Cultural Caviar
10 Picks for the Week Sonar International Music Conference and Multimedia Art, Barcelona, Spain, June 17 - 19 It is that time of year again… This is three nights and days of cutting edge electronic music mayhem. DJ ...
10 Picks for the Week Sonar International Music Conference and Multimedia Art, Barcelona, Spain, June 17 - 19 It is that time of year again… This is three nights and days of cutting edge electronic music mayhem. DJ ...
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who is wired into the cabinet of “Bibi” Netanyahu, warns that if Iran’s nuclear program is not aborted by December, Israel will strike to obliterate it. Defense ...
No man can create an animal, but history shows men terribly capable of making animals of themselves. To be fair to the lower orders of creation, however, they don't deserve to be grouped together with self-debased humans. ...
"Democracy," says Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." There's probably no better summation of the 2008 election. After an interminable ...
NEW YORK—“Oligarchs brace for a downturn,” screams a New York business headline, a fact that sends me rushing to buy hankies, now selling at a premium at every corner store. Bloomberg News calculates that the ...
The Supreme Court has provided another nail in the coffin of executive war powers in its recent opinion on the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Earlier decisions by the court in Hamdan and Rasul ignored statutory ...
A recent syndicated column by Thomas Sowell "Republicans in the Wilderness" includes useful advice but also misleading conclusions. According to Sowell, while "Republican moderates" Bob Dole and John McCain ...
Someday I’d like to meet Monsieur Tourette, and ask him about his syndrome. Because over the years I’ve had close friends, colleagues, mentors, siblings and girlfriends suggest—sometimes quite ...
Just after the Berlin wall came down, I flew to Berlin with my German-Austrian wife and traveled around the city and its eastern parts. On visiting the Olympic stadium I told the taxi driver that my uncle, a hurdler, was ...
The late, great President Nixon once told me that the West was acting unfairly towards the Russian Bear. Instead of helping a prostrate Russia, we cheered while the Russkies suffered defeat and humiliation. Now the chickens ...
Sometimes it really is cruel to be kind, as the old adage almost goes. If so, then our current Western #BeKind culture must be amongst the very cruelest societies ever to have existed. Kindness is now even henceforth to be ...
Robert Mugabe hates black people more than the most technical architects of apartheid ever could and he's never been shy about demonstrating it. From 1982-1985, he waged a full scale slaughter against the minority Ndebele ...
This story (the title of which alludes to Jessica Mitford’s October 1974 Atlantic Monthly report, "My Short And Happy Life as a Distinguished Professor") really begins with two processes that became obvious to ...
Conservatives historically have taken pride in their hard-headedness. It is supposed to be a manly persuasion with a long view, rooted in concepts like deferred gratification, the proper appreciation of applied ...
Reading a newspaper headline recently—on my telephone, of course—I suddenly became aware of a terrible injustice that was about to be done to me. The headline proclaimed that 70 was the new 60, and that scientific ...
Justin's defense of Samantha Power demands a reply, and I"d like to demur from lamenting the departure of the Harvard prof and anti-genocide crusader fom the political scene. Yes, she was a critic of Israel, but then ...
Europe's nature seems to be destined to change deeply within a few decades. First of all, it is highly likely that nationalist parties will grow, becoming increasingly relevant in the single Europe's political systems. ...
In the 1970s, as Pope Paul VI faced wholesale rebellion by progressives in the Church, he wielded his papal authority instead to persecute the small numbers of Catholics who resisted the most expansive readings of Vatican ...
Finally, someone has worked up the courage to say it. We’ve all been thinking it. It’s the soothing mantra we repeat while sitting in drive-time traffic, a petition we send up to the God of Battles with each ...
“Taliban Are Winning: U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Warns of Rising Casualties.” Thus ran the startling headline on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal. The lead paragraph ran thus: The Taliban have ...
Every so often, an action hit comes out of nowhere"Mad Max, Terminator, Ricci v. DeStefano. Inevitably, we start hoping that the big budget follow-up can keep the same excitement going, just with huger explosions. A few ...
During the height of the globalization age in the late 1990s, many leading Zeitgeist watchers were celebrating the rise of the "New Cosmopolitans," a term coined by business reporter G. Pascal Zachary. A new ...
17 May saw the 60th anniversary of the death in 1964 of one of my all-time favorite weirdos, the Hungarian-born Jewish ghost-hunter, journalist, and Freudian psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor. Later a resident of both Britain and ...
When it comes to memories you can’t pound out of your head with a mallet, few rival the staying power of that moment when we discover how babies are made. For me, it was really a series of excruciating epiphanies in ...
