Equality: Where’s the Evidence?
With all due respect to the Founding Fathers, I do not find it "self-evident" that all men are created equal. If anything, it appears bleedingly obvious that they are highly"even comically"unequal. About a ...
With all due respect to the Founding Fathers, I do not find it "self-evident" that all men are created equal. If anything, it appears bleedingly obvious that they are highly"even comically"unequal. About a ...
The Week’s Most Political, Hypocritical, and Sodomitical Headlines WILD IN THE STREETS Police and antigovernment protesters clashed on streets across the globe last week. In all instances except one, the police emerged ...
People who were charged with a crime in England used to be told by the police that they did not have to say anything, but that anything they did say might be taken down and used as evidence against them. I think we should all ...
A concerned reader sent me a link to this video in which, he said, my name was taken in vain. Yes, I know, it’s an irritating imposition on readers to open a column by linking to a 31-minute video clip. I’ll be ...
On this 100th anniversary of the Great War, the rise of anti-Russian jingoism in the American media is apparent to both the right and the left. In The Nation, NYU Russian Studies professor Stephen F. Cohen lamented about the ...
It’s Black History Month, but gays are the new blacks, so let’s dip into some timely homosexual lore: On Valentine’s Day, 1974, we were informed that “David Bowie turned down a Gay Liberation group who ...
I suppose the biggest topical subject of the moment is the Winter Olympics. Unfortunately, sport has never been my thing. I can"t catch, throw, or hit, have precious little sense of balance, and run like a duck on ice. As ...
The Week's Most Reactive, Unattractive, and Putrefactive Headlines SOUTHERN WORKERS TELL UNION: "DROP DEAD" The American labor movement"or whatever's left of it"was dealt a knee to the groin last Friday when ...
Call me sentimental, but I’ve never seen a better opening ceremony than the Sochi one, evoking Russia’s great past in literature and many other things. The ballet sequence was tops, especially the acrobatics by the ...
The Week's Most Dumb, Glum, and Ho-Hum Headlines OLYMPIAN CONTROVERSIES The Sochi Winter Olympics are underway, and in a world where nothing is apolitical anymore, luges and ice skates are being shoved aside to make way for ...
GSTAAD—A heavy snowfall diverted some forty-odd private jets from landing in Saanen airport, thus the one percent of the one percent that came to Gstaad for a grand wedding last weekend used conventional travel methods. ...
Ah, the guttering candle of civilization! How I love it. The dwindling flames warm the cockles of a curmudgeon's heart (whatever precisely a cockle may be): the galloping rot, the stampede to enstupidation, the gathering night ...
I just watched the Super Bowl, and boy, am I bored. What's worse, I am left with an empty, restless, lonely sense of ennui and purposelessness in the pit of my soul, which hovers mere inches above the pit of my stomach. ...
The Week's Most Contemptible, Reprehensible, and Indefensible Headlines ATLANTA's TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE: BLAME THE SNOW BECAUSE IT's WHITE Atlanta"a city of barely a half-million people in a metro area more than ten times ...