Gstaad—Jeremy Clarke has wiped me out again, for a change. His accounts of the high jinks on board the Spectator cruise had the mother of my children laughing out loud, ...
Westerners used to just barge into countries, take them over, and make them better. Before the British invaded, India was just a really hot homeless shelter. The U.K. left in 1947 ...
The Week's Most Dissonant, Insolent, and Ignorant Headlines ACTOR MATT DAMON CHASTISED FOR NOT REALIZING THAT HIS WHITENESS IS PROBLEMATIC Actor Matt Damon is best known for ...
There were only a few refugees still on the seafront when I arrived in Bodrum (Turkey), and there were even fewer of them by the time I left a number of days later. Where and how ...
Gstaad—it was the summer of 1953, in Greece. We spent two months together, had a platonic love affair, and then she got married and died soon after. She was older than me, but ...
When the Fiske half of my family immigrated to England, we weren"t exactly popular. We arrived at the coast in boats and disgorged en masse only to be met "with spear tips ...
"What kind of Buddhism is this, Otto?" In A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Kevin Kline's felonious "Otto""as stupid as he is sexy"preps for yet another ...
Perhaps my favorite mental pastime is studying the long, stupid, twisted arc of how social taboos develop. What’s especially fascinating to me is how what’s considered ...
The Week's Most Acidic, Hasidic, and Anti-Semitic Headlines EUROPE LOVES ITS NEW REFUGEES! As CNN and USA Today tell the story, the citizens of Europe erupted on Saturday in an ...
Without the benefit of hindsight I write this on Monday, the 7th—Serena Williams, according to some commentators the greatest woman who has ever graced this earth of ours, will ...
Last week, a 17-year-old boy in a wig and a skirt made national headlines by demanding to use the girls" restroom and locker room at his small-town Missouri high school. The ...
As you read this, far too many young Americans are getting ready for their first day (back) at college, the most expensive mistake of their lives (unless they are male, get ...
The Week's Most Abrasive, Persuasive, and Invasive Headlines LETTER FROM A KENTUCKY JAIL Kim Davis is the aggressively homely county clerk of Rowan, Kentucky who is currently in ...
The trouble with vandalism is that it is fun, especially for people of modest accomplishment. The urge to destroy, said Bakunin, Marx's anarchist contemporary, is also a ...
On board the M/SQueen Victoria: They remain engraved in my brain, like something out of a Greek tragedy, so beautiful, such legends, and then they were gone. I am referring, of ...
September means football, in high school, in prep school, and, of course, where it all began, in college. There is nothing that evokes F. Scott Fitzgerald times more than a crisp ...
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