Fake Detective
Lately I"ve been hearing more and more dribs and drabs of the depressing controversy over whether literature has any empire left over pop culture. Well, that depends on what you mean by "literature." Up till the ...
Lately I"ve been hearing more and more dribs and drabs of the depressing controversy over whether literature has any empire left over pop culture. Well, that depends on what you mean by "literature." Up till the ...
Well, first of all, hummina hummina! Having some twentysomething bouncing around your house in a French maid's costume is a great reward for being wealthy enough to hire help. Just kidding. If you can"t handle having a ...
In 2014, the business model for journalism (so-called) is as follows: manufacture some perceived outrage and let the delicious page views and ad revenues flow forth. The Atlantic, a once-venerated font of American letters ...
Ah, the fifties. You had to be ...
The last time I checked in with the perpetually outraged, they were angry because we were lighting off fireworks. Apparently, July 4th celebrations glorify war, or something. Around the same time, we had Anthony Cumia lose his ...
I have just finished reading David Lebedoff's 2008 book The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War. No, this isn"t a book review"it's a bit late for that"only some loose reflections on what ...
The current surge of Central American children and mothers across the border has made a travesty of the schmaltzy arguments long employed to rationalize the government's winking at illegal immigration. George W. Bush famously ...
In New York and LA, tradition is for squares. Unfortunately, these rebels rarely come up with anything better. If you want to reinvent the wheel and design a whole new way to live an adult life, go bananas. Nobody gives a ...
When Bill de Blasio crushed his Republican rival, Joe Lhota, by 49 points in 2013, more than a few New Yorkers were worried. De Blasio was an unabashed leftist who proudly served with Nicaragua's Sandinistas and fervently ...
One of the surprises in Thomas Piketty's best seller Capital in the Twenty-First Century is how grating the Frenchman's prose style turns out to be. Granted, Piketty has valid reasons for being perpetually outraged at his ...
The Week's Most Baneful, Painful, and Disdainful Headlines U.S. GAMBLES $6 TRILLION ON IRAQ, LOSES The United States military spent eight years tearing Iraq to pieces in order to "stabilize" it, only to see the ...
Walking through Amsterdam recently, a paradox that I had long noticed in an inchoate way formulated itself clearly in my mind. It was this: A century ago, there would have been one clothes shop for every hundred well-dressed ...
Last week an everyday group of anti-gun nuts called Everytown published data that claimed there have been 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook. Most of us went, "No there haven"t," because we"ve only read about ...
As the professional golf season crests this week at the U.S. Open, it's worth noting that the game, while still growing in popularity among the robber barons of ex-communist countries like China and Russia, has been in ...