Never forget how stupid we were to allow misfits and lunatics from the Third World to settle in our ...
I don"t believe in racism, sexism, or homophobia. There, I said it. While all three are prevalent all over the world, I don"t think they exist here in the West. Of course, ...
Predictably, responses to veteran New York Times genetics reporter Nicholas Wade's new book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History are already starting to break ...
The world is too much with us, late and soon. Before long, it can begin to seem reasonable. I have my doubts. The usual always seems reasonable. For example, existence seems ...
Whether or not it was Julie Burchill who described Stephen Fry as "a stupid person's idea of a clever person," it's a finer quip than most of the labored ...
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For some of you younger readers the name Schmuel Gelbfisz will not ring a bell. Yet back in the 30s, Schmuel Gelbfisz’s identity was a dinner party quiz, and the one who guessed ...
Minoritarianism: five percent of the population imposing their standards on the other 95 ...
The Week's Most Treacherous, Lecherous, and Obstreperous Headlines PICKING AT SCABS IN NORTHERN IRELAND The Police Service of Northern Ireland arrested Sinn Féin president ...
The vicissitudes of getting old are linked to the mystical innocence of childhood as one daydreams the precious time away. I’m a daydreamer par excellence, and lately I’ve ...
It's been a strange couple of weeks here in the United States of ...
That was me last week. It was a doubleheader. Sunday the 20th I flew to Tucson for the "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conference at the university there. ...
"I WANT TO BELIEVE," announces The X-Files" Agent Mulder, although silently, via that austere poster on the wall of his dark basement FBI office. It's a declaration of ...
The Week's Most Steroidal, Negroidal, and Hemorrhoidal Headlines WHITE MEN, WRONG WORDS Two elderly white men got in trouble last week for making the sort of comments that ...
Yesterday a young woman who was unknown to me except at third hand died. She was the friend of a friend of my wife. Considering that I was personally unacquainted with her, and ...
NEW YORK — The poet was right, April is the cruelest month. We at the Spectator lost Clarissa Tan, my good friend Bob Geldof’s 25-year-old daughter Peaches died, and my oldest ...