Aryan Psycho Killers and Me

The horrific mass shooting in a Charleston church is bringing out the best in all of us. I might be using the word "€œbest"€ incorrectly. Left-wing pundits are blaming ...

Muhammad and the Sexy Nun

Of all the contentious issues on the cultural and political scene today, the "€œdraw Muhammad"€ controversy seems to bring out the most unsavory types, on all sides. It's ...

A Dull Lancet

There comes a time in any man's life when he wants to accumulate no more possessions, but rather disembarrass himself of those he already has. For otherwise he is in danger of ...

Privacy Hysteria

First, a follow up to last week's column: Despite being presented with (singular) evidence to the contrary, I clung weakly to my belief that few Professional Conservatives"„¢ ...

“€¨So Moses and Mohammed Walk Into an Open Mic …

"€œI love Anne Frank humor as much as the next guy"€ is a line I could never get away with. Fortunately, I"€™m not the one who said it. The quote is courtesy of Jill ...

Alfred Hitchcock

Sublime Recapitulation: Alfred Hitchcock’s “€œNew”€ Holocaust Film

But of our work, the work of our order and in particular the work of this monastery, a part"€”indeed, the substance"€”is study, and the preservation of knowledge. Preservation ...

The Year of the Truth Camps

Welcome to 2015, the year that speaking and writing freely had to stop. Anything that might cause trauma to anyone of any race except the white one will be expunged, and the ...

Joan Rivers

Cry Me a Rivers

When I read about Joan Rivers"€™ death, my eyes welled up with stinging tears. Not because she"€™d died (come on: she was 81) but in anticipation of the mouthwatering ...

Modern Israel’s Terrorist Roots

I generally don’t care about the Middle East, but since no one ever seems to shut the fuck up about it for more than five minutes, I will state for the record that I think ...

Comic Con Job

My version of Proverbs 30:18"€“19 goes: There are three things that I do not understand: the success of Al Jolson, the popularity of Milton Berle, and the appeal of Archie ...

Rape Quilt, Rape Guilt

So there's a frickin"€™ rape quilt now. Remember the AIDS quilt? Back in the 1980s, gays swiped another quaint, wholesome, colorful thing (rainbows, anyone?) to trick us into ...

A Reparations Plan That Makes Sense

Writing in The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates"€”you can thank his Black Panther dad for giving him that self-segregating first name"€”recently penned a sprawling essay called ...

Six Hours With a Hasid

Though Malaysia Airlines flights have a tendency to get lost, American Airlines is infinitely reliable, and the business class on their new A319s feels like you"€™re sitting in ...

Charlotte Dawson

The Anonymous Misogynist Online Army

Male readers who live and work in estrogen-rich environments may beg to differ, but it looks like women’s menstrual cycles may not sync up after all. (Amusingly, it’s ...

Organs of State

As Marx famously noted, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” But before said “history” gets to repeat itself, it has to be born. ...

President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel

Memo to Merkel: Tell Obama to Take a Hike

Chutzpah. I believe that’s the word for it. Just days after learning the Americans have been tapping her phones and taping her conversations, Angela Merkel has been ...


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