When Paris Shut Down

Bonjour, mes amis! Fifty years ago this month I was living in Paris and life was, shall we say, grand. Back then there was nothing like Paris in the spring and early summer, with ...

Adam Parfrey Saved My Life

During his 61 years on this earth, Adam Parfrey was called a fascist, a commie, a Nazi, a misogynist, a right-wing conspiracy nut, a left-wing conspiracy nut, a satanist, a ...

Occam’s Condom

If you’re a black woman living in Los Angeles County—as I’m sure many of our readers are—you are six times more likely than a white woman living in LA to have syphilis. ...

Letters

The Affirmative Action Honor System The utility of Affirmative Action is that it allows affluent whites, who are never impacted by it, feel enlightened and even more superior to ...

Eric Schneiderman

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Predatory, Statutory, and Transitory Headlines IS NEW YORK’S ATTORNEY GENERAL A RACIST, WOMAN-BEATING SEXUAL PREDATOR? New York State Attorney Eric ...

The Centrist Illusion

Like many of us, Michael Shermer is troubled by America’s increasing polarization. In a recent article in Quillette, “How Classical Liberalism Can Heal the Bonds of American ...

Rashida Jones

The Affirmative Action Honor System

Although we are constantly told by white intellectuals that race does not exist, the most remarkable aspect of the American system of racial affirmative action is that it ...

Letters

Enumerating Jews Mr. Sailer quips that “great-grandpa wasn’t trying to join a WASP golf club, he was instead blackballed by a German Jewish golf club.” Or not. My German ...

Karl Marx

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Surliest, Burliest, and Girliest Headlines CELEBRATING MARX IN SPITE OF HISTORY “Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it,” wrote philosopher ...

Pope Francis

Maxims for Life, an Antidote to Hope: Part Two

Morality is a mixed thing. “Do we really want peace?” Pope Francis asks on Twitter. Believing the answer is yes, one of the most influential men on earth answers: “Then ...

Hunter S. Thompson

Why It Was So Easy to Nuke the White House Media Stuffed-Shirt Dinner

NEW YORK—Leave it to a bunch of self-important self-righteous self-serious journalists to miss the whole point. (That’s what they call themselves. They prefer the French word ...

Enumerating Jews

Jonathan Weisman, a mid-level New York Times staffer and author of the short but repetitious new book (((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump, is not a ...

Lynching Toward Redemption

The dream has finally been realized: America now has a national lynching memorial, and if you’re like me, you bought your tickets way in advance (take my word for it—get your ...

The Phallus of Kharhorin

Revolt of the Involuntary Celibates

Early one afternoon last week in Toronto, 25-year-old software developer Alek Minassian allegedly drove his van over nearly a mile-long stretch of city sidewalk, wantonly plowing ...

Letters

Donald Trump: The First Jewish President? Whoa Mr Cole, which Jews are you talking about? Just about everyone at the synagogues I attend, think President Trump is the greatest ...

Randa Jarrar

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Overweight, Reprobate, and Boilerplate Headlines A PIG CALLED RANDA The first thing you notice when looking at a picture of Randa Jarrar is that she is extremely ...


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