Slavoj Žižek, the Ideal Fraud

One stumbles across such interesting things on the Internet. For example, while browsing the Guardian newspaper's website today I alighted on a short video by the Slovenian ...

That’s Rape in Sweden!

I think we should admit that co-education is a ...

A Dearth of Characters

Except for sickness in one’s family or the loss of a life, is there anything sadder than to see a bookstore shut its doors? I used to live in a street that had three bookstores ...

University of Virginia

A Rape Hoax for Book Lovers

Numerous identity politics uproars, such as Ferguson, Trayvon, and Duke Lacrosse, have turned out to be humiliating fiascos for the national press when all the facts are finally ...

Since When Are Egyptians Not White?

I don"€™t care what color the ancient Egyptians were, but then again, I"€™m not an Afrocentrist. But if one day in the distant future after a series of debilitating strokes I ...

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Immediate, Expedient, and Disobedient Headlines RUMOR SPREADS THROUGH FERGUSON: BLACK LIVES MATTER One of the mythical linchpins propping up the megatons of ...

Washington Square Park, New York

Elegance Is Not a Sin

The leaves are falling nonstop, like names dropped in Hollywood, and it has suddenly turned colder than the look I got from a very pretty girl in a downtown restaurant. I had gone ...

Riot Fatigue

I guess they were lucky it was Thanksgiving, not Martin Luther King ...

Ezra Levant Takes on the Thought Police

Ezra Levant is a journalist and TV host who is primarily known for fighting the totalitarianism and corruption of various human rights commissions. He's one of the few with the ...

Learning Not to Love

Making fun of millennials is all kinds of fish-in-a-barrel fun. Their creepy, dehumanized fixation on their smartphones reminds me of lab rats, pushing the Tweet button to light ...

Teaching Men to Bleed

Well before I wrote these weekly screeds, I was"€”God help us"€”a poet. One of some tiny renown, in fact. Luckily for everyone, poetry, like smoking and drinking, is among ...

Am I Thankful This Thanksgiving? Not Entirely

Nearly five hundred years ago, as the story goes, those sexually repressed Pilgrims"€”wearing tight religious apparel that restricted crucial blood flow to their genital ...

President Barack Obama

The Week That Perished

The Week's Most Vexed, Hexed, and Oversexed Headlines OBAMNESTY UNCHAINED Last Thursday evening in a live telecast from the White House, our one and only favorite current ...

Plotting Unlikely Wonders

Someone must have noticed that I waste a lot of my time, because I received today, through the Internet, an offer of a new method of something called personal time management. ...

Bum’s the Word

White supremacy, in the sense of a society in which key decisions are made by white Europeans, is one of the better arrangements History has come up ...

Carolina Herrera

A Special Snobbery

To the grand Herrera house on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for lunch in honor of Lord and Lady Linley. David Linley is over here to receive an award for his designs, which ...


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