French or Not French?

The Frogs are at it again—the French Resistance has reemerged, this time in an iPhone version. A mélange of French anti-racist and pro-Jewish groups whipped themselves into a ...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Setting the Record Straight on Jackie O

Jacqueline Kennedy’s oral history is now out, as told to the Kennedy courtier cum historian Arthur Schlesinger. In a foreword her daughter Caroline, another keeper of the ...

“Like” or Dislike

I was on a double-decker bus in Glasgow, Scotland, last week and heard two teenagers talking to each other about O. J. Simpson. “I’m, like, almost positive that he was ...

Alistair Horne

Affirmative Action for the Ugly

GSTAAD–This is the worst news I’ve had since the surrender at Stalingrad. The Spectator’s deputy editor has become engaged to a former advisor to my favorite minister, Iain ...

Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton

Gelded Men and Insane Socialist Women

A historian (and ex-Marine) friend reacted to Scott Locklin’s essay about the importance of tough manliness: “One of the reasons I hate liberalism is that it is wimp ...

Gwyneth Paltrow

Dead Men Don’t Cough

Ever since Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow started her website Goop.com to let people know about all the expensive stuff she owns, many have wanted to see her portray, say, a corpse ...

Radar Love, The Elixir of Jealousy, & Panic at the Country Club

RADAR LOVE Dear Delphi, My boyfriend keeps saying he needs space, and as a consequence we fight a lot. I have become so worried that he is trying to—or is going to—break up ...

The Holy Healing Horny Homely Harlots of Phoenix

Prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, and last Wednesday police in Phoenix arrested what appear to be some of the world’s oldest prostitutes. Judging from their mug ...

Katy Perry

The Boredom of Whoredom

A good woman is hard to find, especially if you’re a rigger. That’s my job, though—I climb high steel in arenas and rig tons upon tons of concert equipment. The more ...

Nothing to Commemorate

What will you do to commemorate 9/11? The ‘I Will’ campaign has thrown out the question and people from around the country, including a few celebrities, have ...

Never Trust Anyone Who Hasn’t Been Punched in the Face

Conservatives like to talk about the causes of Western Civilization’s downfall: feminism, loose morality, drug abuse, Christianity’s decline, reality TV. Blaming ...

Katt Williams

Stand Up and Say You’re Sorry

Here’s how I know the West is doomed. Yeah, the replacement rate is under 2.1 and Chaz Bono is on Dancing With the Stars. But here’s the real reason: Comedians. I ...

Chaz Bono

The Emperor’s New Body

Although she recently opted to surgically guillotine her bazooms, the stubbly tattooed blobfish born Chastity Sun Bono has no penis and has yet to fill and pave over her vagina ...

Jerry Lewis

Tears for a Clown

Slapstick is, at best, only loosely defined as comedy. If an unsupervised toddler in hysterics can do something to evoke laughter, more effort should be expected of a grown man. ...

The Obama Family Circus

Not so long ago, Barack Obama electrified and mesmerized not only America but the entire solar system and even parts of the Crab Nebula with his transparently empty promises, his ...

Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Anne Sinclair

French Lowlifes in High Society

GSTAAD—It’s been very sunny and hot, with the bluest of blue skies above and the greenest of green mountains around me. It does not get any better than this. The farmers have ...


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