Post-Abortion Remorse, Fake Fendi, and Racing Against the Biological Clock

Dear Delphi, I am a 40-year-old man and about six years ago I told my then-girlfriend to abort our unborn child, which she did. Now I would really like to find someone and become ...

When the Punishment Fits the Crime

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time"€” To let the punishment fit the crime"€” The punishment fit the crime. Was that a New Year's resolution of Prisons Minister ...

Mark Twain and his friend John Lewis in 1903

Huckleberry Finn and the Whitewashing of American History

By its editor's count, 219 "€œniggers"€ have been expunged from a reprint of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that’s being foisted on our humiliatingly ...

A Miserable Slog Called Biutiful

Who's the leading leading man these days? Having sat through all 147 dolorous minutes of Biutiful, Alejandro González Iñárritu's follow-up to 2006's Babel (a pretentious ...

English Defence League: Defending the Rainbow Against Extreme Islam

The English Defence League (EDL) is a white-power sect of the British National Party that hates Jews, gays, and blacks but REALLY hates Muslims. In short, they"€™re Nazis. ...

Tennis Legend Gardnar Mulloy: Still Serving at 97

I do not have many friends who are 97, but tennis legend Gardnar Mulloy is one of them. It is not clear why I should be so lucky to know him, nor why I should have had the ...

Jonah Goldberg: A Comfortable “€œConservative”€ in the Belly of the Beast

It is a world historical event when Jonah Goldberg"€”one of our most prominent conservative intellectuals, judging by his book sales and his almost daily TV ...

Loyalty to the Tribe

It’s been over six years since I last attended a church service. I maintain a proper humility toward large questions about the universe and human self-awareness, but I am a ...

Middle-Aged Libertine, Cradle-Robbin”€™ Daddy, and a Class-D Puta

Dear Delphi, Will I survive being a middle-aged white male? I turn 47 in March. I have been married 23 years and have four kids. During the course of the past year, I have ...

Requiem for a Patriot

“Conservative Tycoon ... Dies at 95,” said the New York Times headline on New Year’s Eve about the death of Roger Milliken. Clearly, the headline writer did not ...

FOX News Reconstructs Conservative History

FOX News has been running a series on the conservative movement and recently released a DVD showing what purports to be the definitive picture of the movement's progress. I have a ...

How to Handle Nasty Christmas Drunks and a Slutty, Impulsive Wife

Dear Delphi, My 63-year-old husband behaved terribly on Christmas Eve. He got a bit drunk and stared"€”really stared"€”at my 30-year-old son's cute little 24-year-old ...

Girly Nation

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, on hearing that a football game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Minnesota Vikings had been canceled due to snow: There is a magic to ...

Charles Portis and John Wayne

The New “€œTrue Grit”€: Truer to the Portis Novel

The Coen Brothers"€™ devotion to odd vernaculars has contributed to their haphazard box-office track record. Audiences immediately cottoned to Fargo's "€œYou betcha"€ ...

Who Owns the Future?

“That speaks about who is going to be leading tomorrow.” So said Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Every ...

The DREAM Act: ¿Reconquista Mañana?

Countless self-described "€œDreamers"€ were rudely awakened on December 18th when the US Senate failed to reach the 60 votes necessary to proceed with the DREAM (Development, ...


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