The mode of transmission of the disease kuru was established by the American virologist D. Carleton Gajdusek, who won the Nobel Prize for this work. Kuru was a fatal ...

Steeltown was headbanger heaven. Heavy metal devotees stomped the streets of my hometown in their mustard-yellow Kodiak boots, fingering their long, ratty hair behind their ears ...

Who was it who said that behind every great fortune lies a great crime? The answer is a Frenchman by the name of Balzac, known as a pretty good novelist in his time. Well, is ...

This is a story of love, hate, interracial romance, journalistic malpractice, and anti-Semitic bomb hoaxes. It involves a young black man named Juan, whose mother named him that ...

The Week's Most Cynical, Inimical, and Rabbinical Headlines PRESS COVERAGE OF TRUMP: 88% HOSTILE Because President Donald J. Trump is a realistic and intelligent man, he despises ...

Foolishness springs eternal. And this is just as well for us journalists, because it gives us such easy targets when we have deadlines to meet and no time to think, which is most ...

GSTAAD—Back in the good old days a funicular used to take skiers up, bucking all the way and at times stopping when the snowdrifts got too deep across the track. We used to wax ...

History doesn"€™t repeat itself. Nevertheless, comparisons between the present and the past may be helpful"€”so long, at least, as one recognizes that circumstances are ...

There was something deeply satisfying about watching Sunday's Academy Awards show end in unmitigated disaster. It was the perfect capper to a very bad year for our beloved ...

White men have been getting a bad rap lately. We"€™re complete idiots in commercials and on TV in general. Other races and genders roll their eyes at us and say things such as ...

Get Out, a remarkably racist kill-the-white-people horror movie that makes Django Unchained seem like My Dinner With Andre, is the box office and critical smash of the ...

Did you have that stupid idea in high school too? That on prom night or graduation, you and your two or three hippie or punk or goth friends (the only ones you had) would go, all ...

OMAHA, Neb."€”Several years back, two Hell's Angels showed up in Dallas to give me an award. It was a gold-plated ball-peen hammer mounted on wood, which was a reference to the ...

The Week's Most Melodious, Odious, and Incommodious Headlines LE PEN REFUSES TO WEAR HEADSCARF In a bold "€™n"€™ brilliant act of political theater that will undoubtedly draw ...

In one of the Platonic dialogues, the Charmides, the subject is the nature of temperance. No final definition is arrived at, but that does not mean that the word has no meaning or ...

From my chalet high up above the village, I look up at the immense mountain range of the glistening Alps and my spirit soars. Even youthful memories receding into sepia cannot ...