Embracing Unemployment
We had better start learning to embrace unemployment. There aren’t that many jobs anymore, and those that exist pay wages that barely make it worth getting out of bed: The [Boston Business Journal] received an ...
We had better start learning to embrace unemployment. There aren’t that many jobs anymore, and those that exist pay wages that barely make it worth getting out of bed: The [Boston Business Journal] received an ...
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Mexico’s establishment party got kicked to the curb in Sunday’s election, winning only 16 percent of the vote, which should remind us that we are constantly told two rather contradictory things about immigration from ...
Is First Man, Damien Chazelle’s moody and moving biopic featuring Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong, anti-American for not having a flag in it? Actually, this family drama features a lovely shot of ...
It's hard to get Americans to care about Britain but it's worth checking in on those fannies once in a while to see how their social experiments are going, because we tend to follow close behind. Political correctness is ...
By any measure, the Los Angeles Times is a bad newspaper. Sure, it's the fourth-largest paper by circulation in the U.S., but that's akin to calling someone the fourth-least-terminal patient in the inoperable-cancer ward. ...
A year ago, after a decade of worsening pain from swinging hard since infancy, Tiger Woods, perhaps the highest-paid athlete in history, appeared headed for the same fate as Philip Seymour Hoffman, Prince, and Tom Petty. ...
The Week’s Most Quixotic, Sclerotic, and Unpatriotic Headlines FACEBOOK BANS VIOLENT THREATS UNLESS THE TARGET IS “DANGEROUS” Because violence isn’t violence so long as it’s directed at someone who’s evil, ...
He makes running the world look easy. I’ve been watching Russian President Putin’s merciless wielding of the rule of law, Moscow-style. The president"might as well call him the Tsar, considering Mikhail ...
Gay activists insist that “faggot” comes from the word for the kindling beneath the feet of heretical homosexuals. That’s a lie. But while the word “faggot” doesn’t come from “a ...
"But why would any white guy want to say "nigger"?" My perpetually outraged white leftist friend was, to nobody's shock but hers, outraged after viewing a thread on my Facebook page in which some fellow I ...
The great sinologist and literary essayist Simon Leys began his essay on the French writer André Malraux by telling the story of a village priest who reduced his whole congregation to tears by the ardor of his ...
The RMS Titanic was notoriously marketed as “unsinkable” because it featured sixteen internal watertight compartments. If its hull sprang a leak at any one spot, doors would automatically shut and contain the water. If ...
Hope, our grandmothers told us, makes a good breakfast, but a poor supper. My guess is that where hope for convergence of the races in America is concerned, it's around 6 p.m. on that schema. Not suppertime yet, but ...
I remember well a burglar who was angry at his imprisonment. I was examining him medically shortly after his arrival in what locals called “the big house.” “I don’t need prison,” he said. “Prison’s no good to ...
I remember it well. It was July 1952, and I was dining with my parents at the Palm Beach Casino’s patio in Cannes when my father got up and went inside to gamble. He came back rather excited and told us that a friend of ...
The 20th-century Turkish concept of a "deep state" first spread to other Mediterranean countries such as Italy, and is now slowly being picked up by American pundits. Ex"Republican congressional staffer Mike ...
Woke is the concept that everything must be inclusive and inoffensive. Oh dear! Being hyperaware of everyone’s sensitivities must make one a hell of a bore. I recently flew down to Charlottesville, Virginia, where I had ...
Perhaps my favorite mental pastime is studying the long, stupid, twisted arc of how social taboos develop. What’s especially fascinating to me is how what’s considered sacred and profane can completely flip ...
One of the pleasures of The Rolling Stones is that until recently they seem to have gotten by without a care for the bland pieties of the age. There have been no impassioned calls from them to end world hunger or get out of ...
The USA, I"m sorry to see, is currently behind China in gold medals, 17-12. And oh dear, there’s Britain, with only two gold medals. It’s only Wednesday night, though"end of the fifth day, eleven still ...
About two months ago I mentioned my disappointment that Raleigh, NC lacked Southern culture, only to be informed in the comment section that true sweet-tea-drinking Southerners don"t even consider the city to be part of ...
Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. is the sort of guy you"d expect to go on a shooting rampage at two different Jewish community centers and wind up killing three Christians instead. Whether he's a stooge, a tool, a crafty ...
With the impeachment nonsense making TV news unwatchable, I've been catching up on "Law & Order: SVU" recently. The scripts involve the sort of real-life crimes that are a lot more common since our country has become ...
The Week's Most Inveterate, Degenerate, and Confederate Headlines GAY LAWYER HASSLES IVANKA TRUMP ON A PLANE Ivanka Trump is the beautiful and eminently bangable blonde daughter of President-Elect and Emperor-to-Be Donald ...
