Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. —Pope American democracy, said H.L. Mencken, is “the worship of jackals by jackasses.” This definition is as harsh as it is ...
Thirty-nine years ago this week, New York Magazine printed a slice of wannabe-Wolfe reportage that spawned a star-making movie, one of the biggest-selling record albums ever, and numerous regrettable fashion and beauty ...
The Week’s Most Lucrific, Morbific, and Tenebrific Headlines CPAC’S PHARAOH PLAGUES THE JEWS The black vote. Is there anything more important to conservatives? No, there isn’t. The black vote wins elections for the ...
Socialists believe in equality and that all disparities in performance are due to hatred and greed rather than disparities in ability, which is supremely ...
How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? If you replied, "That's not funny!" you need to get with it. The correct answer is "the hot tub." That's according to The Atlantic's Sandra Tsing ...
At the nexus of Anton LaVey and Robert Anton Wilson lies Trevor Blake. In Confessions of a Failed Egoist and Other Essays, Blake combines The Doctor's brand of deadpan dark wiseacreing with the laughing Irish-Catholic sage ...
Is America still a serious nation? Consider. While U.S. elites were denouncing Donald Trump as unfit to serve for having compared Miss Universe 1996 to “Miss Piggy” of “The Muppets,” the World Trade ...
"The deflection tactic of Sundeen and his ilk deserves a name. It's being employed with such frequency, it's gone beyond being merely a cliché; it's now a full-fledged strategy." That was Taki's own David Cole, ...
Nice to be back in London, and Glebe Place is a delight. Mind you, it’s not the mansion I was expecting, just a very nice mews house on a very quiet part of the street away from the King’s Road. The noise of the city ...
Google has begun punishing “far-right” websites not only for their articles, but for whatever commenters say under the articles—which is almost impossible to police twenty-four hours a ...
The Week’s Most Uptight, Impolite, and Dynamite Headlines JUDGE ORDERS PRESS BLACKOUT OVER TOMMY ROBINSON ARREST Tanning salon owner, English Defence League founder and anti-Islam agitant Tommy Robinson was jailed for 13 ...
The recent study that showed atheists know more about religion than believers says tomes about the whole debate. Christians aren"t in it for the details. They"re in it for the good vibes. So why, pray tell, is a ...
"Mama Tried" is a popular prison tattoo and a tear-jerking Merle Haggard country ballad. The 1968 classic tells the tale of Merle breaking his mother's heart by going to jail: Mama tried to raise me better but her ...
President Trump's first 100 days are in the history books. So, what did we get, besides bunches of lousy MAGA hats? The quick answer: It depends on whom you ask. The New Yorker editor David Remnick authored a blistering ...
Three months ago, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Handcuffed, taken in and interrogated, Zimmerman told police Trayvon had been acting suspiciously that ...
Americans have finally reached the tipping point—or maybe the toking point—when it comes to legalizing marijuana: A recent Gallup revealed the country is now leaning 50% pro-pot. What I found most shocking about the ...
Freud said that dreams were the royal road to the unconscious—provided, of course, that the traffic was directed by him. His work has always seemed to me more like soothsaying than science, which perhaps explains its ...
In December 1964, a Silver Age of American liberalism, to rival the Golden Age of FDR and the New Deal, seemed to be upon us. Barry Goldwater had been crushed in a 44-state landslide and the GOP reduced to half the size of ...
Every schoolchild is taught that the evil Germans invaded Poland in 1939 because they loved killing people (usually infants). This crippled account of history with hatred as its crutch continues throughout high school and ...
JUPITER, Fla.—I feel like I need to confess my addiction, like a newbie in a 12-step program. My name is Joe Bob, and I’m an English major. I’m not asking for your pity. I’ve been trying to overcome this addiction ...
When, a little more than 45 years ago, we arrived in the city of Peshawar from Afghanistan, it seemed a peaceful and romantic place. True enough, the Khyber Pass had not been safe to travel after dark, but the danger was ...
I am “not isolationist, but I am ‘America First,’” Donald Trump told The New York Times last weekend. “I like the expression.” Of NATO, where the U.S. underwrites three-fourths of the ...
This past week’s events in Wisconsin’s Kenosha and Waukesha offer useful perspectives on a recent clash between pundits Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan V. Last of The Bulwark over the accuracy of the news media. Sullivan ...
What causes wokeness? Richard Hanania writes in his highly useful new book, The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics, that: Conservatives have blamed wokeness on ...
