How do you feel about Muslims? Not good, eh? They"re different from you and me. They"re hostile, right? The enemy within? Scary. Thinking about Islam, I think also about ...
Such are the epochal times we"re living in that even timeworn truisms are at risk of obsolescence. Take "Is the Pope Catholic?" Those of a certain age may prefer ...
The Week's Most Terse, Adverse, and Perverse Headlines HARLEM PASTOR BRINGS NEW MEANING TO THE TERM “FLAMING HOMOSEXUAL” Pastor James David Manning of Harlem’s ...
Marion, Baroness Lambert, was hit and killed by a London bus last month while shopping on Oxford Street, a cruel irony if there ever was one. “At least a Bentley,” was the way ...
The Week’s Most Vile, Mercantile, and Senile Headlines ((((COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM ONLINE))) The Anti-Defamation League is a wonderful and righteous organization that ...
Every year Joseph Haydn comes for a few days to the town in which I live when I"m in England. For about five days there are two concerts daily, and for me it is a great luxury ...
Shelter Island—Nestled in the Long Island Sound, ten minutes by ferryboat from Sag Harbor and a good thirty from the horrible Hamptons, their Porches, their mega-mansions, and ...
The first vegan I ever met was a straight-edge Christian anarchist from England who was crashing with my roommates and me under circumstances that probably weren"t that clear ...
Muhammad Ali, widely regarded as the world’s most famous man, died Friday at age 74. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, he was a titan both as a boxer and a provocateur. Because ...
The Week's Most Sectarian, Contrarian, and Barbarian Headlines GORILLA LIVES MATTER America in 2016 is a place where male gorillas who are trapped living in urban areas can be ...
Write about things you really know, was the advice Papa Hemingway offered wannabe writers, so here goes: The French Open is still on, Wimbledon is coming up, and I’ve just read ...
The world is a dangerous place whose inhabitation always ends in death. Is it because or in spite of this that we enjoy scaring ourselves with imaginary dangers? We thrill at ...
Things have never been grimmer. Wall Street wolves have become billionaires while rigging the system, rats like William Kristol are showboating on television and spreading lies ...
When I was a small boy I could name all of boxing's world champions, and I guess that anyone who followed the sport could do likewise. This was back in the immediate postwar ...
Emperor of the North, the classic 1973 film directed by Robert Aldrich, details the dysfunctional relationship between train-hopping hobos and the railroad men who kill them. It's ...
A horrifyingly racist Chinese detergent commercial threatens to drive even deeper wedges between the black and Asian communities, further impeding their righteous mission of ...