Hormonal Politics
I"m writing my weekly column the evening before Election Day for you to read starting an hour after the polls close on the West Coast. As you may have noticed, I"ve strenuously avoided making any election ...
I"m writing my weekly column the evening before Election Day for you to read starting an hour after the polls close on the West Coast. As you may have noticed, I"ve strenuously avoided making any election ...
Jacques Chirac, when he was mayor of Paris, offered the municipal workers a deal: They could have a short workweek if in exchange they agreed to verification that they actually worked during those hours. The workers, or ...
I began my journalistic career under strict censorship. It was imposed on the press and media by the Greek colonels who had seized power in a bloodless coup in Athens on April 21, 1967. Censorship, however, suited me fine. ...
Two months ago, I wrote about my hometown and its so-called Mexican problem. I made the point that, generally speaking, most white and Asian Angelenos are okay with the "browning" of traditionally black ...
Few Westerners could locate Jordan on a map. If they think about it at all, it likely concerns Queen Noor, the glamorous wife of former King Hussein. So why should anyone bother knowing anything about Jordan? First and ...
A letter from a reader in South Africa mentions that the writer’s father insisted a white dinner jacket was permissible only in Palm Beach, Biarritz, or the Riviera. I agree and stand corrected, having worn one at the ...
Not three years ago, in these very virtual pages, I mourned the extinction of the loony-bin luminary. Bedlam and Bellevue were once bursting with faux Napoleons and ersatz Anastasias. These days, the lunatics"exiled ...
Joseph Campbell suggested as a matter of fact that Westerners do not consider the Chinese to be people. It’s why the Chinese have a portrait of Mao hanging from one “Gate of Heavenly Peace,” and we get our pictures ...
The Week’s Pearliest, Whirliest, and Churliest Headlines NEW YORK TIMES: SEXUAL ASSAULT IS NO BIG DEAL In a move that will shock and traumatize those who have been victimized by sexual assault—as well as all those ...
When a draft-dodging con man such as Bill Clinton begins to sound like General George Patton, most intelligent people realize that the fix is in. Clinton recently remonstrated with Obama over the latter’s inaction in ...
After four months of looting, arson, window breaking, vandalism, intimidation, physical assaults, stabbings and shootings by Black Lives Matter and antifa, the first thing on the media's mind is ... getting Trump to condemn ...
The Week's Most Spastic, Drastic, and Plastic Headlines BILL CLINTON’S FEMALE ACCUSERS GO BONKERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA While the bombshell news story over the weekend was the possibly campaign-sinking release of a tape ...
Every time we endure another comedian-related "controversy""two weeks ago it was The Daniel Tosh Rape Joke Experience"other comedians quickly rise to express their outrage: "Isn"t a comedy club ...
Malcolm Horne, a London barrister, has written in very blunt terms regarding the planned land grab in South Africa: “You cannot have land expropriation without compensation. It is illegal under international law. It is ...
So apparently the Academy Awards are now the most racist, evil thing in the world, having surpassed the left's last most racist, evil thing in the world (what was that again? Halloween costumes? Interracial wrestling? It's ...
“Things are in the saddle,/And ride mankind.” —Emerson Last week National Review published an unintentionally funny bit of sophistry by Kevin Williamson. “The division of labor is the meaning of life,” the ...
I write this from a small village high up in the Swiss Alps, where I have just left the tiny police station with a warning: Arab women are permitted in the Swiss-German part of the country to totally cover their face and ...
The Week’s Most Felonious, Euphonious, and Sanctimonious Headlines CRIME BLOTTER: GUNFIGHT AT THE VIOLENCE AIN’T O.K. CORRAL Gunfire erupted during an anti-violence vigil last Thursday night in Charlotte, NC. ...
You have to admit, the word “monkeypox” is fun to say: monkeypox, monkeypox, monkeypox. On the other hand, this less lethal relative of smallpox, which is now up to 2,000 confirmed cases in its first two months in the ...
In case you’ve been vacationing on Pluto and were unaware, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is being accused of tryin’ ta sorta do somethin’-somethin’ to a woman in the early 1980s when he was 17 and she was ...
I spoke too soon when I reported back in January that women no longer have any problems. The armchair Freedom Riders at the weirdly named Southern Poverty Law Center (or "$PLC" as one of its dogged critics prefers) ...
To London for much too brief a visit for a wedding, lunch with commodore Tim Hoare, and a look-see for a house. Yes, I am returning to live in London, but under one condition: It’s called Corbyn, and if he comes in, I ...
The Week’s Most Uxurious, Notorious, and Vainglorious Headlines IS HILLARY CLINTON PLOTTING A HOMICIDAL LEFTIST TAKEOVER? Although we cannot verify it, we suspect that Hillary Clinton may be responsible for more ...
While I was arguing about abortion recently with a pro-choice pal he said, "I just wish stupid people would stop having babies." This is a common sentiment among the smart community. Mike Judge's film Idiocracy ...
