Ruins of Detroit

Bestiality, Cannibalism, Royal Gastroenteritis, and A Gamy Ex-Dictator

The aristocratic class can do pretty much as they please, without fear of penalty or ...

Jerry Lee Lewis

I Got the Boogie-Woogie Brokenhearted Blues

It felt like a stiletto jab in my liver, a pain so sharp it will take half a century to forget. Jessica Raine—AKA Nurse Jenny in Call the Midwife—has shacked up with a married ...

Plus ça Change…

Nelson Mandela is home from the hospital. The guy is 94 years old and not in bad shape"€”perhaps illustrating the black-white mortality crossover. Mandela and I go back a long ...

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge

Portrait of the Week

HOME Officials in NYC found that nearly 80 percent of the city's public-school graduates had to relearn basic reading, writing, or math after arriving at community college. ... A ...

Insular Concerns and the World Outside

Does a young woman really need general anesthetic for a teeth ...

Gavin McInnes

Tackling White Privilege

The backlash for my "€œTackling Asian Privilege"€ was so intense, it made me feel like a Maxell tape ad. I got a handful of texts (how"€™d they get my number?), dozens of ...

Bob Mathias

The Slow Rot of the Olympics

I recently addressed The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society for the Kilburn Lecture on “The Future of the Olympic Games.” Instituted in 1781, the learned society is ...

Quarterly Potpourri

It's been three months: time for another potpourri of unrelated items. Assholes. To make up for not reading half as many books as I’d like to, I read about books. An ...

Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un

Dictators and Celebrities

When a fashion magazine recently sponsored former NBA star Dennis Rodman's visit to North Korea there were howls of outrage about the morally dubious spectacle of Rodman boasting ...

KKK is the New UFO

The current identity-politics hysteria was launched about a year ago (conveniently enough for the Obama reelection campaign) with the news that an angelic black baby named Trayvon ...

My Otherkin Headmate is a Two-Spirited Starseed!

I picked the wrong year to quit drinking. If you"€™ve never been to an old-school AA meeting, imagine Vince Lombardi's locker room if he"€™d been coaching Pilgrims with ...

Portrait of the Week

HOME California Rep. Maxine Waters claimed that 170 million jobs will be lost as a result of sequestration. Homeland Security released hundreds of illegal immigrants in advance of ...

The Beer, Baccy and Crumpets Party

Mighty Oaks From Little Acorns

If you want to express the furthest extreme of loathing and disgust you can double down, putting the two words together to make ...

Tackling Asian Privilege

Amidst the hubris of the pope calling it quits and Miss Delaware relinquishing her sash due to porn allegations, it's important we take a step back and discuss the elephant in the ...

Richard M. Nixon

Happy Birthday, Mr. Nixon

I was distressed to learn of some of your current problems and wanted to send you a word of encouragement. Since the time Bob Tyrrell introduced us a few years ago, I have been ...

Women Spoiling Men’s Fun

The war between the sexes is fought on many fronts, some of them very far away. There’s a report from one of those fronts in the January 2013 issue of The China Journal. ...


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