10 Reasons Not to Go on a Disney Cruise

Online reviews for Disney Cruises read like effusive testimonials from someone who has been healed by the Lord's power. But after returning from the Disney Magic cruise with my ...

Rango: Johnny Depp’s Peyote Western

The audience laughed hyperactively throughout the trailers for upcoming animated blockbusters. "€œDo talking-animal movies always have extra-long previews?"€ my wife ...

Carla Bruni Sarkozy

Beyond Bruni

The novelty of a model-turned-singer-turned-First Lady of France has long vanished. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy could almost be overlooked. There is little to criticize, given her poise ...

Louis Farrakhan

Listening to Louis

Churchgoing New Englanders in the early settlements normally heard two sermons every Sunday"€”one in the morning and another in the afternoon, each at least two hours long. ...

Starry-Eyed Other Woman, Mean-Spirited Mother-in-Law, and Falsely Accused Husband

Dear Delphi, I am the other woman. I have been seeing this older married man for about three months. I really like him and he says he really likes me, but he never talks about ...

Celebrity Child-Support Sweepstakes

Over the past few days the Greatest Show on Earth has rolled into town. This carnival is complete with its very own troop of freaks, and its ringmaster is cad-about-town Charlie ...

Women and Democracy in the Middle East

One of Israel's finest journalists, Gideon Levy, wrote in the daily Haaretz, "€œJust as there is no such thing as a partial pregnancy, there is no such thing as a partial ...

Reverend Fred Phelps

The Inalienable Right to Hate Fags

Based on their entertainment value alone, I believe that the Phelps family of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church deserves First Amendment protection. For entirely different reasons, ...

The Thug Gene?

Like any art form, journalism has genres. There is the celebrity-fall-from-grace genre. There is the up-and-coming cable-television-pundit-zings-opposing-network-pundit genre. The ...

Sir Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard: Baffling the Innocent Since 1966

Tom Stoppard's remarkable career stands as a puzzling rebuke to cynicism about show biz. Sure, audience-pandering, trend-surfing, and propagandizing can explain the vast majority ...

Skiing Around the Bears

GSTAAD—From my study’s wide-open, icicle-covered windows, one feels cocooned from the elements, as if in a prison cell but with the doors unlocked. The snows have finally ...

Europe’s Great Berm

The world beyond our shores seems to be entering a zone of dangerous instability. Five years from now we may be looking back nostalgically at the decades 1980-2010 as an age of ...

Too Young to Marry, Cradle-Robbing Cougar, and Blowing Off the Ex-Wife’s Funeral

Dear Delphi, My 22-year-old son is about to graduate from college and has announced he is marrying his college girlfriend this summer. I think he is too young and is going to ...

Invasion of the Kochtopussies

Ever since last August's game-changing New Yorker article about the intergalactically wealthy Koch brothers and their unholy, unfeeling, and ecologically unsanitary war to harass ...

Mr Donald Trump

Donald Trump, You’re Hired!

Would you vote for The Donald for president? Compared to Obama, anyone with sense would vote for him. Obama is a disaster, like Bush II before him. But what about Trump when ...

Campus Witch Hunts

Recently at a local college whose name I will not divulge, an act of "€œracial vandalism"€ occurred which the administration is naturally investigating. The college newspaper ...


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