The Week That Perished

The Week’s Dippiest, Drippiest, and Yippiest Headlines ANTIFA V. BLACKS Antifa (pronounced “an-TEE-fa”) is a group of psychopathically self-righteous masked pussies who live ...

Panjshir, Afghanistan

History Lessons

“History teaches us no lessons but we insist on trying to learn from it.” That’s the first sentence of a Spectator review of John Bew’s admirable biography of Clement ...

Margaret Osborne duPont

The Gender Racket

One of my many regrets is that when I was young and on the tennis circuit, I played as a man. I had a crush on Margaret Osborne duPont, an older player who won numerous Wimbledon ...

Peace Through Violence

When a diagnosed schizophrenic who’d been prescribed antipsychotic medicine plowed into a crowd of “peaceful protesters”—who were, in fact, illegally blocking a ...

Steve Bannon

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Curious, Spurious, and Injurious Headlines “GOY, BYE!”: BANNON RESIGNS Seen by many as the Trump Administration’s gin-blossomed face of anti-globalist ...

Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb

As Jacob Rees-Mogg said in a different context, a happy birthday at my age is a terminological inexactitude. I needed the birthday I had last week like a hole in the head, to coin ...

The Grand Illusion

My best books are the ones I haven’t written. They are not yet even in the larval stage, but I know them to be profound and original in content and perfect in form. I am very ...

University of Virginia, Charlottsville

Carved Upon the Landscape

Why the ever-increasing hatred for America’s past? You might think that, on the whole, American history is, relative to world history, fairly impressive and heartening. But ...

Kremlin, Moscow

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Historic, Euphoric, and Dysphoric Headlines IT’S OFFICIAL: DNC EMAILS WERE LEAKED, NOT HACKED With zero evidence but the sort of unblinking righteous fury ...

The Pain Principle

I hesitate, in this vale of tears, to bring before the public, however small it might be, my own personal travails, but at least I can claim to be an expert on them, insofar as I ...

Spetses, Greece

Dubious Knights and Ladies

Greece is jasmine, bougainvillea, mimosa, cypresses, olive trees, pines, oregano, and sage; rock, sand, wine, fruit, and the bluest and cleanest water in the Med. The Peloponnese ...

Hitler’s Survival

Robert Harris’ new novel, Munich, will be published in September. It’s too early to review it, but I’ve read a proof copy and can say it’s as intelligent and gripping as ...

“Morally Required Genocide”

Professor Mohammed Abed is a man with a message: Genocide has gotten a bum rap. Sure, genocide can be bad, but in a pinch, genocide might just be your best friend…especially ...

Baltimore, Maryland

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Weakest, Bleakest, and Meekest Headlines BALTIMORE TRIES TO MAKE MURDER ILLEGAL FOR ONE WEEKEND Two years ago, Baltimore’s mayor said she was giving rioters ...

The Pain Principle

I hesitate, in this vale of tears, to bring before the public, however small it might be, my own personal travails, but at least I can claim to be an expert on them, insofar as I ...

Greece Is the Word

I’ve stayed far away from the new barbarians with their choppers, tanklike cars, home theaters on board, and fridge-shaped superyachts that terrorize sea life. In fact, dolphins ...


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