Election 2016: Chicks v. Dicks
Should being a rapist disqualify a man from the nation’s highest office? What if he merely says mean things about chicks? From what I’ve been told, this is supposed to be important"possibly the most important ...
Should being a rapist disqualify a man from the nation’s highest office? What if he merely says mean things about chicks? From what I’ve been told, this is supposed to be important"possibly the most important ...
President Obama is spending the waning months of his administration with his grubby hands in an oddly appropriate place: the toilet. Apparently, the prez has an obsession with trans folk and bathrooms. Yes, the "men in the ...
There is no libertarian moment. Contrary to popular opinion, the self-styled "liberty movement" is not ushering in a new era of freedom. Friedrich Hayek's books aren"t flying off the shelf. Rand Paul's sclerotic ...
The currently approved conceptual framework for American race relations dictates that whites"all of them, simply by dint of being white"are oppressors. Any deviation from this rigid script, no matter how deeply rooted ...
Eagles of Death Metal recently finished a Canadian tour and I got to sit down with vocalist Jesse Hughes and discuss the Bataclan attack in Paris that killed 89 of his fans. You"d think he"d want to avoid the topic, ...
There's been a lot of talk about Trump as the so-called "alt-right" candidate, but he's actually been running an "alt-center" campaign, staking out positions that are controversial because they dissent in a ...
Forty-eight hours after Donald Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination with a smashing victory in the Indiana primary, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced that he could not yet support Trump. In millennial teen-talk, Ryan ...
The Week's Most Ill-Bred, Misread, and Brain-Dead Headlines TRUMP WINS, GOP THROWS TANTRUM Last Tuesday in the Indiana primary, Donald Trump delivered what amounted to an electoral anal-fisting to the two remaining GOP ...
Once the French had cleared out of Moscow in October 1812, special commissions were set up to investigate those who had played nice with the invaders. Only 22 people, all of them of foreign extraction, had failed to remain ...
When you take away a man's identity, is he left with anything worthwhile? I pondered that question when listening to a sympathetic NPR report on a Mexican-American's experience in college. Pablo Ramirez is a student at San ...
Last week California lawmakers shot down a proposal to declare May 26th “John Wayne Day” in honor of the iconic actor’s birthday. At issue were comments that “The Duke” had made in a May 1971 ...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said of William Shakespeare, the 400th anniversary of whose death has just passed, that he was capable of writing tragedies only about individuals, or small groups of individuals, because he lived at a ...
Whether the establishment likes it or not, and it evidently does not, there is a revolution going on in America. The old order in this capital city is on the way out, America is crossing a great divide, and there is no going ...
The much-discussed death of Prince last week brings up an old question: Why do pop stars tend to be rather fey? Granted, using Prince as an example of any statistical pattern is a dubious enterprise. Prince went through life ...