The musical biopic A Complete Unknown competently depicts the most famous of the heel turns Bob Dylan has amused himself with over his long career: how he stabbed in the back his purist leftist folk music fans by going to their 1965 Newport Folk Festival and playing “Like a Rolling Stone” loud, fatally wounding the folk craze. “Heel turn” is a professional wrestling term for when the audience’s hero, the “face,” suddenly turns into the villain, the “heel.” The influence of professional wrestling on this Nobel laureate in Literature with his august standing as the voice of ...
This was gonna be my end-of-the-year wrap-up (it was written and proofed and everything), but the Vivek “mediocre culture” thing got me fired up, so I’ll run the New Year’s column next ...
You know the tiny little sparkly-winged angel you have sitting anally impaled on the top of your Christmas tree? She’s dressed all in white, isn’t she? So have you ever considered the sheer ...
'Tis the season for giving. For me, that mostly means supporting charities. One organization I donate to is SSP, Student Sponsor Partners, a nonprofit that gives scholarships to ...
Redistribution of wealth is in full swing in the U.K. under Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, but a lesser-known project is the redistribution of organs. I don’t mean church ...
Ah, my annual Christmas column, where I get to write about anything that tickles my fancy. So about the New Avengers “Angels of Death” episode... Okay, okay, sorry. I’ve ...
Takimag recently reported on a Bronx-based so-called “Racial Justice Center” that released a handy guide for how to racially ruin Christmas by going around asking ...
Flies are like sheep: They seem to follow their leader, without it being clear which of them is their leader. This was my conclusion from watching flies approaching the flypaper I ...
If you wanted proof that men are now marginalized, look no further than a question tabled for discussion at next year’s annual U.K. conference of Alcoholics Anonymous. “Would ...
It was nice to see Crystal Mangum, victim of the nonexistent gang rape by Duke lacrosse players in 2006, admit last week that it was all a fake-out. Many of you were happy, though ...
I don’t want to come off as lacking empathy, even though I do indeed lack empathy. The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is reassuring. Not because he ...
If you saw a large group of men running toward you, dressed in tight Lycra bearing the words “QUEER RUNNING CLUB,” what would you do? Personally, I’d start running ...
When I saw video clips of the joyful toppling of statues of Bashar al-Assad, as well as the tearing from walls of his ubiquitous portrait, I wondered what it must be like to be a ...
Do charities for older people help older people, or do they target older people for donations, and for other political reasons? Since my mother was diagnosed with dementia, my ...
A fascinating recent example of what I call cops retreating to the doughnut shop began in July 2023 when the New Jersey State Police largely stopped issuing traffic tickets for ...
“Euthan-Asia?” asks the traditional cartoon comedy moron. “Where’s that?” Today the honest answer could be given “It’s in Great Britain.” The nation’s ...
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