Robert Mugabe, sempiternal president of Zimbabwe, was recently booed and jeered in parliament, suggesting that, after more than a third of a century in power and at the age of 91, he still has a thing or two to learn about ...
It is rumored that in winning the crown, Campbell beat out several contestants who actually have ...
The Week’s Most Aggressive, Obsessive, and Oppressive Headlines VALERIE PLAME NAMES THE WRONG NAME As everyone knows, only some loser goofball anti-Semite would suggest something so preposterous as the idea that wealthy ...
When it comes to this whole COVID-19 hall of mirrors and how we possibly find our way out if this creepy carnival exhibit we’re trapped inside hoping it’s not really a cheesy horror movie made flesh, it seems that ...
Recently two Parisian taxi drivers of African origin have told me that they wished to return to Africa, and had concrete plans actually to do so. Several of their friends had similar plans. I asked them why, and their ...
Come now, all ye tired, poor, and huddled masses of illegal immigrants and bomb-tossing Islamists"according to the Associated Press Stylebook, you don"t even exist anymore. Despite the fact that you are now ...
Roughly half of the emails I get from my blog readers ask, "Where do you get this stuff?" while the other half contain "this stuff": links to crazy stories and freaky photos with "Thought of you" in ...
Is there anything better for Christmas than a bit of a laugh? Well, a visit by, say, the blonde CIA agent in Homeland would be preferable, but I think she's got other things on her mind than yours truly. Great comebacks are ...
In her new book The Obamas, Jodi Kantor, a New York Times White House correspondent, recounts that Jacqueline Kennedy once fled the White House without her tomcatting husband for a month’s vacation in Florida, dumping her ...
WEST ORANGE, N.J.—When I was a young man, and the editor, or the producer, or the executive, would tell me that he was about to censor me, the reason was always, “Your material offends the older people.” Now that ...
It is so easy to gull the pack, the herd. It just takes a bit of theater. A brass band on the Fourth of July, flags whipping in the wind, young soldiers marching down Main Street, rhythmic thump-thump-thump of boots. There ...
In early 2012, a conservative blogger I had never heard of named Brooks Bayne, who apparently had a website of some sort (and who, according to some, is a white nationalist), published a piece about the leftist boyfriend of ...
C.S. Lewis once said: "Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters." He wasn"t entirely right. Some 230-odd years ago ...
Our elected representatives, including many judges, more and more refuse to comply with federal immigration law. They do not conceive of themselves as disinterested agents of a system that it is their duty to serve and, by ...
Donald Trump is not the most scholarly American, but he could do education a bit of good. It's not even all that necessary for Trump to appoint effective administrators to key roles in the Department of Education and in ...
Brothers, gents, countrymen, and assorted randy lads and bucks galloping like centaurs through fields of feminine flowers and wantonly squirting their seed the world over, I regret to inform you that the worm has turned on ...
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I never liked Bill Cosby. If, anytime between 1984 and 1992, I"d been overwhelmed by a hankering to watch a loud, pompous middle-aged man yell at his family, I"d have moved back in with my alcoholic ...
Friday evening’s Donald Trump rally in Chicago was broken up by a foul-mouthed mob that infiltrated the hall and forced the cancelation of the event to prevent violence and bloodshed. Brownshirt tactics worked. The ...
The Week’s Chilliest, Frilliest, and Silliest Headlines HOLLYWOOD’S SEXUAL-ASSAULT FREIGHT TRAIN KEEPS ON A-ROLLIN’ Ever since the tiny elites who cluster together in tiny swaths of America’s coasts appointed ...
The Week's Most Quixotic, Robotic, and Idiotic Headlines WORLD RECOILS IN SHOCK AND HORROR AS BRITAIN VOTES TO BECOME BRITISH AGAIN Because English voters are small-minded, xenophobic, Islamophobic, pasty-skinned, elderly ...
I’ll bet you didn’t realize that “Jingle Bells” is an unabashed celebration of white supremacy and that “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” inadvertently celebrates the bullying of a closeted homosexual. What’s ...
The mystery movie Knives Out is an allegory about how Americans deserve to lose our homeland to Latin American immigrants out of our self-destructive hatred for each other. But that’s a good thing, the film says, because ...
PALM BEACH, Fla."Now that President-elect Trump has promised to supercharge the economy, vanquish China as a trade competitor, and make us all billionaires, you might be a little confused. You"ve never been a ...
In 1974, a daredevil walked across a tightrope that connected the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. It was called “the artistic crime of the century.” The DA considered trespassing charges but dropped them in ...
