Sleuth and Consequences
Regular readers know how much I detest rightist “sleuths.” As I wrote in 2020 (in a column Tucker Carlson got in trouble for sharing), “sleuthing” is the opposite of noticing. Noticing means acknowledging reality; ...
Regular readers know how much I detest rightist “sleuths.” As I wrote in 2020 (in a column Tucker Carlson got in trouble for sharing), “sleuthing” is the opposite of noticing. Noticing means acknowledging reality; ...
Fictional dystopias are all the rage on page and screen today—just so long as they’re presented from a left-wing perspective. Then their fans can point at certain social trends they happen to disapprove of and yell ...
The Week’s Most Biting, Alighting, and GOP-Infighting Headlines THE PUDSUCKER PROXY A Gavin Newsom/Dianne Feinstein duet: Feinstein: Don’t cry for me, California! Ché Gavara: You were supposed to have been ...
Is it a sign of advancing age that the world seems to grow more absurd by the day, or does the world really grow more absurd by the day? If the latter, it means that there is an objective measure of absurdity, which I ...
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Gunnery Sergeant Hartman voice: “I have failed.” I have failed to beat sense into the Gomer Pyles of MAGA regarding Beverly Hills. I’ve shown election data. I’ve shown electoral maps. All to counter the patently false ...
Half a century ago, in 1972, mad black African cannibal dictator Idi Amin Dada (or “Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas,” as he preferred) suddenly decided to expel all Asian Indians and Pakistanis ...
The Week’s Most Jesting, Besting, and Oktoberfesting Headlines ALL HEBREWS’ EVE With October upon us, it’s a good time to salute an unsung hero of Halloween: Paul Rebalde Brooks. In October 1986, the actor-of-color took ...
Two days before flying to Turkey for a few days, I found a little book published in 1944 titled La Turquie d’Ismet Ineunu (The Turkey of Ismet Inonu). It was published by Fernand Sorlot not long before the end of the ...
You'd think the one thing Republicans would have learned from the 2016 Trump campaign is that voters wanted something completely different from what the GOP had been offering. For decades, Republicans had run on tax cuts, ...
Walter Isaacson’s biography Elon Musk is as strong as you’d expect from the author of the enormous 2011 bestseller Steve Jobs. The subject of Isaacson’s last book The Code Breaker, Jennifer Doudna, the coinventor of the ...
The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgments, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this ...
Now that your kids are “safely” back at school and college this September, what are they actually learning? How to eat shit, that’s what. In 2022, teaching materials endorsed by American teaching union the NEA were ...
The Week’s Most Bummer, Mummer, and Farewell to Summer Headlines SAGGY ASSES The actors’ strike marches on! Well, limps. The war between streamers and studios on one side and actors on the other has entered a new phase. ...