Marilyn Monroe

Good Riddance, Norma Jeane

Growing older is an odd experience made stranger by knowing things which should be familiar to everyone but that hardly anyone knows. This is brought to mind when the topic of ...

D-Day Veterans in Normandy

10 Great Things About Old Men

Ever hang out with an old dude? They’re pretty great. They’re not self-obsessed the way boomers are. They’re not “over it” the way Generation X is, and they’re not ...

James Stewart and Grace Kelly in Rear Window

Manhattan Melodrama

NEW YORK—Summertime, and as the song tells us, “the livin’ is easy.” The temperature is in the nineties, girls’ dresses are at their flimsiest, love is in the air, and ...

Brad Pitt and Hunter McCracken

The Tree of Life: A Waco Episcopalian’s Version of the Sistine Chapel

The movie industry cares only about money, not art. Right? Yet Terrence Malick’s four-decade-long career demonstrates how much money and talent film folk will lavish on an ...

Maria Sharapova

Women’s Tennis: Equal Pay for Inferior Work

I’ll let you in on a secret jealously guarded by the God of PC: Equal prize money for men and women at the Grand Slam tennis tournaments is an insult to every principle of ...

Skull and Bones Bonesmen

Remembrance of Yale’s Past

We love Yale sluts! “No” means “yes,” and “yes” means “anal”—that’s the beastly braying cry at Yale these days. The frat boys from Delta Kappa Epsilon (G. W. ...

Philip Roth

Philip Roth: Still Offending the Squares

Even as a septuagenarian, Philip Roth can’t seem to stop offending the kind of people who make it their business to be offended all the damn time. The latest case in point: the ...

Never Stand in the Way of Failure

College kids go through a strange phase where they decide it would be prudent to hang out with a hobo. Sometimes the kid is at the cheapest bar in town and he’s hammered enough ...

May 2011: The Month in Bad Parenting

As May draws to a close, we’d like to set a good example by making public examples of parents who’ve made bad examples of themselves this past month. All right, let’s ...

Planks, But No Planks: The Fatal Idiocy of “Planking”

On the off chance that you lead a remotely fulfilling life and were busy working, studying, or having sex—even alone—on Wednesday, you may have missed the “First Annual ...

Obama’s Eight-Ton Lemon

The Beast’s arrival in Europe brought comparisons to the Hindus’ Juggernaut, the giant sacred conveyance that carried the idol of Jagannath, transcendental cause of the ...

Obama’s Eight-Ton Lemon

The Beast's arrival in Europe brought comparisons to the Hindus"€™ Juggernaut, the giant sacred conveyance that carried the idol of Jagannath, transcendental cause of the ...

Santa Monica, CA

An Impermanent Paradise Called California

In February, fresh from the great victory at Oxford, I went to a dinner party in London. At one point my historian friend asked: "€œDon"€™t you miss Europe?"€ My response ...

Times Square circa 1950

I Liked the Older New York

In that wonderful old Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, gambler Sky Masterson is romancing the Salvation Army’s Sister Sarah Brown after an all-nighter of boozing it up in ...

Owen Wilson

Midnight in Paris: The Lost Generation Reborn

Satire is a reactionary art form powered by contempt for the present. Although Woody Allen, now 75, has always espoused conventionally liberal views, he's one of the last figures ...

Ragging on Daddy, Plastic Surgery Faux Pas, and Sending Swindling Siblings to the Slammer

Dear Delphi, My parents are going through a divorce after 35 years of marriage. I don"€™t see the point of it all after 35 years, and even though I am a grown woman I am still ...


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