The feeling of summertime abandonment is here—the Hamptons are overflowing with mouth-frothing groupies looking for celebrities, and the Long Island Expressway is replete with ...

It is an old theme of literature that men and women, in the throes of passion, tend to fool themselves and each other. As Schopenhauer argued in “The Metaphysics of Love” ...

NEW YORK—I don’t know about you, but I’m circling my calendar and stocking whiskey for the night of September 10, when ABC will go prime-time live from Boardwalk Hall in ...

For anyone who takes cheer in the idea that all this “progress” we’ve been making the past generation has led to increased happiness, think again: The nation’s suicide ...

Too Much Monkey Business No, they cancelled ALL the Roseanne shows, including every single old episode re-run. Because the audience, at least for the last 50 years, has conflated ...

The Week’s Dustiest, Mustiest, and Fustiest Headlines SUPREME COURT: YOU DON’T HAVE TO BAKE THAT GAY CAKE AFTER ALL Bad news for people who insist on a constitutional right to ...

NEW YORK, N.Y.—This week fifty years ago saw the assassination of Robert Kennedy, a man I met a couple of times in the presence of Aristotle Onassis, whom some Brit clown writer ...

“Passion. Purpose. Pride.” The three words were emblazoned on her black T-shirt. Rainbow-colored and printed in undulating font, the three-word tautogram hung below the ...

There is a striking passage in Edith Hamilton’s study The Echo of Greece (1957) that reads like a description of America in 2018. Reflecting on the decline of democracy in ...

MARSHALL, Tex.—The most frightening thing about Jesse Duplantis is that I think he truly believes what he’s saying. I mean, at some deep, deep level, even a guy who wears a ...

A new contender in the war of books over the implications of the onrushing discoveries in genetics is the exhaustive 656-page She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, ...

Of all the bans I’ve drawn on Facebook (yes, I’ve been on a bit of a bender about this in recent weeks, so I promise this’ll be the last mention), the oddest one I ever ...

No matter how many times we, as a society, tell everyone it’s wrong to compare black people to apes, some people simply can’t seem to stop themselves. The latest head to roll ...

In Defense of Degeneracy Mr.  Goad, Your latest rant hit things pretty much bang on: assail the humorless, puritanical cretins of the left with plain speech, ribald humor and ...

The Week’s Most Uptight, Impolite, and Dynamite Headlines JUDGE ORDERS PRESS BLACKOUT OVER TOMMY ROBINSON ARREST Tanning salon owner, English Defence League founder and ...

When it comes to murder, I am not a utilitarian; that is to say, I am against it even when the victim is an undesirable character and the world would be a slightly better place ...