singaporean boyfriend attending a lavish high-society wedding, is widely praised for being “inclusive” and ...
On a recent train journey from Paris to Nîmes, which took about three hours, I was unfortunate enough to sit across from a real plouc. Plouc is a wonderfully expressive word in French, almost onomatopoeic, for a nincompoop ...
In 1979, Margaret Thatcher won the first of her three terms as Britain’s prime minister. By 2012, however, no American woman has yet reached the presidency. The only woman to make a serious run was considered presidential ...
The Week’s Brainiest, Grainiest, and Zaniest Headlines EINSTEIN: NO FRIEND OF THE CHINAMAN Albert Einstein was an extremely smart mathematician whose theories helped lead to the atomic bomb, a terrifying weapon which has ...
The United Kingdom isn"t as old as most people seem to think it is. In its present form it won"t reach its centenary till 2022"assuming it gets there. It was created gradually. England annexed Wales in the ...
Semper ubi sub ubi. "Juvenal When Dorothy Parker said, "Brevity is the soul of lingerie," I don"t think she anticipated to what extent the modern woman would take this advice to heart, so to ...
Here we go again! Scary sofa samurai Robert Kagan, a neocon so-called foreign-policy scholar, is also an expert on war, having watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Kagan says that if Obama were to use force against Iran, the ...
As someone who was born at the tail end of the “Baby Boom” (1946-1964), I can say with good faith that I never voted to drive up the deficit, to flood the country with illegals, to outsource the good jobs overseas, or ...
Reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions, said David Hume, but by adding “ought to be,” I think he spoiled his argument, which was that, in the last analysis, moral judgment is not a matter of rationality. ...
Throughout his brilliant career, Michael Jordan was notoriously silent on political issues, even though many people urged him to speak out in support of left-wing causes. The greatest basketball player ever, it was widely ...
“All the News That’s Fit to Print” proclaims the masthead of The New York Times. “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” echoes The Washington Post. “The people have a right to know,” the ...
One of the most fervently held dogmas of the 1969 wave of feminism was that the only reason boys and girls liked different toys was due to sexist socialization. I was young in the early 1970s when androgynous “unisex” ...
The lockdown and its enforced boredom have been replaced by a consistent feeling of loss, my nephew by marriage Hansie Schoenburg, age 33, from a brain tumor, and my close friend Shariar Bachtiar, 72, most likely by his own ...
