Aretha Franklin

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Captivating, Titillating, and Nauseating Headlines ARGUMENT OVER “QUEEN OF SOUL” LEADS TO SHOOTING Aretha Franklin passed into the giant donut shop in ...

Bad Form

A distinguished former colleague of mine—all my former colleagues are distinguished, ex officio so to speak—received an e-mail from someone in the administration who called ...

Better to Dream Than to Be Woke

Gstaad—I need it like Boris needs a bleach job. Another birthday, that is. Birthdays tend to make one’s life pass before him in a flash. As it does, I imagine, while facing a ...

Rudyard Kipling

Why We Must Teach Toxic Masculinity in Schools

In mid-July, while Donald Trump’s visit was upsetting thousands of easily offended (and, one suspects, eagerly offended) Londoners, a small band of “student activists” were ...

The Revenge of the Weak

Listen to him squeal like a stuck pig, dear reader, his words the language of triumphant Western decay. His name is Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and, being president of the American ...

Fly BDSM

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—For those of you who are new to BDSM, let me explain a few of the basics. The letters BDSM stand for Bondage Discipline Sadism and Masochism. These are the ...

Eyes on the Prizefighters

The media wanted last August's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville to be the next "Bridge to Selma," an iconic civil rights moment honored by the entire country every year. ...

Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee

Spike Lee’s KkKrazyGlue

Spike Lee’s new movie BlacKkKlansman has received 100 percent thumbs up from 46 professional film critics aggregated by Rotten Tomatoes. This disgraceful unanimity is more ...

Gabrielle Chanel

Cover Girls and Other Girls

“An effete charlatan,” is the way the mother of my children describes the outrageously affected Hamish Bowles, a Vogue person whose pomposity is as fake as his upper-class ...

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Reptilian, Vaudevillian, and Crocodilian Headlines WEST HOLLYWOOD VOTES TO REMOVE TRUMP’S “WALK OF FAME” STAR The City of West Hollywood is a ...

The Fraudulent Fräulein (and Friend of Freud)

From time to time I would meet the late Professor Michael Shepherd for a drink. He was a most distinguished researcher in the psychiatric field, and he was formidably erudite. He ...

Lionheart

Boats and Bastards

They used to say that the primary function of a boat was to be beautiful. I suppose that is why boats are feminine, as in “She’s a real beauty, that one.” Puritan is a ...

President Donald Trump

Jeffrey Sachs and Bandy Lee: The Stupidest Experts in America

It would be difficult to imagine a greater example of oblivious stupidity and hubris than Jeffrey Sach and Bandy Lee’s recent article for Project Syndicate, “Trump’s ...

The Fake “Fake News” T-Shirt Story Perpetrated by Fake News Fakers

NEW YORK—So I have to admit, I’m one of the people who would wear the “Fake News” T-shirt that was on sale at the Newseum in Washington. But you can’t buy it ...

Reginald Denny attack, Los Angeles

Sarah Jeong Better Drive Carefully!

If you’re worried about the social media monopolies censoring speech, just be happy they can’t put you in prison. Federal prosecutors are celebrating the one-year ...

Tawana Brawley

The Emmett Till Effect

I’ve figured out a way to quantify how Establishment news organizations manipulate the contents of our minds: just track the use of tendentious phrases over the years. Since ...


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