Birth of the Victory Riot
The great mystery of my lifetime has been the 1960s. It's worth returning to this vast subject periodically as new perspectives unveil themselves. The closest thing to a successful prophecy of that era was made by ...
The great mystery of my lifetime has been the 1960s. It's worth returning to this vast subject periodically as new perspectives unveil themselves. The closest thing to a successful prophecy of that era was made by ...
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s opening bid to Speaker John Boehner, a demand for $1.6 trillion in new taxes, was not meant as a serious offer. It was an ultimatum couched in an insult. Translation: “We won the ...
Why do we still read Henry Louis Mencken? He was mostly a columnist, and columns are usually forgotten the day after they are published. One of the main reasons we still read Mencken is that he was enormously funny. The ...
"White People Problems" is a loaded term that combines a facetious reference to white privilege with the accusation that we"re all pampered ingrates. Never mind that about half of America's poor are white. Well, ...
In the United States the Powerball lottery has topped $550 million. Far too often unexpected wealth of such magnitude has been witness to tragedy. Thus here are some useful tips concerning the more common mistakes to avoid ...
Nate Silver is most famous for steadily predicting Barack Obama's reelection (which, as you may have heard, happened). Yet his new bestseller The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail"But Some Don"t is a ...
About a year ago an Italian judge ordered me, as a condemned criminal, to perform 166 hours of unpaid "lavoro socialmente utile" (socially useful work). I kept putting it off until three weeks ago when I could put it ...
As the leftist juggernaut blithely steamrollers its way over what's left of this country, its blinkered acolytes have smugly convinced themselves that they are on "the right side of history" and that any dissenters are ...
Having spent over half my life in the professional company of academics, I can state with certainty that gender-neutral societies suck. Admittedly the university is not yet antiseptically free of gender references. It ...
The unfortunately named Nadra Kareem Nittle recently penned a popular article instructing the ignorant about how to deal with "racist" relatives. The article was so gay that I couldn"t finish it, but it brought up ...
Why is it that adultery can ruin a man’s career but rarely a woman’s, at least in so-called civilized countries? (In Saudi Arabia an adulterous woman is stoned to death.) An American diplomat slated to become the next ...
There has been an outbreak of realism recently. I noticed it first in the postelection commentary. The normal thing is that following an election, the thumb-sucking commentariat carves up the result by interests: region, ...
Joe Wright first directed Keira Knightley in a decent remake of Pride and Prejudice in 2005. Two years later, Wright and Knightley almost hit the Academy Award jackpot with the glossy Atonement, an adaptation of Ian ...
You know how "If you remember the 60s, you weren"t there"? Here's mine: "It's not "genocide" if you"re still here." Sorry, disgruntled African Americans. There are exponentially more of you in ...