I have noticed that, in all the acres of commentary (most of it respectful or even laudatory) on the wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris with 25,000 square meters of polypropylene fabric, none has claimed that the ...
Harvey Weinstein’s recent perp walk reminds me of another great thing about Trump winning the election: Hillary Clinton isn’t president. A New York Times article on Weinstein’s court appearance noted how ...
THUN, SWITZERLAND—”Mokuso!” All 200 of us who are already on our knees and sitting on our heels in the Japanese “seiza” position remain dead silent at the command. No loud breathing, no movement ...
Is there a shadowy network of Democrat pedophiles plotting to legalize sex with children? I’ve been hearing that for the past half-dozen years, but to be honest, I don’t see much evidence of any kind of powerful ...
There are certain leftist ideas that, if one is to believe in them, it is necessary to live at a certain removal from reality, that rather pesky thing which never ceases to shatter comforting delusions. We are often told, ...
DALLAS—There’s a theater in the little Greek town of Epidaurus that seats 14,000 people. It has perfect acoustics. It’s where people gather to tell stories, hear stories, and discuss stories, sometimes with music, ...
The leaves are falling nonstop, like names dropped in Hollywood, and it has suddenly turned colder than the look I got from a very pretty girl in a downtown restaurant. I had gone outside for a cigarette while dining with ...
Anthony Horowitz, author of the very successful Alex Rider books (teen novels about a schoolboy spy) and the excellent TV series Foyle's War, has landed himself in trouble. His offense? The intention to have a black boy as ...
We will pause simply to note that six inches is HUGE for ...
LONDON, Ontario—The great thing about living among Canadians for a few days is that they don’t have an app for everything. They still answer their phones. They still toss actual coins into the toll basket. When ...
If you’ve learned anything from the coronavirus pandemic, you should have at least learned that the world is stuffed to the rafters with know-it-alls who don’t know ...
There have been a lot of questions about why Trump fired James Comey, ever since he announced to NBC’s Lester Holt—incomprehensibly—that it was his decision, citing, by my count, at least a half-dozen ...
The recent events in Turkey interested me in part because I am about to pay my annual visit to that country. I always go to the same place, in which, though it is very Westernized, I have noticed over the years that the ...
The Week's Most Fallacious, Vexatious, and Ostentatious Headlines THE NOBLE CAMPAIGN TO FIGHT (SPECIFIC FORMS OF) RACIAL STEREOTYPING Who would have thought that you could take people of widely divergent racial and ...
A British court has just ruled that a couple accused of procuring the murder of a boy age 11 in India, whose life they had insured for a large sum of money, could not be extradited to India to face trial because they might, ...
L’amor che move le stelle The great Italian poet Dante Alighieri believed the universe to be moved by Love. There are those who do not believe this, though. After the fall of Ceausescu we saw sad televised images of ...
GSTAAD—As everyone knows, the balder, shorter, and more repellent the seducer, the more lavish the lunch he produces for the dumb blonde. Lunch is that symptom of decadence and dalliance for which there is no longer room ...
At the G-20 in Hamburg, it is said, President Trump was isolated, without support from the other G-20 members, especially on climate change and trade. Perhaps so. But the crucial question is not whether Trump is alone, but ...
The Week's Most Horrible, Deplorable, and Adorable Headlines CONCENTRATION CAMP ROMANCE NOVEL RAISES EYEBROWS Is there anyone among us who doesn’t enjoy curling up in front of the fireplace to read a right good ...
Beware of anyone who apologizes without also handing you a check for a million ...
I was not on the winning side of the debate, despite giving it the old college try. Thank God for my South African friend Simon Reader, who coached me just before I went on. Mind you, my side felt a bit like Maxime Weygand, ...
The Week's Most Kinetic, Splenetic, and Frenetic Headlines THE QUESTION THAT REFUSES TO DIE: DOES MICHELLE OBAMA LOOK LIKE AN APE? Racists, Republicans, Tea Partiers, libertarians, Fox News watchers, Koch Industries ...
So I was wrong. The 1990s Revival is going ahead after all, leading those of us who lived through that decade to ask: "Wait, things happened in the 1990s?" At the time I"d left the left, but 9/11 was obviously ...
Remember when Halloween used to be fun? Before the left got its unwashed, THC-stained hands on it? Before finger-wagging SJW scolds began their NKVD-style war against costumes that might be seen as offensive to non-straight ...
