“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality,” wrote the great Lord Macaulay back in 1830. Last week we had to endure another buttock-clenching spasm of shrill ...
Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of the House of Windsor was never supposed to have been Queen of Great Britain. Her uncle David, who had taken the name Edward for his reign, was very popular and would, no doubt and in due course, ...
Evidence is mounting that Rupert Murdoch's British media empire conspired illegally with private investigators to tap telephones and hack into computers. A recent murder trial disclosed that Murdoch's editors paid $150,000 ...
Though President Obama has run rings about the Republican Party in the debt-ceiling debate, that party can yet emerge victorious, if it will stick to its guns. Clearly, the Republican strategy was not thought through, when ...
Dear Delphi, The other night I was out to dinner with one of my best friends and her husband starts awkwardly rambling about how he is attracted to pregnant women. Both his wife and I are pregnant, and I thought to myself: ...
Recently, Gov. Ron DeSantis sat down with me for a one-hour interview. I started by praising him for keeping Florida largely open during Covid. "I just had to make the decision as a leader," says DeSantis. "Are you gonna ...
Dear Delphi, My husband wants to do one of those couple-switching parties, and I am considering it. I did some research and honestly it seems like it may be a little fun. We have been married for 25 years and the thing is, ...
As he and his daughters bicycle around the summer playground of the Northeastern elite, Martha’s Vineyard, President Obama is steadily bleeding away both the support of the nation and that of his most loyal ...
What's the long-term future of spectator sports? With the conclusion of the Winter Olympics, some new trends have come into focus. The Olympics, for instance, have established a niche as the Exception to the Rules of ...
Conservatism is sometimes criticized as unprincipled, relativistic, or contradictory. This criticism stems from the very nature of conservatism; it is a philosophy rooted primarily in attitudes about change, so its ...
You'd think the one thing Republicans would have learned from the 2016 Trump campaign is that voters wanted something completely different from what the GOP had been offering. For decades, Republicans had run on tax cuts, ...
In a recent column for the Charleston City Paper, I explained how my moniker, the "Southern Avenger," came from my advocating for states" rights and even secession in my early 20s, a brand of politics I still ...
The English are in love with murder. From The Woman in White and The Hound of the Baskervilles to Lord Peter Wimsey and Hercule Poirot, the mid-market English have long reveled in tales that are simultaneously sanguinary ...
One more Super Tuesday piece. George Gascon, the Soros-backed mass-murdering district attorney, was up against a slew of candidates looking to take him down. Gascon had to get over 50 percent of the vote to avoid a runoff ...
Are all modern-day popular poems really secretly written by Oprah Winfrey? It may well be so. Amanda Gorman, the unbearable young black American “poet” catapulted to undeserved stardom after she performed her shitty ...
The Week’s Most Bitter, Glitter, and Eid al-Fitr Headlines WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMADAN... Canadians are like sloths. It’s hard to hate sloths. They’re cute, funny, and no threat to man. Also, ...
Fast-thinking cops may have saved thousands of lives last weekend, so what better time to discuss the possibility they may be overpaid than now? Okay, maybe it's the worst time possible. The Strokes pulled "NYC Cops ...
If you needed incontrovertible proof that homegrown retardation is far more pressing a problem than homegrown terrorism in modern-day America"six-year-old Falcon Heene's flight of fancy provided it. The contagion that ...
Over the past few days the Greatest Show on Earth has rolled into town. This carnival is complete with its very own troop of freaks, and its ringmaster is cad-about-town Charlie Sheen. Lest one be too hard on young Mr. ...
The Masters tournament on the second weekend of April is the Rite of Spring for golfers in northern America. In places like Chicago, grass is finally turning green after the bleak winter, but the weather is usually still ...
As I write these words and watch them grow into sentences, I am living the final hours of my fifties. By the time you read this, I"ll be sixty years old. Or, as French and other Romance languages put it, I shall have ...
March 28 saw a springtime ritual that rivals or even surpasses Easter in many Americans" hearts: The baseball season opened. Despite the many differences"real and imaginary"between LA and the rest of the ...
When a nation fights for its life, ideology goes by the board. Gen. Washington danced a jig when he heard King Louis XVI had become a fighting ally in our Revolutionary War against the Mother of Parliaments. In our Civil ...
Executing a malefactor by stoning has received bad press due to a deplorable enthusiasm among certain modern Muslims for pelting adulterous women with rocks. But stoning seems no more cruel or unusual than many other ...
