Standing Up to the Oligarchs

Much ink has been spilled scapegoating the various newfangled nerdy types known as "€œquants"€ for the financial apocalypse. As a journeyman member of the breed, I"€™m ...

Combat Training for Toddlers

My first and only kid was born two years ago, and I almost didn’t live to see him. A month before he hatched, a jumbo brain tumor knocked me unconscious. I turned blue and ...

How to Handle Hair Plugs, an Indecent Daughter, and an Ugly Grandson

Dear Delphi, I am a 58-year-old man and I am considering getting hair plugs. What do you think? "€”Hair Loss in Hartford Dear Hair Loss in Hartford, I don"€™t think men ...

All That Glitters is Not Gold (A Cautionary Tale in Two Parts)

Part I Following my recent tour of the Petropavlovsk gold project in Eastern Russia, I opted to return home by a somewhat circuitous route, spending two days in Haida Gwaii, off ...

Harry Potter

J. K. Rowling: Britain’s Most Important Cultural Conservative

Kids these days have short attention spans. Or so I"€™ve often been informed. For example, Baroness Greenfield, an Oxford professor of "€œsynaptic pharmacology,"€ recently ...

Fortysomethings (and Why I Hate Them)

Divorced, decapitated, dead"€”King Henry VIII's wives had it simple. For 21st-century fortysomethings"€”my contemporaries"€”the litany of woe is somewhat more extensive: ...

Don”€™t Tread on My Junk

Two months after the second WTC tower collapsed, George W. Bush started the Transportation Security Administration. A month later, some British douchebag who called himself ...

Ray LaHood: Obama’s Power-Mad Cell Phone Czar

America is in debt past its eyeballs. Unemployment remains stuck near double digits. Small and large businesses, unions and insurers are clamoring for Obamacare waivers in droves. ...

Nick Boles: England’s Arch-Modernizer

Boles, Nick. Which Way's Up?: The Future for Coalition Britain and How to Get There. London, Biteback, 2010, 133 pages, £8.99. Nick Boles not only belongs to the new generation ...

Bunky Mortimer’s Upper Class Guide to Drinking, Part II

Now, class, you will remember in this symposium's first installment that we dealt with the dry martini, the pink gin, and the bullshot, the proper cocktails which mark a gentleman ...

Tea Party’s Winning Hand

Other than being the highest-profile Republican victims of Tea Party candidates, what do Mike Castle, Charlie Crist and Arlen Specter have in common? Other than being tea party ...

Election Eve 2008: A Bad Night to be White in Harlem

Two years ago, I was invited to an Election Eve party in Harlem. I found New York was vibrating with premature praise for our Savior. Centuries of cruel white hegemony would ...

From Baby Boom to Bust

Barack Obama's election was an anomaly, a lurch backward. It defied the apparently inevitable and stood athwart history crying, "€œStop!"€ It has been clear for at least ten ...

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Time Alone With the Boys, Feeling Stalked, Pregnant Harpy, and Lush Wife

Dear Delphi, I am a 26-year-old boy and have a great girlfriend I really like. The problem is, I want to have some time with the boys but I can"€™t seem to manage. This is how ...

127 Hours of Hollywood Hokum

The exuberant 127 Hours, Director Danny Boyle's first movie since winning the Best Picture Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, is surprisingly comparable to The Social Network. While ...

The Drifting Capital of Terror

The printer cartridge bombs which nearly blew up U.S.-bound commercial jets have turned Sana"€™a, Yemen, into the new world terror capital. Terror, which the United States ...


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