The damage is incalculable! The entire fabric of the nation has been torn ...
PORTO HELI—I am standing on the deck of a 100-foot schooner that was built in Normandy in 1931 by Gerald and Sara Murphy, the golden American couple who invented the south of ...
Am I alone in suspecting that most fallacious arguments"those tedious rules of the rhetorical road"were cooked up by stuck-up mediocrities to keep their betters from ...
The Week’s Most Aggravating, Exasperating, and Humiliating Headlines Public shaming was a psychological cornerstone of communist societies. Although framed as ...
Dear Gato, The silly season is over and the dog days are about to set in. Come stai? I"m writing from the Tuscan hill country, where I fled after the São Paulo trip ended ...
Will Mrs. Clinton run for president again in 2016? Is a bean green? Of course she ...
Last night, I dreamed I had been kidnapped by Chechen terrorists, whom I shot in the cock before jumping off a bridge. My wife doesn"t want to be bored with the details of ...
GSTAAD—This is a tale of two men. One possesses youth, talent, fame, and even beauty; the other none of the above except arrogance, physical repulsiveness, and a sexual ...
Trayvon. Bernanke. The Colonel. America is buffeted by blustery winds of change these days, yet who among us would have thought even they could disquiet the solemnity of the ...
Only in America can white people organize an event intended to mock poor Southern whites, have black people crying that it's racist against blacks, and then have white people ...
The Week’s Most Lascivious, Invidious, and Ridiculous Headlines GOMORRAH IN THE WEST, SODOM IN THE EAST Pterodactyl-faced ex-Congressman and Big Apple mayoral hopeful ...
Dear Gato, This time last week I fell asleep and woke up in an MRI machine asking myself, "Where am I? And how did I get here?" I was lying inside the industrial-size ...
The Founding Fathers must be spinning in their mausoleums. Mausolea, whatever ...
THUN, SWITZERLAND—”Mokuso!” All 200 of us who are already on our knees and sitting on our heels in the Japanese “seiza” position remain dead silent at ...
Last Friday I had an idle chat with a middle-aged Chinese lady (not Mrs. Derbyshire). I mentioned that the following day, July 20th, would be the 40th anniversary of the death of ...
With Barack Obama solemnly recounting for us last Friday how being black in America has personally burdened him, race is back in the news. Actually, race is always in the news. ...