Economic historian Gregory Clark, a Glaswegian now at UC Davis, has been extending a main channel of British science into the 21st Century. His new book, The Son Also Rises: ...
So I guess I finally have to write about Bruce Jenner. Tellingly, when I first typed that sentence, instead of "Bruce," I wrote "Kris." That's the name of ...
TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains bushels and bales of foul language. It also quotes passages that are so hate-filled, they make Adolf Hitler look like Doris Day. As a ...
The Week's Most Momentous, Horrendous, and Portentous Headlines THE WORLD's MOST HOMOPHOBIC WEB BROWSER The Pink Hydra has slain another Web titan. Although Brendan Eich is the ...
Patriotic effusions, whosever they may be, seldom please citizens of other nations, because they are generally so self-congratulatory; and self-congratulation, which is no doubt ...
New York—Back to the mythic city, dreamed into existence by the movies long ago and instantly memorable, a visually stunning place built for action and adventure, a city of ...
When I hear the words "major international effort" the thing I hear right after is the sound of money sluicing from the pockets of middle-class taxpayers in prosperous countries ...
On Monday, we learned of a DuPont heir who has been given nothing but parole for raping his daughter, because the judge felt he wouldn"t "fare well" in prison. It's ...
Back in the dear old 1950s, when Western Civilization reached its zenith, Edward R. Murrow ran a regular radio spot titled This I Believe, to which persons both eminent and ...
Darren Aronofsky's Noah accomplishes what any great myth should: it communicates moral truths through a fantasy. Mankind has destroyed the Creator's creation, and so Man must be ...
At the nexus of Anton LaVey and Robert Anton Wilson lies Trevor Blake. In Confessions of a Failed Egoist and Other Essays, Blake combines The Doctor's brand of deadpan dark ...
As a teenager trolling for role models, I latched onto all the female performers in the punk and New Wave camps: Nina Hagen, The Slits, Siouxsie Sioux"even, God help me, Lene ...
The Week's Most Fallacious, Vexatious, and Ostentatious Headlines THE NOBLE CAMPAIGN TO FIGHT (SPECIFIC FORMS OF) RACIAL STEREOTYPING Who would have thought that you could take ...
Nothing is important or unimportant, but thinking makes it so. Nevertheless, other people's priorities infuriate us: We think them fools for worrying over trifles, while they ...
Harry Truman purchased his own postage stamps. Calvin Coolidge audited the books for the White House kitchen. That's small-"r" republican ...
In 1974, a daredevil walked across a tightrope that connected the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. It was called “the artistic crime of the century.” The DA ...
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