The Week That Perished
The Week's Most Pathetic, Emetic, and Herpetic Headlines THE ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS ANOTHER HEAD The 9/11 attacks were possibly the most striking and well-orchestrated act of political theater in world history. Modern ...
The Week's Most Pathetic, Emetic, and Herpetic Headlines THE ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS ANOTHER HEAD The 9/11 attacks were possibly the most striking and well-orchestrated act of political theater in world history. Modern ...
Catholic libertarian Jeffrey Tucker recently introduced us to the concept of "libertarian brutalism." The distilled version: Libertarianism is well and good, but can"t we do something to make sure people only ...
The Week’s Most Teachable, Reachable, and Unimpeachable Headlines ILL-STARRED INTERSECTIONALIST Somebody get that sista a rabbit’s foot! There’s bad luck, and then there’s Dr. Crystallee Crain, the urban ...
NEW YORK—So I’m standing behind a guy at the drugstore who says, “I’m sorry, I don’t have anything smaller,” and he pulls out a roll of hundreds. In any other city this would be a drug dealer. But I live a few ...
Pope Francis’s four-day visit to the United States was by any measure a personal and political triumph. The crowds were immense, and coverage of the Holy Father on television and in the print press swamped the state ...
Hey, white people! Have you had your “racial sympathy index” measured lately? Or ever? No? Nazis! Well, whether you know it or not, the “racial sympathy index” is a thing. Is it a good thing? Take a wild ...
With the NBA Finals coming up, retired black basketball stars are complaining about how racist the NBA is. On his ESPN show, Jalen Rose denounced the U.S. Olympic basketball team choice of white veteran Kevin Love, the ...
The Week’s Testiest, Zestiest, and Unrestiest Headlines “BRED FOR SUPERIORITY” MEETS ITS POLAR OPPOSITE Well, this was a crime worthy of Ocean’s 11. Or perhaps more appropriately IQ of 11. Twenty-one-year-old ...
“Scientists” don’t impress me. I’m the progeny of one of the best of ’em, and I know how the sausage is made. A smart enough “scientist” can finesse any study to reflect a predetermined conclusion. Scientists ...
The Week's Most Dumb, Glum, and Ho-Hum Headlines OLYMPIAN CONTROVERSIES The Sochi Winter Olympics are underway, and in a world where nothing is apolitical anymore, luges and ice skates are being shoved aside to make way ...
Leftists love to paint Tucker Carlson as a racist, a Klansman who grows strange fruit in his backyard. If so, he’s the first Klansman in history who hates discussing race. There are many examples; here’s one of my ...
On New Year's Day 1964, a louche, longhaired Leeds lad presented the first edition of the BBC's Top of the Pops from inside a converted Manchester church. Featured acts included The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Dusty ...
Oh, to be in England! The weather is bad, the cities are crowded with bearded Pakistanis, and the law shields foreign criminals from being deported under the dubious right to family life. In other words, all a foreign ...
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris recently tweeted: "Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and we'd tell stories and light the ...
Nations throughout the West have come to view loneliness as an epidemic, for it is increasingly a source of anxiety and unhappiness, and is widely believed to exacerbate health problems. Since there’s not a problem a ...
The Week's Most Addictive, Predictive, and Vindictive Headlines NYPD TURNS ITS BACK ON THE MAYOR The New York Police Department and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio appear to be at war. De Blasio"who was born Warren ...
“Get big money out of politics.” So screams Bernie Sanders’ campaign website. Elizabeth Warren has her own iteration of the phrase, as have many politicians, even some Republicans. But as worrisome as “Big Money” ...
The Week’s Most Feckless, Reckless, and Neckless Headlines THE FALSE EPIDEMIC OF RACIST POLICE SHOOTINGS Despite all the illiterate and innumerate yapping and yelping and yipping that has clogged public discourse ...
The American political class has failed the country, and should be fired. That is the clearest message from the summer surge of Bernie Sanders and the remarkable rise of Donald Trump. Sanders’ candidacy can trace it ...
(The article in its original Spanish immediately follows.) Is it political correctness, or the revenge of a jealous Scientology intending to transform Placido Domingo into a castrato? What an aberration! “In five ...
There is, apparently, a saying in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the effect that anyone who says that he understands the Lebanon does not understand the Lebanon. I am not sure that this saying does not apply to ...
Just before New Year's Eve 2017, President Trump told The New York Times' Michael Schmidt: "Another reason that I'm going to win another four years is because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I'm not ...
“The British political class has offered to the world an astounding spectacle of mendacious, intellectually limited hustlers.” This is a direct quote from last week’s New York Times, a newspaper that is known for ...
Saudi Arabia will not have Uncle Sam to kick around much longer. This is the best news I"ve heard since both the Governor of New York State and a Congressman from the depraved City of New York had to resign because of ...
