The Week's Most Baneful, Painful, and Disdainful Headlines U.S. GAMBLES $6 TRILLION ON IRAQ, LOSES The United States military spent eight years tearing Iraq to pieces in order to ...
Walking through Amsterdam recently, a paradox that I had long noticed in an inchoate way formulated itself clearly in my mind. It was this: A century ago, there would have been ...
We live in a peculiar age, a span of history in which the most obvious and commonplace observations about human nature may not be spoken ...
Gstaad—A slight bump at 30,000 feet concentrates the mind, as the good Dr. Johnson said about an appointment with the gallows. Halfway over the Atlantic and lost in a fantasy, I ...
Last week an everyday group of anti-gun nuts called Everytown published data that claimed there have been 74 school shootings since Sandy Hook. Most of us went, "No there ...
It is so easy to gull the pack, the herd. It just takes a bit of theater. A brass band on the Fourth of July, flags whipping in the wind, young soldiers marching down Main Street, ...
I"ll admit I went to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum with a bad attitude. Why are we memorializing a humiliation? Two of our proudest buildings were leveled and some 3,000 of ...
As the professional golf season crests this week at the U.S. Open, it's worth noting that the game, while still growing in popularity among the robber barons of ex-communist ...
Richard Dawkins must be one execrable speck of a man. The outspoken atheist never tires of picking on the pious, slamming them as ignorant fools beholden to anachronistic beliefs. ...
Scientific advances spur social mutations as surely as ergo prompters hoc. Sometimes the connection is irrefutable, however, if slightly askew. Air conditioning, for example, ...
It all seemed so deliberate. According to court documents, on May 31 two twelve-year-old Wisconsin girls led a female classmate into the woods and stabbed her 19 times, leaving ...
The Week's Most Contrarian, Barbarian, and Proletarian Headlines BIG BROTHER's FIRST TWEET The Central Intelligence Agency"which applies its intelligence in a constructive ...
Nothing sensible ever gets done by the federal ...
The New York Times" first female executive editor was recently canned after only three years on the job, and geniuses from Gawker to New Republic instantly assumed it was ...
I believe modern society would be far saner and healthier if it worshiped Groucho Marx rather than Karl Marx, but as with most things, I find myself in a small and persecuted ...
The Week's Most Despotic, Chaotic, and Psychotic Headlines WHITE COP WINS DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT A federal jury has awarded a white police lieutenant from Long Island $1.35 ...
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