I used to think that no one would ever again smell like my grandmother: that is to say, of naphthalene mothballs. She had them even in her handbag in case a moth was lurking ...

This is about life up high. A Brit rapscallion and mischief-maker gossip columnist, Peter McKay, recently diverted from type and wrote about how great it is to pilot a plane. ...

But don't you dare call it "privilege." In this racist society of ours, only white people have ...

History is full of strange folds, wrinkles, and repetitions.  Consider for example the following true story. There was once a great empire of the despotic-bureaucratic sort. It ...

October 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of the most hated book in the history of the social sciences, the 845-page The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class ...

Asexuality: It's not just for plants anymore. Nay, it is now a designated sexual identity for humans who aren"€™t horny. But it is much more than merely an individual identity. ...

The Week's Most Mordant, Discordant, and Important Headlines RESIGNATION OF A COWARD After nearly six years as the nation's first black Attorney General"€”during which time he ...

Holder's a loathsome creep all right, but the worst thing is that he's not terrifically ...

Athens—This grimy, semi-Levantine, ancient city has its beauty spots, with childhood memories indelibly attached. A turn of the century apartment building, across the street ...

When you take into account the entire world, feminists have a point about 80% of the time. The other 20% is where things get unreasonable, especially here in America. If feminism ...

A new study on world population trends came out last week from the University of Washington in Seattle. If you"€™re one of those people who worry about an overpopulated world, ...

I"€™m sometimes accused of having created a vast secret corpus of sinister ideas that I keep carefully hidden away from the millions of words I"€™ve published. I"€™ve ...

I quit smoking around 10 years after I quit drinking, but I miss smoking much more, and it was far harder to give up. Especially since, right after my last cigarette, I met my ...

The Week's Most Bodacious, Perspicacious, and Trepidatious Headlines SORE WINNERS IN GLASGOW By a margin of 55-45, Scottish voters elected on Thursday to remain in the United ...

Efes beer, the Turkish lager, was the nearest until recently that I had come to Ephesus, unless you count St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, which I read more in a spirit of ...

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