Yacht Plot
“Invert your ensign and pretend to be Serbs.” Such is the advice currently offered by Greek port officials to Russian yachts en route to Turkey. The Aegean now plays host to an Olympian game of musical chairs. No one ...
“Invert your ensign and pretend to be Serbs.” Such is the advice currently offered by Greek port officials to Russian yachts en route to Turkey. The Aegean now plays host to an Olympian game of musical chairs. No one ...
In recent weeks, American college admissions departments sent out to high school student applicants millions of thick envelopes (good news) and thin envelopes (bad news). But finding out what colleges decided in aggregate is ...
Hollywood’s been Jewish from the get-go, but “racial loyalty” never trumped the bottom line. People who lose money for the bosses get canned, Jew or not. Similarly, Hollywood might be leftist in its racial politics, but ...
I wish I loved the Human Race; I wish I loved its silly face; I wish I liked the way it talks; I wish I liked the way it walks... —Sir Walter Raleigh (1861–1922) During the Second World War, there was a poster in British ...
We live in an age of serial expertise. First we were experts in climate change, whether or not we believed it was taking place, and consequently in energy policy. Then, with Covid, we became expert epidemiologists, though most ...
Comedy was on my mind last week, for three coincidental reasons. Reason No. 1: Jowly failed 1980s stand-up “comedian” Dana Gould called me a Holocaust denier. I was commenting in a Twitter thread about how Gould is the ...
The Week’s Most Shaking, Baking, and Spring-Breaking Headlines STAR TREK: THE NEXT DEFECATION Sci-fi has a long history of calling things wrong. Blade Runner predicted a 2019 L.A. with no Mexicans except Edward James Olmos. ...
My wife and I lingered too long over lunch and missed our train from Nîmes to Paris; not by very much, not by more than thirty seconds in fact, but here really was an illustration of that old saw, that a miss is as good as a ...
One of my favorite YouTube channels is called Fascinating Horror. It’s a British dude who narrates tales of little-known mass-casualty events over the centuries. I like the channel because occasionally he’ll dredge up an ...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s critically acclaimed Licorice Pizza is his response to Quentin Tarantino’s similarly nostalgic Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood. As you may recall, I was a huge homer for Tarantino’s 2019 movie set ...
NEW YORK—I’ve never met anyone named Othello, certainly not in Venice nor in Cyprus, but perhaps there are men by that name in Africa. The only one referred to as Othello, but always behind his back, was the greatest of ...
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: ...
The Week’s Most Muttering, Fluttering, and Stuttering Headlines FOLLY OF THE DOLLS The culture wars giveth, the culture wars taketh away...doll penises. In 1978, TV producer Norman Lear decided to dangle some “outrage ...
It has stepped into the pop culture spotlight via the HBO hit Succession, a hit job on the very rich and powerful produced by the very rich and much more powerful Adam McKay (The Big Short). McKay started off by doing a lot of ...