I slept through the only riot I was ever sent to cover as a reporter. Having traveled a long way I was very tired, and by the time I woke the riot was almost over. Still, I was ...
The Week's Most Pathetic, Emetic, and Herpetic Headlines THE ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS ANOTHER HEAD The 9/11 attacks were possibly the most striking and well-orchestrated act of ...
Gstaad—In this freewheeling Swiss village of the 1950s, the unconventional was the norm, monumental drinking commonplace, but the manners of the players were always impeccable. ...
Being neither rocket-scientist material nor chipper by temperament, I have never been able to pile up the tower of steaming hubris it would take to convince myself that the world ...
We all, I suppose, live in a tiny world of our own construction, whose size and character depends upon what interests us. I realized the other day just how peculiar my own little ...
Porto Cheli—Nothing is moving, not a twig nor a leaf, and I find myself missing the cows, the mountains, and the bad weather. The sun has become the enemy, a merciless foe who ...
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The Week's Most Eugenic, Schizophrenic, and Hallucinogenic Headlines TRAYVON AND RODNEY: THE SEQUEL Our post-racial nation has found its new Trayvon Martin"albeit one bigger, ...
There is only one real political question: Are people equal or not? All political distinctions"whether left or right, individualistic or collectivist, libertarian or ...
"Are you ready for life changes?" the advertisement that came through the Internet asked me. In general, the answer is "No, I am not ready." I don"t like ...
The Week's Most Erratic, Dramatic, and Traumatic Headlines O-BOMBING IRAQ In 2008, Barack Hussein Obama ascended to the US presidency on chocolate butterfly wings not solely due ...
Porto Cheli—I have been thinking about my children and my own strange boyhood as I gaze up at the clear blue skies of summer. Summers lasted an eternity back then, and by the ...
You know that one time a month when you"re arguing with a lady friend and she says something that makes your neck recoil in confusion? You"ll stop the fight for a second ...
Lately I"ve been hearing more and more dribs and drabs of the depressing controversy over whether literature has any empire left over pop culture. Well, that depends on what ...
A couple of weeks ago I talked about how, in the age of political hypercorrectness, satire is now superfluous. Remember this when I tell you about the Hedonistic Imperative, a ...
August has been turning into Black Movie Month. This year, Tate Taylor, the white guy from Mississippi who directed August 2011's The Help, is back with a stylized James Brown ...
The Germans may or may not have preferred to march in the shade, but the French proclivity for lolling topless in the sun is no chauvinistic joke. Right after the first female ...
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