Whitewashing the Blackboard
Here's some more good stuff from the "academy" to get 2016 really rolling. It concerns Cecil Rhodes, the empire builder who left an Oxford University college more than 50 million big ones in today's money with the ...
Here's some more good stuff from the "academy" to get 2016 really rolling. It concerns Cecil Rhodes, the empire builder who left an Oxford University college more than 50 million big ones in today's money with the ...
When I’m asked why I never had kids, my standard answer is, I’ve spent my life in mortal fear of being tethered to another human in a manner from which I can’t legally walk away if I choose. That’s an honest ...
I share my Taki colleagues" dismay and disgust regarding the fly-by-night carnival I"m obliged to refer to"in accordance with his mother's stated wishes"as the Trayvon MartinTM Affair. I, too, detect that ...
The Week’s Most Incredible, Inedible, and Regrettable Headlines POLITICS: GOVERNMENT REOPENS, RESUMES OVERSPENDING The federal government reopened for business last week and wasted no time dumping another $329 ...
I'm neither heartbroken nor surprised that President Kushner didn't get a second term. The good news is, Republicans are finally talking about vote fraud! Going forward, the GOP's sole objectives should be: 1) End mail-in ...
Last night, while perusing the periodicals, I read that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held a rally inside a sweaty gymnasium somewhere in Conway, New Hampshire (which is a country, I think). Now, I"m ...
However the Greek crisis ends, whether with Athens leaving the eurozone, or submitting and accepting austerity at the dictates of its creditors, the European Union appears headed for an existential crisis. Greece borrowed ...
NEW YORK—“Men of good will” is an expression you don’t hear much anymore. It’s used mostly by the courts, especially when the topic is contract law, because when two guys sign an agreement, they’re expected to ...
Two female soldiers are suing the US military for "violating the rights of servicewomen by excluding them from certain military positions and from ground combat units because of their gender." In wars past, it has ...
The hubbub surrounding last week's announcement that "Underground Railroad" conductor Harriet Tubman would be movin" on up to the obverse of the twenty-dollar bill led me to flash back to how I first entered the ...
A few weeks ago, when a virginal loser with a gopher’s ass for a beard shot up the offices of a Maryland newspaper, social media was flooded with tweets from members of the press (a.k.a. America’s least trusted ...
NEW YORK—I’m in an extremely happy state as I write this because a young Englishman flew over the ocean just to have lunch with me and ask for my daughter’s hand in marriage. This is how things used to be done, but ...
The Week's Most Acidic, Hasidic, and Anti-Semitic Headlines EUROPE LOVES ITS NEW REFUGEES! As CNN and USA Today tell the story, the citizens of Europe erupted on Saturday in an ebullient, warm, kindhearted, and accepting ...
CORONIS—I suppose there’s always a first time, and looking back it was bound to happen. I scrambled off a sailing boat and took the coward’s way out after being bashed about by an angry Poseidon and a furious Aeolus. ...
The Week’s Most Imperious, Unserious, and Deleterious Headlines BALTIMORE SETS A HOMICIDE RECORD IN 2017 It is becoming increasingly evident that the Black Lives Matter movement may be responsible for more black deaths ...
I just flew back from England, and boy are my arms tired of the way their middle class sees the world—especially when ours is headed in the same direction. Their media is currently blabbing on and on about ...
He (or she) who lives by Twitter dies by Twitter, so it seems, and it is best for your peace of mind to keep your immortal thoughts away from this pernicious medium altogether. A publisher has just withdrawn the ...
As the political races of 2020 emerge, we’re going to see some remarkably weird and hilarious ads. The first to receive that nod belongs to Valerie Plame. The former spy has filmed something that looks less like a ...
Poor Felicity Huffman is being raked over the coals for paying a lousy $15,000 to get her daughter extra time to take the SAT. Jared Kushner's father paid $2.5 million to get him into Harvard -- and arranged for two of ...
Sixty years ago this week all hell broke loose: Soviet tanks rumbled into Budapest and put down a nationalist uprising in a very bloody manner. Down south, Anglo-French paratroopers jumped into the Sinai and in cahoots with ...
Last Friday proved a more eventful one than usual in New Zealand: on top of the usual weekend hustle, the Kiwi nation hosted the wedding of one Travis McIntosh to his partner, Matt McCormick. As it took place at the ...
In his second term, Richard Nixon had Watergate, but also the rescue of Israel in the Yom Kippur War. In his second term, Ronald Reagan had Iran-Contra, but also a treaty eliminating U.S. and Soviet missiles in Europe, his ...
PIERCING LBJ's HALO Those who do not learn from history are doomed to watch stupid Hollywood movies about it. The film Selma, set for release on Friday, is said to be the first major Hollywood drama featuring Martin Luther ...
I just flew back from Los Angeles and boy, are my ears tired. The Obamaniacs there are even more brainwashed than their New York comrades. They have no problem with the president's limitless spending or his warmongering ...
