The Company They Kept
Jane Fonda uttered the words, “I will go to my grave” last week and I thought: “Finally!” Fonda recently talked to Oprah about that “one unforgiveable mistake” she made when she visited ...
Jane Fonda uttered the words, “I will go to my grave” last week and I thought: “Finally!” Fonda recently talked to Oprah about that “one unforgiveable mistake” she made when she visited ...
I am so sick of David Hogg, the pompadorable Parkland school shooting “survivor” and media-darling gun control activist. And I feel an intense need to publicly say just how sick I am of this kid, because, apparently, ...
The Week’s Most Guessing, Confessing, and Stop-the-Pressing Headlines THE CHUNG POISONER’S HANDBOOK Say Yu, say me Say it for always That bitch poisoned my tea! Tiger mom, meet lye-ger wife. She’s a whiz with ...
The Week's Most Haughty, Bawdy, and Tawdry Headlines GEORGE SOROS AND THE “NEW NORMAL” Multibillionaire currency manipulator and culture destroyer George Soros was hatched from a dinosaur egg in Hungary in ...
Last week I answered the common question of whether the higher black male crime rate is due to poverty when growing up by diving into Harvard economist Raj Chetty’s immense database: No, it turns out, black men are about ...
Walter Isaacson, the respected biographer of Steve Jobs, has turned his talents to Jennifer Doudna, who won last year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for coinventing the CRISPR gene editing technique. In his The Code Breaker: ...
A few days ago I received an e-mail from my British bank about my US$ account in Jersey. I have this account in Jersey because my mainland branch did not allow me to have such an account with it. The e-mail was from someone ...
An American friend who is very well connected in Washington, D.C. was telling me he's worried about Europe. So what else is new, I said. "No, I really mean it, future generations could grow up under Islamic rule." ...
Sometime in the late 1970s I was a wandering white boy who found myself at an anarchist bookstore in Center City Philadelphia called The Wooden Shoe, where I spotted a little red book called The Sayings of Chairman Frank, ...
The first round of the French presidential election is done, and the results are monumental. A new president hasn"t been decided, but the political realignment launched by Brexit, expanded by Donald Trump, and brought ...
As I watched last week’s Western posturing after the Russo-Chinese veto of the UN Security Council’s resolution against Syria, Captain Renault of Casablanca fame kept coming to mind. Like the good captain, who was ...
Nadya Suleman, you are everything that is wrong with the world at the moment. The question isn"t what's wrong with you"that's obvious. Everything is wrong with you. The real question: Is there anything right with ...
"Martin Luther toy becomes fastest selling Playmobil figurine of all time." Has anyone been keeping an eye on Germany lately? Because I think they"re getting even weirder than usual, and we all know what ...
A major epidemic in America, which seems to me to have received rather less publicity than its scale would warrant, is the dramatic increase in the number of deaths in the country from overdose of prescription opioids. In ...
In Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character time-travels back to his old public-school classroom. "I always felt my schoolmates were idiots," he declares. On cue, a staring, slack-jawed kid drawls, "Seven and ...
The Week’s Funkiest, Junkiest, and Monkeyist Headlines OPRAH FOR PRESIDENT! Oprah Winfrey is loved across the globe for being the fattest black female billionaire in world history, and for that, she deserves to be ...
I had a mouthful of barbecue when the white South African calmly explained the proper way to dispose of a dead black man. The topic was disturbing enough, but the deadpan delivery, and my suspicion that he was speaking from ...
The Week’s Most Curious, Spurious, and Injurious Headlines “GOY, BYE!”: BANNON RESIGNS Seen by many as the Trump Administration’s gin-blossomed face of anti-globalist populist fury, former Breitbart News ...
We love Yale sluts! “No” means “yes,” and “yes” means “anal”—that’s the beastly braying cry at Yale these days. The frat boys from Delta Kappa Epsilon (G. W. Bush’s club) have been accused of taunting ...
Why are there always rumors about male stars being gay? Maybe they’re true. Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct) claimed in his amusing 2006 book The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood, “With the exception of Russell ...
Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize in New York and Olivier Award in London, is the play I’ve been waiting for since the 1980s. Although Norris previously wrote six dramas for ...
Here are the times Democrats have conceded a presidential election with grace and dignity: OK, now on to my column. I hope someone is recording the media's demands that Trump supporters ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION! ...
You can get angry with machines, especially when you haven"t the faintest idea how they work. They seem to break down out of spite, just at the wrong moment; it is as if they are not completely inanimate but possessed ...
I get called a “racist” a lot, but one offhand remark I made during Obama’s 2008 campaign drew more flak than usual. I had simply wondered why the candidate’s admirers held up his parentage"a ...
