A Tay–Bey Melee
The celebrity battles of the 21st century tend to be fought most fanatically by foot-soldier fans who assume that they will in some way benefit from their idol’s triumph. There’s a lot of magical thinking these days ...
The celebrity battles of the 21st century tend to be fought most fanatically by foot-soldier fans who assume that they will in some way benefit from their idol’s triumph. There’s a lot of magical thinking these days ...
There is no bigger douchebag in American politics than Joe Biden. There is possibly no bigger douchebag in the solar system. His florid, monster-truck-sized, off-the-charts douchiness was on ample display during Thursday ...
One of the reasons I read the liberal newspapers when I am in Britain"apart from the fact that they are the best"is that they irritate me so by their smug self-righteousness (my self-righteousness is never smug, it ...
To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the ‘60s and ‘70s, it is starting to look like “deja vu all over again.” And as Adlai Stevenson, Bobby Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey did then, ...
It’s only natural to be frightened of getting a needle stuck in your arm loaded with a novel vaccine developed at such a pace that few besides the optimistic President Trump believed it could be rolled out this ...
People get breathtakingly angry when they think they"ve gotten away with something ... and then they don"t. The more time has passed between the deed and the discovery, the greater the shock to one's system. And the ...
So Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign talking about Charlottesville. This tells us that life is so good for the fabulous people on the coasts -- the only group the Democratic Party really cares about -- that ...
Discussing the case of Jeffrey Epstein recently, my interlocutor asked me whether the indulgence in orgy by the rich and powerful was more frequent nowadays than ever before. I had to admit that I had no special historical ...
The eventual price of affluence, in both the individual and his culture, is the weakening of the judgment. Softened by sentimentalism, and reflecting moral and spiritual debasement, the mind becomes resistant to unflinching ...
Goody, goody gumdrops! The Donald has pardoned Lord Black and I couldn’t be happier. Conrad got a bum deal and spent three and a half years behind bars for charges I always believed to be phony, most of which were ...
What if I’m right about how the world works? What policies would that imply? My basic insight is that the world actually is pretty much what it looks like, loath as we may be to admit it. When it comes to human ...
The Week’s Most Historic, Euphoric, and Dysphoric Headlines IT’S OFFICIAL: DNC EMAILS WERE LEAKED, NOT HACKED With zero evidence but the sort of unblinking righteous fury that is the hallmark of fanatical morons, this ...
With Iron Man 3 hauling in $174 million at the box office last weekend, this is a good time to pay tribute to a great architect whose hold on the American imagination is finally getting the respect it deserves: John ...
With the sports and movie seasons in full swing in October, I"m reminded of the many unanswered and often even unasked questions about one of the more pervasive changes of my lifetime: the spread of weight lifting and ...
Driving through France recently, we stopped for the night in the small town of Loudun. It had that complete, and to me pleasing or even consolatory, deadness common to many small French towns, where there seems to be no ...
In South Africa the mood across the media and political spectrum is one of jubilation. On Wednesday last week the finance minister announced the country was bankrupt and offered no ideas on how he was going to revive the ...
NEW YORK—The master of the love letter to New York, E.B. White, eloquently described the city as a place that “can offer the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy.” Like many of us he believed the place would ...
One of the more curious books of 2018 is Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age by Donna Zuckerberg. She is the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is America’s leading fan of the ...
Abolish prison and give everyone a gun. The end. Good night. Oh wait, that's not enough for a column? Okay, how about legalize drugs too? I"m not kidding. I know it sounds outrageous but hate facts often are. Look, ...
Congratulations, Taki's! You made the big time! And by "big time" I mean, er, a bunch of telephone poles in one Toronto neighborhood. Right after Trump's election, this poster was discovered duct-taped around ...
"Income inequality" has become the global warming of economics, so it's sad but hardly surprising to see Pope Francis getting in on the act. I"m a cradle Catholic. I"ve worked for two Catholic newspapers ...
I didn’t go to college, let alone law school. So when I started joking a few years back"in response to my own legal troubles"that “libel is what we got when we abolished dueling,” I had no idea ...
Besides being a black woman at a time when the Biden administration is publicly committed to appointing a disproportionate number of black women, economist Lisa D. Cook’s prime qualification for her nomination to the ...
Fascism is presumed to be intrinsically and violently anti-Semitic, and the fascists wanted to exterminate the Jews, right? Wrong. That was the National Socialists. The German historian and journalist Emil Ludwig, who ...
