GSTAAD—Now is the time of sultry August days and nights, with the gift of privacy an added bonus. In summer the village contains the die-hards, the locals, and a few tourists. Bucolic freedom, fresh air, and sunshine were ...
The Week’s Most Rancorous, Cankerous, and Cantankerous Headlines THE EMPEROR JONESTOWN If Corn Pop was a bad dude, wait till you meet Soda Pop. Get ready for carbonated bruthas. Black social media “influencer” ...
Last week, the Belgian magazine Knack published an article with the explosive title “Hitler was related to Somalis, Berbers and Jews.” The news involved a study conducted by journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and ...
The Week’s Most Romping, Stomping, and Turkey-Chomping Headlines UNKINDERTRANSPORT Not since the Holocaust or the Seinfeld finale have Jews had such a bad week. First, there was Dave Chappelle, who surprised everybody ...
NEW YORK—I don’t like it when newspapers or TV networks go whining to the courts. And it’s for a very selfish reason. The media in this country has the best deal on the planet: Once we print something, or ...
The Week’s Most Fleeting, Cheating, and Trick-or-Treating Headlines GAY BASH GAY BASHED Blacks and gays come across as two Southern gentlemen slapping each other in the face with dueling gloves for all eternity. Even ...
Being blackmailed by my Mexican gardener should’ve made me angry. To my surprise, it kinda didn’t. This week: a good old-fashioned L.A. noir involving plots, plans, and plants. Call it Shrubble Indemnity. Like most ...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince earned a record $394 million worldwide in its opening week, an extraordinary amount for a film based on the sixth (and penultimate) installment in J.K. Rowling's series of fantasy ...
Is changing one’s mind a sign of strength or of weakness? It depends on the circumstances. There are people who are at the mercy of the last person who spoke or who can be turned like a pancake by the feeblest sophist ...
“[I]f thou live, remember’d not to be, Die single, and thine image dies with thee.” —Shakespeare On Wednesday, the liberal writer Caitlin Flanagan tweeted something about the previous night’s Democratic debate ...
If you have listened to President Obama and Vice President Biden talk about guns in the past month, you have heard them express a decided commitment to use the powers of the federal government to maintain safety in the ...
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has just given us notice he will be terminating the Visiting Forces Agreement that governs U.S. military personnel in the islands. His notification starts the clock running on a ...
I don’t know who was the dumber of the two: the Greek banker who was in a hurry to spend 100 million big ones for a London pad or the American woman who accidentally walked off a cliff in Alaska while texting. Both ...
“Iran must be free. The dictatorship must be destroyed. Containment is appeasement and appeasement is surrender.” Thus does our Churchill, Newt Gingrich, dismiss, in dealing with Iran, the policy of containment ...
Tiberius, the Roman emperor of darkest fame, retired to the island of Capri. In the month of the heat wave, when the Dog constellation is at its zenith and Sirius shines brightly, the emperor ordered a conclave of poets, ...
Just about this time of year, 42 years ago, Dunhill’s of London, the famed tobacconist, had a bold idea. The president of Dunhill’s, Richard Dunhill, flew 32 backgammon players to New York and had them board the QE2 for ...
Back in the days when skin tone was not a criterion for worthy art, I used to attend the opera quite regularly, especially when Mozart, Verdi, or Puccini works were on offer. I mention skin tone because a black American ...
Fresh from his triumphal "Get Brexit Done!" campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson anticipates a swift secession from the European Union. But if Britain secedes from the EU, warns Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon, ...
Last week the television channel Animal Planet, which touts itself a primarily educational outlet, ran a program entitled Mermaids: The New Evidence. It featured several supposed experts, allegations of government ...
This morning (Nov. 1) The Times (London, not New York) had a gloomy leading article. Reflecting on what it described as the "dismal choice" facing the American electorate, it declared that "it would be consoling ...
Though not conservatives, libertarians nonetheless rely on selective portrayals of the past to support their fantasies about drug legalization. They are particularly fond of painting a scary picture of the drug war ...
Sixties rock deity Jim "The Lizard King" Morrison's bloated corpse was found in a Parisian bathtub in 1971, but apparently his soul had been writhing in restless torment until last Thursday, when lame-duck Florida ...
What happens when democracy fails to deliver? What happens when people give up on democracy? What happens when a majority or militant minority decide that the constitutional rights of free speech, free elections, peaceful ...
After reading an especially radical platform agreed upon by the British Labor Party, one Tory wag described it as "the longest suicide note in history." The phrase comes to mind on reading of the resolution calling for ...
