Marijuana is the abortion of libertarians. Small-government types, left and right, are unwholesomely obsessed with legalizing weed. Amusingly, both groups tend to stereotype ...

The Week's Most Ruthless, Truthless, and Toothless Headlines TWO BLACK LOUISIANA COPS CHARGED WITH MURDER IN SHOOTING DEATH OF SIX-YEAR-OLD WHITE BOY According to the Washington ...

Last week I was irritated to receive an e-mail from the British Medical Journal asking me what I thought of its new format. What I thought of it was unprintable; and now that we ...

I have finally moved into my new flat, a jewel of a place in a pre–World War I Park Avenue building. The finishing touches won’t be finalized until Christmas 2016, as work is ...

What has the world come to when a Jew can"€™t exploit the Holocaust? And not just any Jew, but the prime minister of Israel. Oy gevalt! As most of the world knows by now, ...

My old friend Raymond Wolters, a professor of history at the U. of Delaware for 50 years, has come back from five months in the hospital waiting for his lung transplant to write ...

Nobody needs to tell me to boycott Quentin Tarantino. They"€™ll revoke my Gen-X card for this, but I"€™ve always disliked his movies"€”or, more precisely, the inexplicable ...

A friend of mine recently told me of his pal's ethical struggles during a visit to the formerly English nation of England. Names have been changed to protect the phobic: My ...

The Week's Most Fascinating, Lacerating, and Exasperating Headlines KILLING BABY HITLER Simply because The New York Times was, is, and always will be the most respected and ...

La Rochefoucauld said that it is easier to give good advice than to take it, to which he might have added that it is also easier to agree with good advice than to act on it. ...

July 4th is the day America celebrates liberty but Halloween is the opposite. It's the day we all get together and ask necrophiliacs what to do with fun's cadaver. These ghouls ...

When a San Francisco high school principal named Lena Van Haren withheld student-body election results last week due to a lack of black and Latino winners (the victorious ...

Last Tuesday night I was walking down a poorly lit Brooklyn street en route to meet a friend for dinner when suddenly I noticed a black male strolling alongside me. He wasn"€™t ...

The Week's Dumbest, Numbest, and Glummest Headlines BIBI ABSOLVES ADOLF Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who just so happens to be Jewish, sparked a thunderous outcry ...

As everyone knows, journalists tend to take themselves seriously, and American journalists in particular, very, very, very seriously. Dan Rather was such a man, and I use the past ...

I hadn"€™t checked in on alternative music (or whatever they"€™re calling it these days) and was disappointed to discover the Thought Police have taken over there, too. ...