Structured around the dismantling of the profitable notion pushed by self-help seers such as Malcolm Gladwell that 10,000 hours of monomaniacal practice is the secret of success, ...
The Week’s Most Insane, Profane, and Inhumane Headlines THE DELUSION THAT MISTOOK ITSELF FOR A DREAM Commemorating the half-century since MLK’s 1963 March on ...
There's been a minor outbreak of random killings by ...
Just before I left for the Greek islands I went to dinner at Eugenie Radziwill’s, whose other guests included the great Barry Humphries, his wife Lizzie, and a man I had never ...
In last week’s Radio Derb I uttered some unkind words about Oprah Winfrey. The week before that, in a VDARE column, I had been uncharitable about the movie Ms. Winfrey has ...
The hit movie Lee Daniels’ The Butler, staring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, takes us back to the bad old days when blacks worked in the White House rather than lived ...
After all the progress we’ve made as a nation, it’s depressingly obvious that Americans still harbor a deep-seated hatred and fear of clowns. This shameful fact ...
The Week’s Most Scurrilous, Querulous, and Perilous Headlines SPORTS: WHERE POLE VAULTING MEETS POLE SMOKING Simply because the issue of whether or not an athlete enjoys ...
Dear Gato, I was watching the video for the Pet Shop Boys" dance single "Vocal" and it took me back to a happy time"the UK summer of "91, seen? We used to ...
I guess that powerful blacks, and the rich white liberals who fawn on them, just aren't into noblesse ...
The kids today are often accused of being mindless consumers, but I don"t see it. They get their clothes secondhand, they steal their music, and they opt for skateboards and ...
ONBOARD THE WEATHERBIRD OFF THE PELOPONNESE—The old girl groans and creaks as we tack time and again, the breeze right on the nose as we negotiate the turquoise coastline. ...
Human nature is in the news: intelligence and prejudice. First, disgraced conservative analyst Jason Richwine published a piece on Politico.com under the rather plaintive title ...
A statistical analysis from England suggests that a woman’s IQ is inversely proportional to her desire to breed. This, in turn, suggests that the world will grow dumber with ...
The Week’s Most Scabrous, Fantabulous, and Cadaverous Headlines SWISS CHOCOLATE AND MELTED CHEESE Billionaire fat black lady Oprah Winfrey and psychotic male feminist Hugo ...
Dear Gato, When Felipe Calderón took office as the president of Mexico in 2006, he pledged to turn up the heat on the War on Drugs. He delivered on his promise. By 2012, over ...