Is That a Fact?

When I was young and writing history essays, I kept a store of useful quotations in my head, somebody else's words being a neat or at least easy way of kicking off. Likewise when ...

Milo Yiannopoulos

Fire With Fire: Milo’s Dangerous Brand

In the lead-up to the Fahrenheit 451 reenactment planned for Milo Yiannopoulos"€™ upcoming book Dangerous, Buzzfeed and its coterie ran pieces on the incendiary's previous ...

Mary Tyler Moore

I Hate Spunk

"€œShe made a show about how single career women could still have fulfilling lives, with the help of the powerful TV executive she was married to."€ My Facebook friend Tom ...

A Brief History of the Redneck

KANSAS CITY, Mo."€”Last week, when I outed myself as an Angry White Man, I got some of that dreaded "€œnativist"€ fan mail. (Is it my imagination or has the word ...

Shia LeBoeuf

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Benign, Anodyne, and Asinine Headlines NEW PRESIDENT SPROUTS WINGS AND SOARS In his first week as President of These Here United States, Our Glorious Leader ...

Humble Pie in Short Supply

On 30 March, 1933, the great German recorder of daily life under the Third Reich, Victor Klemperer, noticed a balloon in a toy shop inscribed with a swastika. In my newspaper on ...

Angelina Jolie

Everything’s Hunky-Dory

GSTAAD—The snows came tumbling down just as the camel drivers headed back to the Gulf. In fact, they never saw the white outdoor stuff. And a good thing it was, too. The outdoor ...

Los Angeles, CA

The Right’s Phantom Menace

When it comes to how the right should deal with Hollywood leftism, Andrew Breitbart, much as he did on the night of his passing, took the long way home. He advocated a complex ...

Tribal Counsel

Remember the supermarket scene near the end of the Iraq War movie The Hurt Locker? Jeremy Renner plays an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician. After countless telephoto shots ...

Thanks for Nothing, Bitches

Women rarely fail to let me down. There's a Roz Chast cartoon showing one lady shouting at another: "€œThe price of Kleenex WAS SO 47 cents in 1963!"€ That sentence ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Sportive, Supportive, and Abortive Headlines WOMEN MARCH ON WASHINGTON, PRETENDING THEY DON"€™T HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS On Friday, January 20, 2017, Donald ...

Heroes, Not Peacocks

ATHENS—I can only sardonically ask whether it was worth it. To be executed after unspeakable torture without giving anything away—and for what? Fat, greedy, avaricious, and ...

Ernest Hemingway

The Importance of Being Ernest

Like many who had read, enjoyed, and admired Hemingway, I read A.E. Hotchner's memoir Papa Hemingway soon after it came out. That would have been four or five years after ...

We”€™ve Got the Biggest Balls of Them All

I"€™m headed to Deploraball tonight! It's a gala event where Trump supporters will be dressed to the nines while calmly drinking and dancing together at a venue they paid for ...

Frank Sinatra

Ladies and Gentlemen…President Sinatra

Frank Sinatra's Secret Service code name was "€œNapoleon."€ Before you can finish asking, "€œWhy did he need one?"€ you"€™ll remember: JFK was practically a member ...

Donald Trump

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Obsructionist, Reductionist, and Deconstructionist Headlines TRUMP BITCH-SLAPS MEDIA AT PRESS CONFERENCE Donald Julius Caesar Trump"€”who becomes President of ...


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