The Week That Perished
The Week’s Most Herky, Jerky, and Stuffed-With-Turkey Headlines MASKS SAVE LIVES (BECAUSE WE’LL KILL YOU IF YOU DON’T WEAR ONE) There’s an old vaudeville routine about a man who walks by a peddler. The peddler offers ...
The Week’s Most Herky, Jerky, and Stuffed-With-Turkey Headlines MASKS SAVE LIVES (BECAUSE WE’LL KILL YOU IF YOU DON’T WEAR ONE) There’s an old vaudeville routine about a man who walks by a peddler. The peddler offers ...
Why such a sourpuss, Joy-Ann? On the whole, life and MSNBC are treating you pretty well. And yet, over the last 10 years, you have complained pretty much nonstop about how badly you, and "people who look like [you]," are ...
This past week’s events in Wisconsin’s Kenosha and Waukesha offer useful perspectives on a recent clash between pundits Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan V. Last of The Bulwark over the accuracy of the news media. Sullivan ...
Deadlines are an unforgiving mistress. Every now and then I’ll see something right after my column posts that makes me regret not having been able to include it. For example, last month, in my piece about the manufactured ...
The Week’s Most Jittery, Glittery, and Skittery Headlines SESAME STREET’S SLIPPERY SLOPE “The eyes are the window to the soul.” No two people agree on where that phrase originated. Some say the Bible, others say the ...
How did Shakespeare use the word “race”? During the current Great Awokening, the Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th centuries has increasingly come under attack, both on general principles (Who needs reason when you ...
Over the years I’ve devoted a lot of text in this column to the “perpetrators” of America’s decline. The “intellectuals,” the billionaire donors, the think-tankers. But it’s important to remember that there’s ...
The Week’s Most Classified, Sassified, and Gassified Headlines JUMPIN’ JOE FLASH, IT’S A GAS GAS GAS! Last week’s 2021 U.N. Climate Change Conference was held in Glasgow, but President Biden made it Gasgow. According ...
New York City has always been considered something of an exception to the rest of the country. But even by that definition a recent decision by the city council to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from its meeting chamber ...
A seldom-explained problem slowing the Democrats’ march to a permanent one-party state is that while their electoral grand strategy is impressively opportunistic, sleazy, and dangerous to the country, Democrats don’t like ...
Last week was a good one, so it’s kind of dickish to make fun, but it’s really amusing how quickly some of you went from, in 2016, “We’re gonna get tired of winning,” to nervously awaiting the Youngkin/McAuliffe ...
The Week’s Most Abjectioning, Electioning, and Insurrectioning Headlines CUNNING STUNTS Last week’s election provided many fine opportunities for schadenfreude. Ibram X. Kendi might have to change his name again because ...
The British government has managed to spend approximately $50 billion on a system for testing and tracing cases of COVID-19. So far, the average citizen has been tested five times. Yet mysteriously, the British mortality rate ...
With the CDC estimating last month that drug overdose deaths rose over 30 percent in the first twelve months of the pandemic to nearly 100,000, Sam Quinones’ outstanding new sequel to his award-winning 2015 book Dreamland: ...