He Who Would Battle Monsters

My friend Hugh Dancy came to London this week while on a break before filming a series about that least friendly of fictional characters, Thomas Harris’s serial killer ...

Paula Deen

The Spit-Roasting of Paula Deen

Deep-battered and Southern-fried celebrity chef Paula Deen is crying tears made of butter after admitting in a court deposition that a long, long time ago she said the word ...

Letters From a Screenwriter in Trouble

Dear Gato, Forgive my disappearing act. The Dalai Lama flew into town nine days ago. Unofficially. Unexpectedly, at any rate. And in so doing he created such a hot ticket, only ...

The Evolution of Bad Tennis

A first-round loser at Wimbledon this year will receive $35,000 for showing up even if he defaults before the first ball is struck. Back in 1957 I got close to 200 dollars for ...

What a Fiasco. What a Waste. What a Crime.

Stupidity is no bar to political advancement "€” How do you think we ended up with Joe ...

The Importance of Hatred

With all the deintellectualization, deindustrialization, and dehumanization in the news it's easy to become numb. A looming battle with Syria for no sane reason, surrender of ...

The Man Who Blew the Lid off Maoism

I was slow on the uptake in understanding Chinese communism's awfulness. I"€™d been a lefty in my student days without knowing anything much about China. Toward the end of those ...

The Last Gay Youth Club on the Left

I’ve heard it all my life: “If some pervert ever laid a hand on my kid, I’d kill them!” Yet how frequently is such blowhardiness translated into action? ...

Scenes From a Nashville Convenience Store

I didn"€™t expect to see so many derelicts in Music City USA. I thought the home of country music would be a little more...country? Last week I fled the Atlanta metro area to ...

The Week That Perished

Father’s Day has been called “the Rodney Dangerfield of Holidays” and was essentially created as an afterthought to Mother’s Day. It wasn’t declared ...

Edward Snowden

Raison d’État

File under the heading: "There Goes the ...

Johnny Buffalo McInnes

10 Misconceptions I Had About Parenting Before I Became a Parent

It's easy to be arrogant about parenting before you become a parent. Here are some insane beliefs I had about parenting before I tried it. 1. I"€™LL NEVER WEAR A BABY ...

Taki and John-Taki Theodoracopulos

Drinking, Sailing, and Sleeping it Off

SAINT-TROPEZ—To the once-upon-a-time sleepy fishing village, now the focal point for Russian oligarch excess, outrageously ugly super-yachts, and what is commonly known as the ...

The Sexual Harassment Panic

So there I was with my 17-year-old son, showing him how to change a wheel. I share a car with him, and one of the tires had gone flat overnight. Off with the hubcap, out with the ...

Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles

The Second-Hand Men

Last week I drove from Seville to Ronda, its great rival for primacy in the bullfighting world. Accompanying me was the noted son of that town, Cayetano Rivera ...

Cannibalism Among the Oppressed

When big-bootied FLOTUS Michelle Obama was heckled last week by a grizzled lesbian activist who sort of resembles Glenn Beck with AIDS, the entire progressive coalition nearly ...


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