Lisa

In Praise of the Benjamin Button Babes

To be clear: The ideal female mate is young. You"€™re going to want three kids, and to do that you really need to get going by 25. My wife had our first in her early 30s and at ...

Leftist Legal Fictions and the Atheists Who Love Them

I"€™ve never had much use for smug, arrogant leftist atheists like Bill Maher, Ricky Gervais, or Seth MacFarlane, whose smarmy "€œaren"€™t we ever-so-clever"€ attitude I ...

Shame or Something Like It

Meet Stephanie Guthrie. (Serious question: Why DO they all look alike?) In 2012, Guthrie learned of a crude videogame in which players punched an image of bothersome feminist ...

Jim Goad

When Is Cultural Appropriation Inappropriate?

As a humble and dedicated yoga bro in training, my already easily bruised feelings were grievously harmed recently upon learning that what I believed was my benignly tolerant ...

Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Conspicuous, Ubiquitous, and Ridiculous Headlines TO KILL A FINCH For decades, true believers in the holy cause of anti-racism have venerated the unrealistically ...

Adios, Radio Derb!

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Pistols at Dawn?

There is an English writer who is going around telling all and sundry that I made a pass at his wife. Now, Englishmen are known not to get too excited about such matters, but in ...

Was the Civil Rights Movement Really Necessary?

"€œBut then there"€™d be no story."€ That was my mother's singsong refrain whenever I"€™d complain that some film we were watching made no sense. To this day, my ...

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Painful, Baneful, and Shameful Headlines CALIFORNIA: NOW MORE LATINO THAN WHITE New figures released by the Census Bureau reveal that as of July 1 of last year, ...

White Women Win

The U.S. women's soccer team is whiter than a Bernie Sanders campaign ...

St. James's Park, London

London Fog

Wow, what a week. London may be bad for one’s health, but it sure makes it fun on the way to where we’re all going. I’m determined not to mention Greece—too much has been ...

If Drugs Could Kill

After combing through the data for hours, academics have discovered the cause of the mass shooting in Charleston. Turns out it was comedian Amy Schumer’s fault. You see, she ...

Quarterly Potpourri

Advice to investors. In last week's column "€œDon"€™t Sup With a FUP"€ I offered a golden nugget of life advice to the younger generation: Avoid fucked-up people. Now ...

Shock Value

Courtney Love was right, and she was robbed. Thirty years ago, while still an unknown, she campaigned relentlessly to win the role she quite reasonably believed she was born to ...

George Takei

Mr. Sulu v. Uncle Tom

I’ve never seen a Star Trek movie and I"€™ve only seen one episode of the original TV series"€”the one with the Tribbles. Otherwise, the evidence leads me to suspect ...

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Daring, Uncaring, and Overbearing Headlines “RENT A JEW” PROGRAM LAUNCHED IN GERMANY Do you have any Jewish friends? If not, have you ever considered ...


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