Roger Federer

Tennis Is the Best Medicine

Asked how he was feeling as he was about to give a speech to a ladies’ group, Mark Twain looked horror-stricken and said: “How do you expect me to feel? Shakespeare is dead, Goethe is dead, and I have a terrible ...

La Torre de Babel

Alejandrina Cabrera was born and raised in America and graduated in the 1980s from the same Arizona public high school as former UFC heavyweight champion Cain “Brown Pride” Velasquez. On Wednesday a judge in Yuma ...

President Barack Obama

The Incredible Shrinking Messiah

From Bono the rock star to Bozo the clown, Obama is polling lower than the teats on a pregnant weenie dog. Obama has been relegated to speaking at high schools and fire stations. His recent bus tour arrived at the first ...

Alex Jones

Alex Jones in Blackface

Poor Alex Jones, banned from Facebook, YouTube, Apple/iTunes, Periscope, Spotify, and (temporarily) Twitter. And dudes like me, who were being deprived of platforms long before social media existed, and who were being ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Boxing, Outfoxing, and Easter-for-the-Orthodoxing Headlines LARDO CALORIESSIAN Celebrity fetishes are nothing new. Rousseau liked getting spanked (hence his “Discourse on the Arse and Sciences”), ...

Kevin Cooper

Quadruple Murderer is NYT’s Profile in Courage

Having run out of international con women to promote or innocent biological weapons researchers to accuse, The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof is banging on about a spectacularly guilty quadruple murderer who -- according ...

President Donald Trump

The Psychological Naïveté of Trump’s Moralistic Critics

From the Never Trump Republicans to Hollywood to academia, moralistic criticism of Donald Trump has been common ever since he became a serious candidate for the presidency. And certainly, there has been plenty to find fault ...

Protect Kids or Confiscate Guns?

In days gone by, a massacre of students like the atrocity at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School would have brought us together. But like so many atrocities before it, this mass murder is tearing us apart. The perpetrator, ...

Twins Across Space and Time

What matters most: nature or nurture, genes or environment, ancestry or upbringing? The conventional wisdom argues for the malleable latter, even though twin and adoption studies typically find more substantial evidence for ...

Yelp Goes Woke on “Racism”

Yelp, a company that offers users a platform to review businesses online, announced last Thursday that it is debuting a new policy that allows customers to report and flag businesses that they believe are racist: At Yelp, ...

Imam Shahid Mehdi

The Muff-Crazed Mufti

Imam Shahid Mehdi"€”interpreter of Islamic law, respected Muslim scholar, and former lingerie salesman"€”is a Denmark-based mufti who managed to outrage both the left-wing Unity List Party and the right-wing Danish ...

Suntory Hibiki

500 Years of Moonshine Might, You Know, Taste Better

PHILADELPHIA—Lately I’ve been performing in the state that went to war over whiskey—the Whiskey Rebellion lasted longer than World War II and had several Barley Malt Martyrs—and frankly I don’t like the way ...

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The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Convoluted, Persecuted, and Prostituted Headlines OUT, DAMN"€™D RACIST SPOT! Amid the national moral panic that’s been engineered and whipped up subsequent to the recent Charleston church shooting, ...

Southbound Salvation

New York—It was the best of times—downtown—and the worst of times—uptown. Let’s start with the horror near the park: Cranial atrophy, unrelenting grossness, overarched and overgrown eyebrows, posterior-baring ...

We’ll Tell You Who’s Privileged

While waiting for a car at Union Station last Thursday night, I was treated to a giant TV screen playing Christine Blasey Ford's testimony from last year against then-nominee Brett Kavanaugh -- now Supreme Court Justice ...

The Tyranny of Mark Levin’s “€œLiberty”€

Under discussion: Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Threshold Editions (2009), 256 pages The first paragraph of the first chapter of Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, the ...

The Right’s Sun Tzuicide

Throughout my life, I’ve often been accused of lacking empathy. It’s a critique that goes back to high school, when I was a compassionless bully. And I’ll admit, I do have an empathy problem, but only when it comes to ...

Making a Hell of Heaven

Perhaps it is because of my age that I am coming to resemble Roderick Usher and his abomination of noise (not that I ever liked it much), despite the fact that, according to a recent hearing test, I have lost 15 percent of ...

The Joyous Resurgence of Global Sexism

If you’re a woman whose entire identity is predicated upon feeling sorry for yourself, I have some good news—a recent UN report concludes that, despite all the “advances” of the past century, the world has grown ...

Higher Learning at an All-Time Low

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is nipping at Hillary Clinton's two-inch heels in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination based largely upon his higher-education plan. With student debt now outpacing credit-card ...

The Power of the Pen

The troubles with the modern world are too numerous to list, technology being among the worst offenders. Just imagine how much better off we’d be if there were no plastic bags to pollute our oceans and rivers, no soulless ...

Anne Hathaway

Last Refuge of the Desperate

GSTAAD—Friends who were among the last to leave Chalet Palataki on New Year’s tell me there were stragglers waiting to be admitted, and this was as the sun was coming up on January 1. My chalet has become the last ...


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