Joe Biden

Big Tech Protects Joe Biden

Big Tech wants to protect Joe Biden, so it censored the New York Post’s exposé on the corrupt dealings of his son Hunter. Users of Facebook and Twitter were frustrated by their inability to share the important article, ...

Cheat Sheet

GSTAAD—After six and a half months apart, I had absolutely no trouble recognizing my wife. Out she came to the driveway to greet me as Charlie the horny driver brought a sleepy Greek boy home after a long flight from the ...

Ship of Cowards

It wasn’t Italy’s finest hour. Not even Gabrielle D’Annunzio—poet, patriot, propagandist, and proto-fascist—could spin this into a maritime Titanic-like drama. Once the Costa Concordia hit a rock off the Tuscan ...

Dystopia Means a Very Black Future

Fictional dystopias are all the rage on page and screen today—just so long as they’re presented from a left-wing perspective. Then their fans can point at certain social trends they happen to disapprove of and yell ...

As the Boomers Head for the Barn

When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing. While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent, 342,000 workers had ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Bitter, Aglitter, and Eid al-Fitr Headlines REPARATION OUCH Attention, Walmart clobbers! Blue Ash, a Cincinnati suburb, became black-and-blue ashy after 37-year-old Karen Ivery soul-trained her way into ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Swaying, Braying, and Earth-Daying Headlines BLACK FACE IN BLACKFACE For the professional blackface hunter, that dogged activist who ferrets out and cancels anyone who dares to wear blackface, times are ...

War of the Babies

What was the most important battle of the late 20th century? You could argue it was the one that took place on the southern border of Morocco on November 6, 1975. Of course, we're not talking about another Stalingrad here. ...

The Revenge of the Weak

Listen to him squeal like a stuck pig, dear reader, his words the language of triumphant Western decay. His name is Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and, being president of the American Sociological Association, he’s no ordinary ...

Barack Obama

Will Heads Roll for the Stuxnet Leak?

Within days of SEAL Team Six’s killing of Osama on that midnight mission in Pakistan, Defense Secretary Bob Gates, reading all about the raid in the press, went to the White House to tell President Obama’s ...

Columbia University, New York

The New Old Continent

Imagine a European country today in which a newspaper of its most populous city launches a totally mendacious project reinterpreting its past. The practice was perfected during the old communist system that ruled Romania, ...

How Not to Be President

Now that we know Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is running for president (along with several others whose names I can't remember), I have a helpful primer on what NOT to do as president. I base this advice on the conduct of the ...

Elle and Blair Fowler

Ideology: A Waste of Time

My executive editor at a Florida magazine, Hardy Burt, informed me at lunch one day, “God is a girl!” This was after his first vodka martini. I can’t imagine what we were discussing. He may have been ...

Nobel Prize, Stockholm

New Year’s Purge and Cleanse

Time for my annual Jan. 1 housecleaning of unused ephemera I wish I could’ve included in the previous year’s columns. The Lonely Norwegian In February, socialist Norwegian parliamentarian Petter Eide (dumb name, ...

Gay Old Dad, Secret-Agent Son, and Pesky Pack-Rat Partner

Dear Delphi, I am 25 and my 56-year-old dad, who is still married to my mother, just came out and announced his intention to leave us for his lover"€”his male lover. He was very apologetic and sad about the whole thing ...

The Hidden Inspiration of Vampire Weekend

New York City is for the rich and the young. If you"€™re not either of those things, get out. Those who stay are doomed to sitting in a tiny apartment all alone and bitching about rich kids in love. This is what the ...

Exalted Failures Part II: Slow-Motion ‘Downfall’

This will conclude my apparent “Hitler Trilogy” (I say “apparent” because I didn’t plan it; it just kinda happened that way). I’ll lead off with a few observations from my youth. I realize that Ron Unz tells ...

Dictatorship and Confinement

Envy and denunciation abound with fanatic ardor against those who dare to circumvent the confinement in Spain. The last case has been carried out by the former president, Mariano Rajoy, walking alone and at a very good pace ...

Ines and The Jets

If any recent event ever could be said to exemplify the sad desperation of contemporary feminism, it’s the manufactured controversy involving the supposed travails of gorgeous blond reporterette Ines Sainz, and the ...

Kanye West's sneakers

Prop Culture

NEW YORK—I hope this is my last week in the Bagel. I plan to fly first to Switzerland and then on to London. There’s the annual Pugs’ Club lunch I cannot afford to miss, but now that Boris is married I don’t suppose ...

New York City

Noo Yawk, Noo Yawk

New York  - “Gimme a BLT on rye and hold da mayo” is a great Noo Yawk sound. So is boid for bird, and toerty toird for 33rd street. True working class accents no longer exist in the Bagel, and one is far more likely ...

The Obama Bible, AKA The New Book of Jobs

Apparently the $447B check cleared and Obama was allowed to deliver Part Two of the “American Jobs Speech” he gave last Thursday. To set the proper ambiance, Obama strategically placed lots of “working Americans” ...

Mr. Assange’s Digital McCarthyism

Upon superficial inspection, still-living superstar hacker Julian Assange and long-dead commie-stalker Joseph McCarthy seem like natural-born enemies and political polar opposites. Technically, the Arctic and Antarctica are ...

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Pro-Crime Party Nominates a Justice

Presidents are entitled to nominate Supreme Court justices who represent their party and its values. Using that as our guide, President Joe Biden picked the Democrats' perfect Supreme Court justice: Ketanji Brown ...


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