Your opinion of the hit movie Wicked: Part 1, a 160-minute extrapolation of the 90-minute opening act of the Broadway musical Wicked, depends upon your answer to the question: When it comes to Wicked, can there be too much ...
GSTAAD—It’s early in the silvery morning light as I look out my window up here in the heights. A batallion of wispy white clouds hides behind the surrounding mountains—a reminder that a perfect dawn makes for a ...
In February, fresh from the great victory at Oxford, I went to a dinner party in London. At one point my historian friend asked: "Don"t you miss Europe?" My response was a halting "Ye-e-e-e-s-s-s, ...
The Week’s Most Bummer, Mummer, and Farewell to Summer Headlines SAGGY ASSES The actors’ strike marches on! Well, limps. The war between streamers and studios on one side and actors on the other has entered a new ...
When the draft Supreme Court opinion overruling "Roe v. Wade" leaked on Monday, my first thought was: WHY COULDN'T THEY WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR? ("Roe" is in quotes because Planned Parenthood v. Casey already overruled Roe, ...
Dear Delphi, I am a 58-year-old man and I am considering getting hair plugs. What do you think? "Hair Loss in Hartford Dear Hair Loss in Hartford, I don"t think men need hair plugs; they need to accept their ...
August is called the silly season by English hacks, as the Brits like to call journalists. Most people are on vacation; the days are lazy, sunny, and long; and “stop the presses” stories are rare and far between. Silly ...
(The article in its original Spanish immediately follows.) Madrid recovers, copa a copa, after weeks of the Climate Summit. I’ve never seen her so thirsty! The catastrophic mood of the announced earthly apocalypse is ...
We live in an age of serial expertise. First we were experts in climate change, whether or not we believed it was taking place, and consequently in energy policy. Then, with Covid, we became expert epidemiologists, though ...
I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it talks; I wish I liked the way it walks... —Sir Walter Raleigh (1861–1922) During the Second World War, there was a poster in ...
The media are trying to pick the GOP nominee for us just like they did with John McCain. (Remember how great that worked out?) Once again, their pick is the whiny warmonger -- this time, Nikki Haley. No wall and guaranteed ...
Hollywood made a silent film in the 21st century. Big whoop. Now they’re acting like they pioneered something “groundbreaking.” Originality is clearly not Hollywood’s forte. Perhaps their sanity is also in question. ...
NEW YORK—A couple more weeks in the Bagel and then on to dear old London. I’ve had a very good time partying with young friends here, but the place reeks, literally as well as metaphorically. Violence is creeping up, ...
“It was a dark and stormy night, but we were young and thought we could do anything. There was no looking back. None of that David Copperfield kind of nonsense. We were already men. We had our finger on what was going on ...
A Public Service Announcement " Ebola tourism? " Cluelessness and chaos " Dependency and entitlement " What, me, worry? " The romance of American blackness " Being mean to MENA " Kill a cop, win ...
The Claudine Gay affair reminds me that we need a reckoning on how the "intersectionality" project is going. The idea was that after centuries of being kept down by racism and sexism -- although that didn't seem to hurt ...
Most people can imagine circumstances in which they would rather die than continue to live. For many in certain jurisdictions it must be a comfort to know that, thanks to the legalization of assisted suicide, they can end ...
RADAR LOVE Dear Delphi, My boyfriend keeps saying he needs space, and as a consequence we fight a lot. I have become so worried that he is trying to—or is going to—break up with me that I keep asking him about what he ...
Nothing could better illustrate or be emblematic of the earnest suicidal frivolity of the West than the decision of the first female chief executive of the British insurance and pension company Aviva, which has assets of ...
Newspapers have been reporting on the demographic challenges in Asian nations like China, Japan and South Korea. Some expect China's population, for example, to be cut in half by 2100. If current trends continue, some of ...
OMAHA BEACH, NORMANDY—I am standing in a German cement bunker, having walked through a large gaping hole caused by an incoming shell that must have instantly killed the handful of defenders. The bunker is on the beach, ...
I was once asked to imagine what the world would look like today had North American settlers snubbed the African slave traders in the 18th and 19th centuries. We can let our imaginations run wild with speculation, but one ...
The first thing many people think when they see the carnage going on in Mexico is, "What have we done?" Then they exhale and add, "If Mexicans are killing each other to supply us with pot, meth, coke, and ...
This week sees the first anniversary of HM Queen Elizabeth II’s death on 8 September 2022 and provides an excellent opportunity to stop and reflect upon the many heartfelt tributes that poured in from around the globe as ...
