Demagogue Days
Back in the good old days of 2,500 years ago, the Greeks blamed the gods for their self-induced disasters. In modern times the Brits were to blame and then the Americans. Now it's the Germans. Modern Greeks are not renowned ...
Back in the good old days of 2,500 years ago, the Greeks blamed the gods for their self-induced disasters. In modern times the Brits were to blame and then the Americans. Now it's the Germans. Modern Greeks are not renowned ...
The concept of America being divided into sprawling red Republican regions and dense blue Democrat districts first became a cliché In November"December 2000. Over the past decade and a half I"ve probably thought as ...
Courtney Love was right, and she was robbed. Thirty years ago, while still an unknown, she campaigned relentlessly to win the role she quite reasonably believed she was born to play: that of the clownishly made-up, blond, ...
I’ve never seen a Star Trek movie and I"ve only seen one episode of the original TV series"the one with the Tribbles. Otherwise, the evidence leads me to suspect that subliminal messages littered throughout the ...
Geraldo and Ann Coulter recently had a debate about immigration that was fun to watch, but Washington Heights came up as an example of "immigrant vitality." It was wedged in with a bunch of other predominantly Hispanic ...
In 1994, a black man told an audience at New Jersey’s Kean College, "White folks was in the caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them ...
On June 24, NBC News prominently featured a story on its website headlined "White Americans Are Biggest Terror Threat in U.S.: Study." Clicking the link took readers to a site called GlobalPost, and an article that ...
When I founded The American Conservative magazine 13 years ago–the purpose being to shine a light on neocon shenanigans that led to the greatest American foreign-policy disaster ever—Pat Buchanan and I held a press ...
T.S. Eliot's observation that "human kind cannot bear very much reality" is surely up among the half-dozen wisest things ever said about our common nature. There is, of course, individual variation in how much reality ...
As you may have noticed, the more denunciations we hear of Cisgender Straight White Male Privilege, the more the evidence mounts that, all else being equal, the rewards in 2015 tend to lie on the other side. If you want to ...
I owe everything I know about British seaside resorts (such as the unfortunately named Blackpool) to three pseudo"kitchen sink movies and a single Squeeze song. No wonder I can"t fathom why anyone would care to ...
The Week's Sauciest, Glossiest, and Mossiest Headlines A NEW WAY TO KEEP HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS ALIVE FOREVER When they said, "Never forget," they weren"t kidding! Seventy years after World War II ended, the world ...
I rarely read comments, but someone recently sent me this one from David Brooks" op-ed "The Campus Crusaders." Anne from New York City wrote: It's not trauma; it's narcissism. I am a psychotherapist. Real trauma ...
Working-class whites, prole whites, salt-of-the-earth whites who are the soldiers of our army and work in our factories make up Fishtown, a bloc of America that Charles Murray dreamed up in his book Coming Apart: The State of ...