Epstein’s Epic
Ever since his 1966 book Inquest documented that the Warren Commission’s own staffers believed that their enquiry into who shot JFK had been too rushed to be reliable, Edward Jay Epstein has been that highly useful ...
Ever since his 1966 book Inquest documented that the Warren Commission’s own staffers believed that their enquiry into who shot JFK had been too rushed to be reliable, Edward Jay Epstein has been that highly useful ...
Michael Moore’s unsolicited tongue baths to the contrary, Canada’s crime rate isn’t lower because we have fewer guns than America, as yet another peer-reviewed study proved this month. One theory holds, as Colby Cosh ...
The Week's Most Suspicious, Seditious, and Meretricious Headlines NANCY PELOSI's FOOT FETISH Last week in San Francisco, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi got down on her knees"which, for all we know, may be ...
The Week's Most Regrettable, Lamentable, and Unforgettable Headlines HAPPY TAX FREEDOM DAY! As Americans scramble to file their 2013 tax returns by tomorrow's midnight deadline, let us never forget that on average, we work ...
The Week's Most Maddening, Saddening, and Fattening Headlines THOSE DARNED GAYS AND THEIR DAMNED CAKES In what is unquestionably the most urgent and compelling civil-rights issue in world history"namely, that tense and ...
Gstaad—For some strange reason there have been no #MeToo complaints around these parts. Some locals have grumbled about yours truly, and an interview I gave about this village to a Swiss daily, but even though Harvey used ...
We are enjoined to say nothing ill of the dead—the recently dead, that is, guidance being somewhat less clear as to when denigration of the dear departed may with decency begin. On the whole I agree that death should ...
In the first chapter of Shadows of Empire, a novel I wrote twenty years ago, an old shipbuilder and shipping magnate, in conversation with his grandson, my narrator, speaks up in 1906 for Free Trade. "Glasgow," he ...
The U.K. is said to have produced the world’s longest suicide note—its Climate Change Act 2008. There are some sane people left in the U.K., though; the ones at the Global Warming Policy Foundation commissioned eminent ...
There is an English writer who is going around telling all and sundry that I made a pass at his wife. Now, Englishmen are known not to get too excited about such matters, but in this case the man is simply showing off. I ...
Ricky Gervais is a British comedian who strikes us as effeminate, but that might be because all British males strike us as ...
As temperatures drop, the nights grow longer, and America careens toward another round of elections, it's hard to believe it was only two years ago that Barack Obama had cobbled together a coalition of minorities and ...
Ten weeks before the first U.S.-Soviet summit ever held in Moscow, in May 1972, North Vietnam, with Soviet-supplied armor and artillery, crossed the DMZ in an all-out offensive to overrun the South. President Nixon ...
Mixed martial arts is one of the world’s fastest-growing sports, and many say it is already more popular than boxing. Yet MMA's sociological and historical significance seems hardly to have been given a second ...
Lanza is a noble Sicilian name which I believe appears in Il Gattopardo, Lampedusa’s immortal tale of changing times in Sicily during the 1860s. Prince Raimondo Lanza was one of Gianni Agnelli’s best friends until he ...
William Gladstone, the great Victorian Liberal leader, the most successful electoral politician of the age, believed that success in politics depended on right timing. This was why he often withdrew into silence, ...
"The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border," Secretary of State Michael Pompeo ominously warned on Friday. He spelled out what he meant to commentator Larry O'Connor: "The Chinese have now ...
Dear Gato, When Felipe Calderón took office as the president of Mexico in 2006, he pledged to turn up the heat on the War on Drugs. He delivered on his promise. By 2012, over 70,000 people had been murdered in the war ...
A nice package arrived by post just as I was going to ring a friend in London and inquire how old and how good was a title whose bearer uses it more often than a footballer says the F-word. I will not name the bum because I ...
The first copy of Newsweek I ever read was shortly after German reunification when I was able to get my hands on one of its international issues. What I expected was an unbiased account of events as they transpired ...
In 1922 Churchill told the House of Commons that "The whole map of Europe has been changed""by the Great War. "But," he said, "as the deluge subsides and the waters fall short we see the dreary ...
It was 1 a.m. last Tuesday night, and I was drunk and conflicted. The drunk part is par for the course (I doubt I’ve seen a sober 1 a.m. in a decade), but the conflicted part was unfamiliar territory. I’d just returned ...
Three years ago I wrote about a girl I dated in the 1990s who slowly but inexorably fell to paranoid schizophrenia. The hardest part of the end-stage of that relationship was seeing the sudden shifts from lucidity to ...
Two weeks ago I wrote about the folly of viewing “I’m fleeing to a red state” as a panacea rather than a postponement, and last week I dealt with the right’s disdain for details and fondness for “paint with a wide ...
