I"m not known as a reliable source of racetrack tips, so if you are headed to Churchill Downs for this Saturday's 138th running of the Kentucky Derby, please don"t take ...
Kall me krazy, but I love the Kardashians. This is Kardashian Week if there ever was one. The fab family just signed a $40-million deal with E! for three more years of their ...
In Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character time-travels back to his old public-school classroom. "I always felt my schoolmates were idiots," he declares. On cue, a staring, ...
If you were drawing up plans on how to run a private members" club, a larger society, or even a country, military life provides some good ground rules. SELECT YOUR MEMBERS ...
In John Guare's play Six Degrees of Separation, a young black con man traduces his way into a white, rich, liberal family's midst by posing as Sidney Poitier's son, who had just ...
People often compare video gamers to crackheads, but that’s unfair. Crackheads are way more motivated to get out of the house. While gamers cozy up on the couch to battle ...
The first friend I made at Lawrenceville School was Reuben Batista, eldest son of the Cuban strongman. Being foreigners gave us something in common, the rest of the school being ...
I watched a Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate bring an evangelical crowd to their feet three years ago by announcing that "Owning a gun is a human right." I mumbled ...
Of all the comments I read during the brouhaha over my April 5th Taki's Mag column, one in particular stuck in my mind. I forgot to bookmark it and can’t recall where I read ...
My friend Mark Brennan and I were talking about class warfare. "It's cyclical," Mark said as he executed a perfect uchi mata during judo practice. "Perhaps over ...
The most intriguing gossip about Tiger Woods in a new tell-all book by his ex-swing coach is that at the height of his career in 2006-07, the world's highest-paid athlete ...
Remember when people used to say, "Sue me!" if you complained about something they said or did? "Sue me!" was one of my favorite expressions and I used it in grade ...
Media reports suggesting South Africa has been "shocked" by the viral rape video involving a young Sowetan girl are almost certainly exaggerating the public reaction. ...
Some soldiers are meant to join the elite forces, become spies, and swing through windows shouting and shooting. Some aren"t. That we"re all equal is one of the greatest ...
Did life evolve by purely natural processes? Could random mutation and natural selection really generate the human brain or the electrosensory system of the duck-billed platypus? ...
NEW YORK—Seeing Manhattan rising from the distance is always a treat. I am not sure it’s possible for anyone brought up around these parts to appreciate entirely what New ...