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An opinion journalist is expected to take a stand on newsy issues, even ones he doesn"t much care about. This is especially so when the issue relates to the British Isles and ...
When I read about Joan Rivers" death, my eyes welled up with stinging tears. Not because she"d died (come on: she was 81) but in anticipation of the mouthwatering ...
Imagine for a moment that you are an intelligent and self-sufficient Martian living in a plush, temperature-controlled trailer home somewhere amid the vast frozen plains of that ...
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The other day I behaved badly for once: not very badly (I should hardly have confessed to that), but still worse than I like to think that I normally behave. It was in a busy ...
Ibiza—This island is the Spanish equivalent of the Greek sex rock of Mykonos, except its waters are murkier, its nightclubs and restaurants far more expensive, but its hookers ...
Of course persons of feeling or religious sensibility should give what they can, but how is this government ...
The Week's Most Monumental, Detrimental, and Excremental Headlines NAKED FEMALE CELEBS LEAK FROM THE CLOUD Female Hollywood celebrities and the pissants who worship them as ...
Returning recently to France from Germany, where I had given a talk on the ideological roots of ugliness (which might seem to some a rather peculiar and even inexistent subject), ...
...two political science professors has found that ordinary Americans have virtually no impact whatsoever on the making of national policy in our ...
The Derbs"Mr., Mrs., and Missy"spent two weeks in Alaska. Here are some random observations. Positively the last family vacation. Most people who visit Alaska nowadays ...
The old "men don"t read fiction" saw is making the rounds of the publishing industry again. It's more a self-fulfilling prophecy than a valid judgment against the ...
"Exotic dancers. They"re not exotic, and they"re not dancers," explains comedian Ellen Cleghorne here. "It's like calling a pedophile an "exotic ...
The Week's Most Bureaucratic, Problematic, and Symptomatic Headlines FEDS TO MONITOR ONLINE "HATE SPEECH" If you ever doubted that the concept of "hate speech" ...
A society's understanding of history is shaped not so much by what they"re told, but by what is hidden from them. After a white police officer shot and killed the undeniably ...