The Casting Crib
As legions of Hollywood actresses step forth with lurid allegations against snub-nosed hedgehog Harvey Weinstein and others over their serial abuse of the casting couch, can a wave of pedophilia accusations against ...
As legions of Hollywood actresses step forth with lurid allegations against snub-nosed hedgehog Harvey Weinstein and others over their serial abuse of the casting couch, can a wave of pedophilia accusations against ...
Fifty-eight people dead in the Las Vegas massacre and 489 wounded. The location feels grimly fitting, for the city itself, a vast carnival of pleasure, is a testament to our pagan decadence. As with the San Bernardino and ...
NEW YORK—Wherever you stand on the Wetback Issue, you’re no longer allowed to say the following sentence: “Mexicans only take the dirty jobs that Americans won’t do.” I’ve been hearing this for thirty years. ...
Today many Americans will be celebrating Columbus Day. Many others will instead be commemorating something they call Indigenous Peoples Day. Which camp you fall in largely hinges on whether or not you think Christopher ...
NEW YORK—When the most popular music video in the world (3.8 billion views) is about the premeditated stalking of a woman by not just one but two guys while telling her in graphic detail what they plan to do to her body ...
Puerto Rico is a test case of whether nationalism is as dispensable as the heightening conventional wisdom assumes. Puerto Rico possesses many of the attributes assumed to represent the utopian post-national future, such as ...
Race in Latin America is confusing to many Americans, who generally can’t see beyond black and white. Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores and their families from Europe have always formed a kind of local aristocracy. Their ...
President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was prudent. While Lady Prudentia is not often a guest at the White House these days, I’m thankful when she pops in to temper ...
Back in March, I asked in my Taki’s Magazine column “Diversity Versus Debate”: Does the increasing campus hysteria and antirationality portend bad news for Silicon Valley? If students increasingly grow up in a culture in ...
The Week's Rowdiest, Dowdiest, and Cloudiest Headlines SPERM COUNTS PLUMMET ACROSS THE WEST It should come as no laughing matter to those who fret about the demographic decline of "The West""a place that is ...
In the first chapter of Shadows of Empire, a novel I wrote twenty years ago, an old shipbuilder and shipping magnate, in conversation with his grandson, my narrator, speaks up in 1906 for Free Trade. "Glasgow," he ...
Peonage, in which workers are bound to their jobs by debts to their employers, is a traditional curse of Latin American cultures. Perhaps inevitably, as the United States merges demographically with Mexico, Latin-style ...
Mark that one presidential promise unmet. The much-celebrated deal hatched between the incoming Trump administration and air conditioner manufacturer Carrier has fallen through. Last December, Trump put his famed negotiating ...
What's the worst college in America in terms of taking in kids from rich families and turning out young adults who, despite all their privileges, still won"t earn very much? By one way of counting, the biggest loser is ...