The Unbearable Dullness of Judd Apatow
This Is 40 is one of those rare films that is so unforgivingly awful, it’s worth watching. What was apparently intended to be a quirky peek at Judd Apatow’s real-life family is so universally hated, it’s ...
This Is 40 is one of those rare films that is so unforgivingly awful, it’s worth watching. What was apparently intended to be a quirky peek at Judd Apatow’s real-life family is so universally hated, it’s ...
A very common sexist stereotype is that women are absurdly hypersensitive. Funny enough, these days that stereotype persists mostly due to the absurdly hypersensitive real-life behavior of feminists. Supposedly it's ...
Our crumbling and fidgety nation is still reeling from last week's news that a Liberian national apparently lied his way into the USA for Ebola treatment. While many of us fear that our wise and beneficent overlords in the ...
From where I"m sitting"and if you want to get technical, it's on a cushioned chair in front of a computer on a farm in Georgia"the only way that Russia could possibly have "undermined American democracy" ...
With the Washington establishment agreeing that what America needs right now is to double down on guest workers and amnesty for illegal aliens, it’s worthwhile to notice how a serious country such as Israel deals with ...
Two of the better movies of 2015 are weirdly similar musical biopics about bands from Los Angeles" south suburbs. Last June's Love & Mercy profiled Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, who came from Hawthorne, Calif., ...
During these holidays we should take a second and send our best wishes to the neocons, poor dears, who are having a bad time during this holy season because their plans have gone awry"for at least the next six ...
What if the world isn’t about to blow up? What if most everything is slowly getting better and better? Would there be nothing to worry about then? The new book by Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, Enlightenment ...
From the police blotter: New York City police have arrested a man wanted for raping a woman after forcing his way into her Upper Manhattan apartment. Jean Rodriguez ... allegedly raped the 20-year-old woman Tuesday after ...
When I was asked to name the contemporary writer whom I most admired, I used without hesitation to say—until he died in 2014—Pierre Ryckmans, better known as Simon Leys. Leys was a Belgian who lived more than half his ...
It’s not uncommon for me to get into discussions about celebrities that go something like this: Him: Hey, you’ve heard of Mr. Big Name [a world-famous icon of masculinity], right? Me: Sure. Who hasn’t? Him: Well, ...
Like all societies before it, our society considers nothing more shameful than to be shameless. Thus, the Internet"which binds our society together like cheese binds a colon"is crammed with so much public shaming, ...
If there is a Next Wave of Transgenderism, Jonathan Yaniv is surfing its crest. He’s such an odd duck, even many trannies are distancing themselves from him. Jonathan is his birth name, and as far as I’m aware it’s ...
The Week's Most Dogmatic, Prostatic, and Schismatic Headlines CONGRESSWOMAN's HAIR COMPARED TO JAMES BROWN's, WORLD RECOILS IN RIGHTEOUS HORROR"¨Since 1991, Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters has represented much of ...
The social sciences are supposed to help us make better decisions about the future, not to slather us in ...
If dissident rightists spend more time criticizing the official right than criticizing the left, it’s because we know there can’t be a real right in this country if conservatives constantly play by the left’s terms, ...
NEW YORK—Leave it to a bunch of self-important self-righteous self-serious journalists to miss the whole point. (That’s what they call themselves. They prefer the French word instead of the word that was used for 150 ...
Trannies remind me of libertarians. To be more precise, the thing I find most objectionable about trannies is also the thing I find most objectionable about the hardcore, uncompromising “no government” ...
There is a phenomenon here in the Northeast where being conservative—no, wait, being not left—is to turn everyone in the room into Donald Sutherland from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, screaming and pointing at you as ...
Last Saturday, at Gallery 151 in New York, photographer Lucian Wintrich put on a pro-Trump art show entitled "Daddy Will Save Us." I was one of the featured artists and contributed three large-format prints. There ...
NEW YORK"There's some guy at the world headquarters of CVS drugstores screwing with me. I don"t know who he is yet, but he lives in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. This is where CVS Health, the largest drugstore chainin ...
Don Lemon is a black man, and the evidence is overwhelming that black people are very bad at math. This may help explain—although it does not excuse—the fact that when the gay black CNN anchor insisted last week that ...
I’m a middle-class child of immigrants. I’m told we were poor when my parents emigrated from Scotland to Canada in the 70s, but I don’t remember any of that. All I remember is a bucolic childhood where I ...
Er, no offense to people being beheaded in the Middle East but, uh, what are you doing there? James Foley had been abducted before. In 2011 he was detained while reporting on the Libyan civil war. Why did he go back? Was ...
