Irredeemably dissolute actor Charlie Sheen revealed last week that he tested positive for HIV four years ago. The Mirror alleges that since then, Sheen has “slept with more than 700 [people] including call girls, ...
Obama is an incredibly cool guy who consistently tears the teleprompter a new one but the liberal ethos is based on theories and theories are expensive. Sure, it's possible America is a racist hellhole and blacks are a few ...
A recent article in The Huffington Post, that eternal blast of lavender-scented, dreamcatcher-filtered wind from the left, recently suggested that America needs a Voter IQ Law. Apparently a flaccid stab at Swiftian satire, ...
"God damn Christopher Columbus" were the last words my wife's grandmother spoke before dying at age 88 twenty years ago last week. Nobody has ever conclusively deciphered the meaning of that memorable sentence. Her ...
The disappearing middle. A study out of Oxford University, written up on Slate.com, says that 47 percent of US jobs are “at risk” of being automated in the next 20 years. The Slate guy says we have to Fix The ...
Someone got stabbed at my DePaul talk on Tuesday night and that's not even the craziest part. The talk had already been canceled, but the protesters showed up anyway and demanded that everyone stand together to fight hate. ...
On a sunny September afternoon when I was eight, I was standing on the concrete steps outside our suburban Philly house when I heard my mother unleash a piercingly loud animal wail from inside. She"d received a phone ...
In the movie business, conventional wisdom has it that to succeed at the box office a film must include profanity, obscenity, blood, gore, blasphemy, and, of course, lots of sex. There’s only one little problem with ...
“Fascism” is the preferred political swear word of the left. Fascism was largely a European phenomenon, and an anticapitalist one to boot. In America we got FDR’s alphabet soup instead of jackbooted thugs ...
The Week’s Sleaziest, Cheesiest, and Queasiest Headlines BERNIE SANDERS FINALLY BLOWS A GASKET It has long been an established fact that not only is Bernie Sanders the angriest man in politics—he may be the angriest ...
After leftist radicals shot and killed a pair of Golden Dawn members in Athens on Friday, news outlets referred to the killers as members of an "extremist" group. This was odd, as I"ve become conditioned to see ...
The great mystery of my lifetime has been the 1960s. It's worth returning to this vast subject periodically as new perspectives unveil themselves. The closest thing to a successful prophecy of that era was made by ...
A couple of heavyweight conservative thinkers, Charles Murray and Christopher Caldwell, have important new books out this month: Murray’s upcoming Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class and Caldwell’s ...
One of the best things about living in the country is how little you care about "city" issues such as the Peruvian Kraut who killed a gangster's son or a bunch of savages rioting halfway across the world. Here in ...
After combing through the data for hours, academics have discovered the cause of the mass shooting in Charleston. Turns out it was comedian Amy Schumer’s fault. You see, she once joked, "I used to date Hispanic ...
The Week's Most Tickly, Sickly, and Prickly Headlines RACHEL MADDOW DROPS A BOMBSHELL ON HERSELF MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is easily the manliest broadcaster currently on television, with her free testosterone levels at any ...
Another day, another dead British rock star who famously flirted with fascist symbolism. Two weeks ago it was Lemmy, and now comes word that David Bowie has finally floated away into outer space for the last time. Ground ...
It has been nearly a hundred years since Sir James Frazer completed his tremendous work of anthropology The Golden Bough. The book scandalized many Christians, suggesting as it did that the theme of a divine person ...
Locals often refer to San Francisco as “The Golden City,” but I’m assuming that was back when the homeless were merely urinating all over the streets. These days, the city is in deep shit—much of it human. In ...
Right at the moment when I was ready to flush all hope down the toilet, along comes Donald Trump with a comment about shitholes. At a White House meeting on Thursday with a handful of congressional reps who are trying to ...
Shortly before the stroke of midnight on August 24 in Savannah, GA, a young interracial couple was strolling downtown through a former slave market called Ellis Square. Twenty-three-year-old Andrew Quade, the white ...
Like many, Donald Trump's stunning capture of the United States presidency caught me by surprise. I had written off his unorthodox campaign as untenable in the age of safe spaces and political correctness. How wrong I was. ...
Today many Americans will be celebrating Columbus Day. Many others will instead be commemorating something they call Indigenous Peoples Day. Which camp you fall in largely hinges on whether or not you think Christopher ...
Croatia is responsible for the launch and execution of the largest military operation witnessed on European soil since World War II. But without Serbia’s late Slobodan Milosevic committing aggression against her and ...
