Rot Springs Eternal
Local headlines here in New York State recently have been dominated by corruption in the state legislature. The speaker of the lower house, the State Assembly, has had to resign his position after being arrested last ...
Local headlines here in New York State recently have been dominated by corruption in the state legislature. The speaker of the lower house, the State Assembly, has had to resign his position after being arrested last ...
I"m not sure if it's connected with the whole "gates of hell" thing, but you have to credit"if that's quite the right word"the Catholic church for accomplishing the previously unimaginable: Having first ...
The good news is that a Greek suppository is about to relieve the EU’s economic constipation. The bad is that there’s a Castro in our midst, posing—just like Fidel did 56 years ago—as a democratically elected populist. ...
As a serial entrepreneur, I"ve created and sold many companies over the years. From a media empire to an ad agency (we had quietly sold Rooster NY a year before it was shut down for transphobia) to some weird box that ...
It's not often that a Salon writer produces a lit piece that doesn"t make me grunt with rage. Aside from their hysterical loathing for male writers who won"t check their man parts at the door, their M.O. for dealing ...
Generally I don"t remember my dreams, and to judge by the few that I do remember I am rather glad that I don"t. Nor do I believe, pace Freud, that they are the royal road to the unconscious, still less that they ...
It is now nearly a hundred years since H.G. Wells remarked in his book The Outline of History that: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." It was an odd thing to write in ...
Recently I went from Paris to London for lunch, returning for dinner. This is made easy nowadays, though not necessarily cheap, by the Eurostar train. I am not usually given to such extravagances, always seeing personal ...
One buys books for peculiar reasons, and not only because they are good: for example, a few days ago I bought a book for its title and its opening sentence. The title was How Do We Become Criminal? and the opening sentence ...
The Week's Most Dubious, Salubrious, and Lugubrious Headlines THE DAY THE REDS SILENCED HOLLYWOOD On Friday the FBI announced that North Korean authorities were behind the cyber-terrorist group Guardians of Peace (AKA #GOP) ...
Here is my Christmas gift to Takimag readers, one that applies mostly to unmarried males, but it’s also available to married ones who might wish to test whether that old magic still works. (Female readers of the best ...
Last week, we learned Sony Pictures had been hacked and millions of people were downloading movies still in theaters. Sony seems to think North Korea may be behind it all, as their forthcoming film The Interview was deemed an ...
The Week's Most Hectic, Septic, and Apopleptic Headlines "SHIRTSTORM" AND OTHER PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF RITUAL BALL-BUSTING Perhaps the biggest news story regarding space travel since an evil white male named Neil ...
With the exception of the teeming masses of Philip K. Dick adaptations, science fiction movies (such as the new Interstellar) tend to be based on original screenplays rather than the genre's classic novels. One reason has ...