Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas and the Party House

NEW YORK—I think Clarence Thomas made the right decision in the Wild Party House Case before the Supreme Court, but I think maybe my reasons would be different from his ...

Farting on Black People

I’ve often thought of Black History Month as a Valentine’s Day gift to those of us who are single. With the annual media barrage of images of black suffering past and present, ...

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino’s Empty Screen

When you watch a Martin Scorsese movie, you can tell he grew up in Little Italy around mobsters. When you watch a Quentin Tarantino movie, you can tell he grew up watching Martin ...

Justin Trudeau

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Wispiest, Crispiest, and Lispiest Headlines TRUDEAU VS. MANKIND At the present moment Justin Trudeau is the prime minister of Canada, a frozen block of ice that ...

Tariq Ramadan

Observing Ramadan

I have met Tariq Ramadan only once in my life and was very impressed by him—impressed unfavorably, that is. He seemed to me then the Jimmy Swaggart of Islamism, or at least the ...

Uma Thurman

Annoyed? #MeToo

Gstaad—For some strange reason there have been no #MeToo complaints around these parts. Some locals have grumbled about yours truly, and an interview I gave about this village ...

Meek Mill

Perpetual Victims

If you wanted to write a satire of leftist journalism, you could hardly do better than the sincere Sports Illustrated article on Meek Mill by DeAntae Prince. It concerns the ...

A World of Hurt in the Boardroom

NEW YORK—Apparently a whole bunch of CEOs and public officials and celebrities and high sheriffs of various sorts have been writhing around in their mahogany offices, screaming ...

The Men Behind The Screen Names

Last week, billionaire NBA team owner and star of TV’s Shark Tank Mark Cuban urged social-media giants Twitter and Facebook to verify that behind every one of their accounts ...

Ann Coulter

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Mental, Ungentle, and Judgmental Headlines RAPING ANN COULTER LIVE AND ON TELEVISION The main problem with modern TV crime dramas is that in their allegedly ...

The Loneliness Epidemic

Nations throughout the West have come to view loneliness as an epidemic, for it is increasingly a source of anxiety and unhappiness, and is widely believed to exacerbate health ...

James Dean in Giant

Explicating the Bible of Texas

DALLAS—My buddy Don Graham just finished a book on the State Bible of Texas. I speak, of course, of Giant, the 1956 multigenerational epic starring Rock Hudson and Elizabeth ...

California Brownout

“If you’re black, we cannot be friends. Go fuckin’ die, you ugly-ass black people.” So begins a Snapchat video by a female California high school student. “Black people ...

Up in Smoke

“I lighted a cigarette, and gave myself up to meditation.” Thus runs the most expressive quote from the entire canon of P.G. Wodehouse, who wisely leaves the actual content of ...

Rob Reiner

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Clickable, Kickable, and Despicable Headlines MEATHEAD CALLS FOR SECOND CIVIL WAR Rob Reiner is a rotund and fundamentally charmless man who’d likely be a ...

Fan Bingbing

Oh, Bingbing It

Before his untimely death last year, David Tang had attended a Pugs club luncheon under the proviso that no one would ask him how he felt. So all twenty of us asked him in unison, ...


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