The Week That Perished
The Week’s Soggiest, Foggiest, and Groggiest Headlines STEVIE WONDER: CLIMATE DENIERS ARE BLIND Last Tuesday—undoubtedly guided onstage by his handlers—Grammy-winning sight-deprived musician Stevie Wonder joined other ...
The Week’s Soggiest, Foggiest, and Groggiest Headlines STEVIE WONDER: CLIMATE DENIERS ARE BLIND Last Tuesday—undoubtedly guided onstage by his handlers—Grammy-winning sight-deprived musician Stevie Wonder joined other ...
I’m in Venice for the film festival that just ended, and as an American humorist once wired his paper, “Streets full of water, stop. Send funds, stop.” What is there to say about Venice that hasn’t already been said or ...
NEW YORK—News executives love disasters. They get to act like Chuck Norris and Assemble the Squad. “Maginnis, you cover first responders.” “Wilson, get over to NOAA and stay on those maps.” “Kelly, official press ...
My friend Jerry Pournelle has died at age 84. Jerry was the embodiment of a famous quote by his mentor in the science-fiction business, Robert A. Heinlein: A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, ...
The Week’s Most Artificial, Superficial, and Prejudicial Headlines BEING TOUGH ON BORDERS (ELSEWHERE) Without borders there is no nation, which is why those who oppose American borders obviously despise the American nation. ...
No doubt it is a sign of advancing age, and also of retirement, that these days I always take a siesta. This increases my productivity greatly, for I am energetically clearheaded only for an hour at a time, and always soon ...
Writing about an international crisis a couple of days before publication risks making you look like a fool—okay, a bigger fool than usual. Politicians, of course, suffer likewise. In the first days of the Norway campaign in ...
President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was prudent. While Lady Prudentia is not often a guest at the White House these days, I’m thankful when she pops in to temper ...
This year marks the 20th anniversary of one of the odder best-sellers of the 1990s, polymath Jared Diamond’s ambitiously entitled but rather dry Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Why did a book stuffed ...
Our grieving nation breathed a sigh of relief when the Associated Press broke the news that Hurricane Harvey was not a racist. “Black, white, rich, poor: Storm Harvey didn’t discriminate,” read the headline, because the ...
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 answer ...
The Week’s Dippiest, Drippiest, and Yippiest Headlines ANTIFA V. BLACKS Antifa (pronounced “an-TEE-fa”) is a group of psychopathically self-righteous masked pussies who live with their parents and refer to all ...
Freud said that dreams were the royal road to the unconscious—provided, of course, that the traffic was directed by him. His work has always seemed to me more like soothsaying than science, which perhaps explains its ...
Francis Fukuyama hypothesized the ending of history, but he failed to foresee the increasingly popular practice of the mending of history to delegitimize the right of the politically weak to their pride and property. Rewriting ...