You have to admit, the word “monkeypox” is fun to say: monkeypox, monkeypox, monkeypox. On the other hand, this less lethal relative of smallpox, which is now up to 2,000 ...

The World Health Organization says another pandemic of a scale similar to the 1918 Spanish Flu, which killed 675,000 in the U.S., is a statistical certainty. Unlike the current ...

I noticed a very pretty girl sitting not far from me on a bus ride of about 45 minutes last week. Soon after the bus departed, she took out her makeup and spent about thirty ...

Curiously, many nonfiction books these days are published without an index, despite Microsoft Word providing indexing. My guess is that because serious new books mostly intrigue ...

“There is no art,” says King Duncan in Macbeth, “to find the mind’s construction in the face.” In other words, one cannot tell a person from his face. Well, one has to ...

With institutional momentum for awarding vast reparations to African-Americans accelerating, it occurs to me that during the pandemic and racial reckoning we have already run a ...

No doubt it is evidence of my dissociation from much of modern life, but until the recent libel trials I did not really know who Johnny Depp was and had never heard of Amber ...

One of the confusions of the age is the conflation of what is desirable with what is a right. For example, it is clearly desirable that everybody should be housed decently: No ...

In perhaps the biggest setback yet suffered by the transgenderist juggernaut, the International Swimming Federation has sunk the dreams of Olympic gold of Will “Lia” Thomas, ...

Sometimes I think that the world has gone mad, but then I remember that, perhaps, it has always been going mad. Did not Thomas Middleton title his play It’s a Mad World, My ...

At age 86, David Hackett Fischer, author of the landmark 1989 book Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (which is perhaps the most influential work of American ...

You didn’t think you could just walk away from Covid hysteria, did you? You didn’t think it would just end, right? In fact, “Phase II” is about to begin. And I’m not ...

Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. —Hamlet When Hamlet, playing the lunatic, calls the king’s chief counselor, Polonius, a ...

White male aircraft carrier fighter pilots were the heroes of the 1986 hit movie Top Gun. But today, white men are the designated villains in our culture. Yet the profession of ...

A creative writing course at a British university has withdrawn graduation requirement that students should attempt a sonnet, not on the reasonable grounds that it is futile to ...

Modern school shootings are an exceptionally abhorrent phenomenon that we got along just fine without for the first couple of centuries of U.S. history. So, it’s wholly ...