We see it every day. Pick a news story, any news story, and it's guaranteed that some journalist will spin it to scream "racism." Look at the past few weeks. David Letterman's farewell? "Unbearably white." ...
What I should have done is gone out and bought a lottery ticket. I’ll explain: The snow suddenly came down in buckets, icing the city and bringing gridlock like I’ve never seen before. The traffic cops in the Bagel are ...
There’s an old joke about a young comedian making his first appearance at a club in the Catskills. The opening act is a legendary old Borscht Belt comic, whose routine consists entirely of calling out numbers. ...
By their adverts shall ye know them; such, at any rate, is my supposition whenever I arrive at any airport. It did not surprise me greatly, when I arrived at Geneva Airport, that the advertisements on the way to the ...
You know you"re getting old when you can remember a time when Canadians were funny on purpose. John Candy, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy, the entire SCTV crew. Back then, Canadians invited the world to laugh with their ...
“He ended one war and kept us out of any other,” is the tribute paid President Eisenhower. Ike ended the Korean conflict in 1953, refused to intervene to save the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, and, rather ...
A British judge is reported to have wept recently as he sentenced two murderers for a particularly vicious and sadistic killing. A reporter for the BBC apparently wept on air as he described the aftermath of the Paris ...
The Week’s Most Taxed, Waxed, and Vaxxed Headlines THE CHILDREN ARE OUR FUTURE (GOD HELP US) This year’s 20th-anniversary 9/11 commemoration wasn’t exactly the patriotic pridefest it was supposed to be. Coupled with ...
SANDY HOOK, N.J."I need some French gendarmes in riot gear out here at Gunnison Beach. Can we borrow some? It's hard to find any American police officers who will walk up to sunbathing women and make aggressive ...
The 2016 presidential primary season has kicked off with a veritable Rainbow Coalition of prospective candidates. Rubio and Cruz are all-in for the GOP, with Fiorina and Carson likely additions to the field. Add Hillary ...
My first reaction to that over-discussed TIME magazine cover showing a woman breastfeeding her way-too-old son was: "Wait"TIME magazine is still around?" Predictably, this naked example of stunt publishing has ...
I moved out of Boystown over a decade ago, but still trek down there every five weeks to get my hair done. I can"t stomach the prospect of explaining to some new, nearby stylist that yes, I do want a perm, and yes, my ...
Scene: The Cambridge University Union in, as I remember, 1958. The invited speaker, Sir Oswald Mosley, the former leader of the British Union of Fascists, got up to his feet. A student dashed forward and hurled a custard ...
But of our work, the work of our order and in particular the work of this monastery, a part"indeed, the substance"is study, and the preservation of knowledge. Preservation of, I say, not search for, because the ...
One of the frustrations of writing a weekly column is that sometimes you wrap a piece, post it, and that very day the Special Olympians of public discourse provide fodder you wish you’d been able to include. I’d just ...
Theresa May is clearly delighted to be the first foreign leader to meet President Trump and has been trotting out the ritual "Special Relationship" phrase, one that makes many of us cringe with embarrassment. It's ...
Joseph Sobran: The National Review Years. (Vienna, Virginia: FGF Books, 2012.) Recently I received the galleys for the anthologized essays and book reviews by the late, great Joe Sobran (1946-2010). The anthology pieces ...
As a teenager trolling for role models, I latched onto all the female performers in the punk and New Wave camps: Nina Hagen, The Slits, Siouxsie Sioux"even, God help me, Lene Lovich. "All," that is, except ...
"It blew the doors off what we thought we knew about depression treatment." So said psychiatrist James Murrough of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, in reference to a chemical named ketamine. Forty percent of ...
This is a certainty: Donald Trump would be the next chancellor if he were running for office in Germany. Mass assaults on German women by recently arrived Muslim Arabs have finally managed to change even the inherited-guilt ...
As Pastor Martin Niemöller famously wrote: First they came for the loud, obnoxious, drunken neighbors who defecated on my front lawn, tossed their beer bottles through my window, harassed my children, raped my sister, ...
I just got back from Virginia Beach, and boy are my arms tired of gesticulating. We drove there to cover a surf competition, and spending 16 hours in a car with an all-male film crew inevitably leads to the question, ...
Black comedian Chris Rock has hosted the Academy Awards twice—in 2005 and 2016. Before hosting his first Oscars, he joked that the only black men who watch the film industry’s self-congratulatory “fashion show” were ...
While reading yet another headline about, oh, I don’t know, a wayward dromedary whose scrotum was implanted with a cell-phone-triggered incendiary device designed to blow up a VW minibus filled with sorghum-harvesting ...
