The Week That Perished
The Week's Weepiest, Sleepiest, and Creepiest Headlines BARACK OBAMA RUBS AMERICA's NOSE IN HIS BLACKNESS As the final months wane in the presidency of our transformational and sparkling leader Barack Dindu Obama, our ...
The Week's Weepiest, Sleepiest, and Creepiest Headlines BARACK OBAMA RUBS AMERICA's NOSE IN HIS BLACKNESS As the final months wane in the presidency of our transformational and sparkling leader Barack Dindu Obama, our ...
If I"d known, as a teenager, that Lake Superior State University existed, maybe I"d have bothered getting a degree after all. For one thing, these guys usher in spring by burning a giant snowman. (It was "a ...
T.S. Eliot's observation that "human kind cannot bear very much reality" is surely up among the half-dozen wisest things ever said about our common nature. There is, of course, individual variation in how much ...
When a movie enjoys a $153-million opening weekend, you might think the writer-director would be the toast of the town. Yet even while Gary Ross’s 2012 hit The Hunger Games, a dystopian tale of provincial revolt ...
The city of San Francisco has become a notoriously unaffordable place to live. Two-bedroom apartments in San Francisco currently average $4,126 per month, up from $1,840 in 2009. To buy a three-bedroom home would run you ...
If you ever need to be reminded how superior the West is, just hop in a taxi. The drivers come from anywhere-but-here and pretty much all of them are ambassadors of suck. The days of the charming, loudmouth cabbie with the ...
Google is a brilliant search engine where they accrue seemingly infinite amounts of data and organize it into patterns. When you type in “cars” it takes you to the most popular car-buying site as well as all the ...
The recent riot at Middlebury College by science denialists who put a woman professor in the hospital while attempting to do violence to Charles Murray has elicited passionate defenses by advocates of intellectual ...
“I want to be clear—I’m not going nuts,” Joe Biden assured a crowd in New Hampshire last Friday. It was merely the latest in a lifetime of lies this serial fabulist has told. ALL of the available evidence proves ...
It’s coming up to new laptop time, so I headed down to Best Buy. All they had were Windows 8 machines. The assistant gave me a tour of this new operating system. It was different from Windows 7, which I’ve been ...
On this 100th anniversary of the Great War, the rise of anti-Russian jingoism in the American media is apparent to both the right and the left. In The Nation, NYU Russian Studies professor Stephen F. Cohen lamented about ...
The factually challenged (and largely plagiarized) 1977 TV miniseries Roots had an undeniable influence on how millions of Americans, black and white, view the era of slavery. A standout moment in this well-made piece of ...
Look, it's no fun being the designated race reporter at Taki's Mag. When I joined the contributor list I ticked “opera critic” as my preferred slot on the masthead. Then I got into one of those dumb ...
The Pink Mafia’s tirelessly active activists recently upbraided former Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon for insisting that her switch from a heterosexual lifestyle to a lesbian one was a matter of personal ...
A simple model that helps make much about the modern world easier to comprehend is that of a high-low tag team against the middle. As part of a time-tested strategy of divide and rule, the rich tend to push for policies and ...
This week the mainstream media finally grudgingly admitted the possibility of what I’ve been hollering for three months: that their declaration of a “racial reckoning” has unleashed destruction and mayhem across ...
Country singer George Jones, who to my ears had the greatest voice ever recorded, died on Friday. A genius of phrasing and nuance, Jones had a stratospheric voice that captured human heartbreak with bottomless poignancy. I ...
British think tank Demos recently released a study titled MISOGYNY ON TWITTER. A five-person panel of researchers"tilted in favor of males by an unacceptably patriarchal 3-2 margin""collected all tweets in the ...
There is no doubt in my mind that we wish our destruction. What else could it be? An Elders of Zion plot? Hardly. They would be among the first to go down, although unlike us, they would put up a fight. The only thing I ...
The smoke has cleared in Baltimore for now, and one of my favorite American cities is just a little bit less than it used to be. I bear a lingering affection for Baltimore because it mirrors in many ways the Philadelphia ...
Egged on by Joe Biden and Wisconsin governor Tony Evers, a mob of Black Lives Matter rioters has been burning down Kenosha, Wis. They are angry over the latest police shooting of yet another black criminal who assumed he is ...
If it was only white women who had voted in the past presidential election, Donald Trump still would have won. The only difference would be that he would also have won the popular vote, and by a 12-point margin. Trump ...
Pondering the smoking ruins of American racial policy, I wonder whether it isn"t time to say publicly what many, if not most, of both races know: It isn"t working. It isn"t going to work. If it were, it would ...
The left's grip on reality has never exactly been vise-like. But it seems to me that leftists are losing it"more than usual"over Trump. And I"m no Trump fan, to be sure. Last week I was amused to see myself ...
