Race/Off
In the 1997 film Face/Off, Cage and Travolta swap faces. Welcome to L.A. 2017, where parents swap races. Folks often ask me how I came to attend an all-black high school. Alexander Hamilton High (“Hami”) was supposed to ...
In the 1997 film Face/Off, Cage and Travolta swap faces. Welcome to L.A. 2017, where parents swap races. Folks often ask me how I came to attend an all-black high school. Alexander Hamilton High (“Hami”) was supposed to ...
The most amazing thing about Josh Fox's anti-fracking documentary Gasland is that despite valid factual criticisms of the film, he forged ahead and made a sequel. Hollywood loves the war on fracking because at first glance, ...
As promised last week, here is Part II of random ruminations on my fifteen minutes of worldwide fame six months ago. But first a housekeeping note. Some commenters and emailers have wondered if there is a transcript of ...
Who would have thought the best presidential ad of the cycle would come from a self-identified socialist? Senator Bernie Sanders" latest campaign video is not full of demagoguery or puerile cracks about personal ...
The Week's Dinkiest, Stinkiest, and Kinkiest Headlines A VERY RACIAL OSCARS The "white" people who control Hollywood and the Academy Awards"and therefore dictate how Americans think about cultural issues and ...
One hour and one minute into the first presidential debate, Donald Trump finally mentioned, in passing, the word that had gotten him this far: "border." And then Trump immediately forgot to bring up borders ...
One of the surprises in Thomas Piketty's best seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century is how grating the Frenchman's prose style turns out to be. Granted, Piketty has valid reasons for being perpetually outraged at his ...
NEW YORK—The only thing worse than a sore loser, I suppose, is a sore winner, but thank God we don’t run into too many of those. Thirty years ago The Spectator and I lost a libel case that cost the then proprietor and ...
Ever since Timothy McVeigh's 2001 execution, the American left has waited in joyful hope for his second coming. More than a decade on, they desperately need another great white "Christian" dope whose name they can ...
If you get into a Brooklyn taxi and don’t see a Puerto Rican flag, ask the driver, “So what’s the deal with the Puerto Ricans?” Without exception, all cabdrivers who are not themselves Puerto Ricans will launch into ...
Every nation has, in its collective psyche, a special place for its bloodiest war: a place warmed with intense emotions and turbulent with unresolved"probably unresolvable"controversies. For Americans that place is ...
Like the late Christopher Hitchens, who only discovered his Jewish roots once he had moved to New York in the late Seventies, Donald Sterling has also had a revelation and is advertising the fact that he’s a Jew. For any ...
Folks on the right love to pontificate about L.A. with no concern for accuracy. Case in point: Last month a well-connected film financier jumped to his death from a building in Century City, and needless to say, everyone on ...
Like apparently everybody who can read, still a probable majority in the U.S., I have just finished Nicholas Wade's A Troublesome Inheritance, which deals with the genetics of human behavior, race, intelligence, how they ...
The so-far triumphant transgender movement is a political coalition that includes two polar opposite sets of allies who are so radically different in their thought styles that they can’t even begin to understand each ...
The only time I regret not being much richer than I am is when I receive through the post (as I did yesterday) the catalogue of an antiquarian bookseller. Otherwise, I am more or less contented with my financial lot, but ...
In last week’s column, I advised my readers to appreciate life’s nuances. And there’s a nuance in the “cancel culture” wars that’s often overlooked. Question: Why was Roseanne Barr’s career completely ...
If there's one thing I hate, it's an inscrutable Asian. Not because of the inscrutability, mind you, but rather because I despise seeing people conform to shopworn stereotypes. Last week, L.A. Times "investigative arts ...
Did I ever tell you about the time my doctor almost killed me? From childhood I’ve been troubled by acid reflux. And before you write that email offering your amazing cure (“drink five cups of vinegar, spin around ten ...
NEW YORK— I now know it by heart. Brooklyn Heights, that is. It takes 35 minutes by cab from where I live on the Upper East Side, and approximately $30. I even walked to the Heights once: one hour down the FDR, turn left ...
Among the many ways of dividing humanity into two is to slice between those who love, and those who detest, questions that are intrinsically unanswerable. Of the latter were the logical positivists, who believed that a ...
Marianne Williamson is easily the most entertaining candidate the Democrats have belched up this go-round, so let us gather to celebrate her campaign before it likely craps out on Wednesday and she gets disqualified from ...
The Japanese: nuked too much, or not enough? Exhibit A: Their epidemic affection for a century-old B-list children's book set in Canada's teeniest province and starring the original "red-headed stepchild," a ...
Angus Deaton and his wife, Anne Case, completed a study last year asserting that the death rates for American middle-aged working-class whites, especially males, have been increasing over the past twenty years while the ...
