Golfing With the Fishes
Malcolm Gladwell published in The New Yorker a long essay, "The Crooked Ladder: The Gangster's Guide to Upward Mobility," on how black drug dealers today are just like Italian mafiosi, and their descendants would ...
Malcolm Gladwell published in The New Yorker a long essay, "The Crooked Ladder: The Gangster's Guide to Upward Mobility," on how black drug dealers today are just like Italian mafiosi, and their descendants would ...
U.S. air strikes since Friday have opened a corridor through which tens of thousands of Yazidis, trapped and starving on a mountain in Iraq, have escaped to safety in Kurdistan. The Kurds, whose peshmerga fighters were sent ...
You know that one time a month when you"re arguing with a lady friend and she says something that makes your neck recoil in confusion? You"ll stop the fight for a second and think to yourself, "That doesn"t ...
Lately I"ve been hearing more and more dribs and drabs of the depressing controversy over whether literature has any empire left over pop culture. Well, that depends on what you mean by "literature." Up till the ...
August has been turning into Black Movie Month. This year, Tate Taylor, the white guy from Mississippi who directed August 2011's The Help, is back with a stylized James Brown musical biopic, Get On Up, that's less reverential ...
I generally don’t care about the Middle East, but since no one ever seems to shut the fuck up about it for more than five minutes, I will state for the record that I think modern Israel was a bad idea from the get-go. ...
I am looking out my window at the green landscape and forested mountains rising beyond, as peaceful a scene as there is in this troubled world, but this is Switzerland, a country that hasn’t fought a war in 700 years, ...
It was the Sun King, Louis XIV, who uttered the immortal edict of classical despotism: "L"Ãtat, c"est moi!" There is some debate amongst historians as to whether Louis ever uttered these precise ...
Canada is nice in a totalitarian sort of way, like some lost episode of The Twilight Zone where no one locks their doors and everyone is super polite"or else. "Submitted for your approval": if you live in Canada, ...
With the party united, the odds are now at least even that the GOP will not only hold the House but also capture the Senate in November. But before traditional conservatives cheer that prospect, they might take a closer look ...
Every time I hear that we live under a "patriarchy," I close my eyes, click my heels, snap my fingers, and wish that it were true. But when I open my eyes, it's obvious that men in the West are demoralized and in a ...
The Week's Bloodiest, Muddiest, and Cruddiest Headlines THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE: A WHITE SUPREMACIST? White people in the Anglosphere are so mentally beaten down these days that they dare not make a peep about being white ...
Boo to the C.I.A.! It got caught spying on Germany and its top man in Berlin has been sent home. What I"d like to know is, what's so important about Berlin's open-book policies that we had to play dirty with them? Maybe ...
Islam is poppin" off. We"re told it's the fastest growing religion in the world and they also say it's the fastest growing religion in America. We all know diversity is our strength and America is a melting pot so it ...