Vivencia Bellegarde

Another Week of Sliding Down History’s Razor Blade

The damage is incalculable! The entire fabric of the nation has been torn ...

Weatherbird

On the Wings of a Weatherbird

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 ...

From Purple Hearts to Pink Badges

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 That Perished

The Week’s Most Aggravating, Exasperating, and Humiliating Headlines Public shaming was a psychological cornerstone of communist societies. Although framed as ...

Letters From a Screenwriter in Trouble

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 ...

Hillary Clinton

The Great Pro-Hillary Brainwashing Campaign Begins

Will Mrs. Clinton run for president again in 2016? Is a bean green? Of course she ...

10 Secrets to Good Conversation

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 ...

Roger Federer

The Champion and the Chump

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 ...

A Rebel Yell for the Colonel

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 ...

The Spooks of Hazzard

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 ...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

The Week That Perished

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 ...

Letters From a Screenwriter in Trouble

Dear Gato, This time last week I fell asleep and woke up in an MRI machine asking myself, "€œWhere am I? And how did I get here?"€ I was lying inside the industrial-size ...

Dysfunctional Communities

The Founding Fathers must be spinning in their mausoleums. Mausolea, whatever ...

See You at the Dojo

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 ...

Bruce Lee

The View From Nowhere

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 ...

Occam’s Butter Knife

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. ...


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