If a runaway trolley were about to smash into a bus containing 100 trapped members of the Harlem Jazz Orchestra, would you push a wholly innocent man named Chip Ellsworth III onto ...
William Shatner missed his calling. It’s no secret that the Star Trek icon’s “acting” and “singing” make up a double-decker Dagwood sandwich ...
The Week’s Most Hellacious, Sebaceous, and Mendacious Headlines THE MOST UPTIGHT HALLOWEEN EVER This year’s All Hallow’s Eve brought with it yet another ...
Most people read to confirm their prejudices rather than to learn something new or change their minds. Moreover, they recall what confirms their opinions much better than they ...
The latest white supremacist outrage concerns shoppers, so far only in New York ...
Magill, R. Jay Jr. Sincerity: How a moral ideal born five hundred years ago inspired religious wars, modern art, hipster chic, and the curious notion that we all have something to ...
There was a fair amount of national media excitement this weekend over the news that Darrell Wallace, Jr. had won a NASCAR race. As a Southern Californian, my attention span for ...
The Week's Most Criminal, Subliminal, and Aboriginal Headlines TRIUMPH OF THE LEECHES According to recently released Census Bureau data, more Americans received means-tested ...
James Toback is a very intelligent screenwriter and director who discovered Harvey Keitel and also turned Mike Tyson into an actor of sorts, mostly playing Tyson. Toback relishes ...
I don't recall any of these fiascos leading to an uptick in the production of pink slips. That's not the government ...
You know the pendulum has swung too far to the left when you say, "There's nothing wrong with normal" and everyone goes crazy. I was on Huffington Post Live on Monday to ...
While grazing hither and yon around the glades of the Internet, I stumbled on the Reverend Al Sharpton, who was demanding reparations for slavery. He was against slavery, I ...
Cott, Jonathan. Susan Sontag: the Complete Rolling Stone Interview Yale University Press, 2013. 168pp. $26/£15.99 Has Sontag dated? Born in New York in 1933, she was strongly ...
Following up last week's rant about cant, kindly permit me a harangue about slang and the affliction of bad diction. Got that? Last week, the empty, insincere things we say; this ...
Is Texas about the best fate that a heavily Hispanicized America can hope for? In a future United States that won’t be able to generate all that much per-capita wealth, is ...
The Week’s Most Incredible, Inedible, and Regrettable Headlines POLITICS: GOVERNMENT REOPENS, RESUMES OVERSPENDING The federal government reopened for business last week ...