My goddaughter was Face Timing with her grandfather the other day and there was something eerily magical about the way he spoke to her. He's been having a hard time recently. ...
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Having already confessed to being a reader of middlebrow fiction, I get occasional emails from readers asking for recommendations. Well, there's no disputing matters of ...
Phantom Terror, by Adam Zamoyski (Basic Books, 2015). Born in America and raised in Britain, Adam Zamoyski is not a tenured university professor devoted to obscure subjects that ...
"Blazing Saddles could never get made today." We all know how virulent political correctness has become. In fact, to cite another tedious cliché, it's been "going ...
The Week's Most Temperamental, Detrimental, and Occidental Headlines BRUCE GENDER Last Friday night, nearly 40 years after establishing himself as the world's greatest athlete by ...
While in Dublin recently I read an article in the newspaper about the Greek crisis. It was in the Irish Times and was very serious. The author, the well-known economic journalist ...
Most people, including most of the people paid to write public commentary, are innumerate; and that makes much of what they say ...
A recent column in the FT had me mad as hell and not about to take it any more. The writer, Simon Kuper, calls Vienna a backwater, a bit like calling the Queen a busted flush ...
Every time I think the insanity meter on the political correctness machine has finally gone as far as it can go, the needle plunges deeper into the red. Last year, we assumed it ...
Three thousand miles from the fighting in Syria I was sat with Pakistanis who definitely wouldn’t be giving up their lives here in London for Raqqa. They fit somewhere ...
In his New York Times column "Checking Charlie Hebdo's Privilege," Ross Douthat took on the reigning orthodoxy about how we should only "punch up" at the more ...
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One of those self important, so called pundits once asked Norman Mailer if fascism was coming to America. The pompous one had once worked for Time magazine, so Norman answered him ...
Right after I hit "send" on my second last column " the one about being short " I kicked myself (as best I could with these damn stubby legs) for forgetting to ...
The Week's Most Maddening, Saddening, and Fattening Headlines THOSE DARNED GAYS AND THEIR DAMNED CAKES In what is unquestionably the most urgent and compelling civil-rights issue ...
Nothing human is alien to me, I understand nothing that is human: I cannot quite make up my mind which describes my situation the better. But certainly one of the things that I do ...
We live in such an unromantic ...
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