Negotiating the Curve
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a prodigious intellectual who has managed to build a significant following with his books on investing and “tail risk,” such as The Black Swan and Skin in the Game. Yet he’s never quite gotten ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a prodigious intellectual who has managed to build a significant following with his books on investing and “tail risk,” such as The Black Swan and Skin in the Game. Yet he’s never quite gotten ...
I met Doug Williams in August while developing a pilot for a TV show about myth busting. He's the most vocal critic of polygraph machines in the world and authored the book From Cop to Crusader: My Fight Against the ...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said of William Shakespeare, the 400th anniversary of whose death has just passed, that he was capable of writing tragedies only about individuals, or small groups of individuals, because he lived at ...
In his New York Times column "Checking Charlie Hebdo's Privilege," Ross Douthat took on the reigning orthodoxy about how we should only "punch up" at the more "privileged." Ross rolled his eyes at ...
What's the worst college in America in terms of taking in kids from rich families and turning out young adults who, despite all their privileges, still won"t earn very much? By one way of counting, the biggest loser is ...
There was something pathetically nostalgic at the specter earlier this month of fast-food workers demanding compensation to the tune of $15 an hour for performing jobs that require almost no skills beyond not being in a ...
In my three decades as a media critic, this summer’s huge effort by the press to cover up the endless rioting by George Floyd’s mourners has been its most shameless and shameful episode yet. Until very recently, a ...
Most of us here agree that PC has taken over, but it's worth doing a random sampling to see how true that is. What I learned will surprise you. It might not be as ubiquitous as you think. Political correctness has been ...
If you"d asked me at the peak of public cynicism about giant oil companies"say, 1975"if within a quarter of a century a Democratic administration would allow Exxon and Mobil to merge into ExxonMobil, I"d ...
St. Paul famously wrote to the Galatians: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” But America in the era of George Floyd ...
A couple of years ago on this site I wondered "Why Isn"t Racism Cool?" Why, I asked, has the state ideology of the West not generated its antithesis, as historical trends are supposed to do? The Kultursmog of ...
It is the tragic reality of my being that I"m forced to justify myself every time someone learns what I did in the past and what I"ve been thrust back into doing in the present. When I"m fortunate enough to be ...
So I was watching this old-timey western called Support Your Local Sheriff the other night. There's a scene where the female protagonist storms into the courtroom and demands to be heard. The men in the courtroom act ...
The Week’s Most Snowing, Glowing, and Ho-Ho-Ho-ing Headlines THE TRAGICALLY HIPPO Christmas carols in Africa have their own unique flavor: I want a hippopotamus for Christmas, Only a hippopotamus will do! Mom’s got ...
The Mediterranean isle of Sicily has long been a lily pad for those who seek to hop between Africa and Europe. Over the millennia its ownership has changed hands between conquering Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, ...
There’s actually a sane, quite reasonable explanation for why so much of the media’s embarrassing levels of Trump Trauma and Putin Psychosis stem from Jewish paranoia. In the latest of an endless series of incidents, ...
This week's column is in the noble Derbian tradition of advice to the younger generation. From the aery height of three score and ten I offer you nuggets of wisdom, wrenched with difficulty and some pain from a lifetime's ...
“What is it with you Jews, anyway?” asks Clint Eastwood’s shell-shocked Air Force pilot in the 1982 thriller Firefox. And damned if last week I didn’t find myself asking that exact same question. Now keep in ...
When our first black president was elected, people took to the streets to cheer. It was the first time that many of us felt genuinely proud of our country. Who would have ever guessed that a nation so steeped in prejudice ...
Denunciatory reviews of Nicholas Wade's book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History have typically fallen into two general categories: "¢ Well, nobody believes that race has no biological reality and ...
Well, that's been a depressing few days, hasn"t it? Have you been watching the pictures on TV? Howling mobs of blacks throwing bottles; overturned cars; stores looted and burned; police in riot gear watching passively; ...
Another year, another 365 days of walking, talking human headaches. Sometimes I don’t know why I simply don’t look away from it all—and then, when I can’t come up with an answer, I begin getting annoyed with ...
With the exception of the teeming masses of Philip K. Dick adaptations, science fiction movies (such as the new Interstellar) tend to be based on original screenplays rather than the genre's classic novels. One reason ...
It's official: Atheists now occupy a lower place than Muslims in the "progressive stack," meaning that in the Sacred Church of Equality, Muslims are now considered holier than atheists. If you doubt my assertion, ...
