Permanent Devolution
Scientific advances spur social mutations as surely as ergo prompters hoc. Sometimes the connection is irrefutable, however, if slightly askew. Air conditioning, for example, killed the Catskills. Why decamp to the mountains ...
Scientific advances spur social mutations as surely as ergo prompters hoc. Sometimes the connection is irrefutable, however, if slightly askew. Air conditioning, for example, killed the Catskills. Why decamp to the mountains ...
It all seemed so deliberate. According to court documents, on May 31 two twelve-year-old Wisconsin girls led a female classmate into the woods and stabbed her 19 times, leaving her for dead. Under police examination, the pair ...
Last week in the Bagel, and then London here I come. As I write, hundreds of thousands of Jews are marching up 5th Avenue for “Salute to Israel Day.” They have been marching for close to six hours and although not as ...
Recently I read an interview with the President of Niger, the francophone country to the north of Nigeria, about Boko Haram, the Islamist group that kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian girls and threatened to sell them into some ...
New York—Here’s a question for you loyal readers: If a fellow asks his wife to cook him a hearty meal of goat meat and she serves lentils instead, is he within his rights to beat her to death with a stick, as a New Yorker ...
Regardless of what dog you have in the Ukrainian turmoil, it is clear that Putin's plan is crude, transparent, and guaranteed to anger nearly everyone. Does anyone really believe that these "Ukrainian separatists" are ...
When I arrived in the city of Maiduguri nearly thirty years ago, everyone was away at the public executions. It was a ghost town until the spectators returned as from a football match in which the home team had won a decisive ...
I don"t believe in racism, sexism, or homophobia. There, I said it. While all three are prevalent all over the world, I don"t think they exist here in the West. Of course, there is a kid in a schoolyard right now ...
Like many pundits opining upon French economist Thomas Piketty's new book about how the rich always get richer and something has to be done about it, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, I haven"t actually read it. But ...
Everyone loves a tyrant, provided he is far enough away or long enough ago. Tyrants are much more interesting than so-called democratic politicians, especially nowadays, when so many of the latter have done nothing with their ...
Last Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court decided by a 6-2 margin that the 2006 Michigan voter-initiated ban on racial preferences in college admission was constitutional. Superficially, the Schuette v. Coalition to Defend ...
I have no “guilty pleasures,” being long past caring what anyone thinks of my terminally middlebrow taste. No, I’ve outgrown Dali, don’t worry"although I won’t admit to just when"but even ...
GSTAAD—The American newspaper that prints only news it sees fit to poison good things with recently published an article that dared to ask, “The End of Snow?” “The planet has warmed 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit ...
The most recent moment of defining culture for the DC metropolis wasn"t the finagling over the nation's debt ceiling or the tug of war over restoring funding to military pensions. It was the premiere of a television show. ...