Donald Trump

The Public Execution of a Manwhore

For me, the most disappointing takeaway from the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tapes was his stark admission that a woman once turned down his sexual advances. Even more ...

Afflicting the Comfortable

By and large, most professional journalists are more than willing to cop to errors. In the course of my work, I"€™ve been able to get Steve Handelsman, senior national White ...

Love Your Fellow Hater

The alt-right is having a moment. Hillary is bringing them up in speeches and everyone is talking about the frog. However, just as they"€™re gaining mainstream attention, they ...

From Orwell to Gladwell and Back

In politics, secrecy and silence are becoming less practical, while noise and distortion are coming to dominate. Thus, the 2016 election raises questions of how strategies of ...

Aborting the Trump Revolution

In taking that $915 million loss in 1995, and carrying it forward to shelter future income, Donald Trump did nothing wrong. By both his family and his business, he did everything ...

 President Rodrigo Duterte

The Strongman of The Philippines

Threatening to kill three million people is one thing, but comparing yourself to Hitler is really pushing it. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte (pronounced ...

To Hell With Safe Spaces

Scene: The Cambridge University Union in, as I remember, 1958. The invited speaker, Sir Oswald Mosley, the former leader of the British Union of Fascists, got up to his feet. A ...

Border and Order in the Debate

One hour and one minute into the first presidential debate, Donald Trump finally mentioned, in passing, the word that had gotten him this far: "€œborder."€ And then Trump ...

“€œI”€™m Not Crazy, You Are”€

NEW YORK"€”If you study Method acting at one of the great New York studios that grew out of the Stanislavsky system, the first thing they teach you is that acting is not about ...

A Few Bad Skittles

It’s official: Donald Trump, Jr. compared Syrian refugees to a bowl of Skittles candy, which means he’s Hitler, and so is his dad, and so are you. Last Monday ...

The Aborted Birther

At long last, our traumatic national nightmare has finally come to a close, all thanks to Donald Trump, who last week loudly proclaimed to all who would hear that President Obama ...

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Held Hostage

As demonstrated by a weekend of immigrant Muslim terrorism in Minnesota, New York, and New Jersey, Mrs. Clinton has left herself a hostage to fortune. While still the overdog in ...

How Did it Happen?

On Saturday night, my boys and I were watching the Mets defeat the Minnesota Twins at Citifield in Queens. It was a typically patriotic event that opened with "€œThe ...

Donald Trump

Smells Like Victory

America’s 2016 presidential campaign is turning out to be the longest Rocky movie ever made. Since the moment that Donald Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, the ...

Jerusalem

Century of Turmoil

A cease-fire in Syria brokered by the USA and Russia may hold for a bit, or it may have been thoroughly broken by the time you read this. Any optimism has to be tempered in the ...

Sick and Tirade

It has been a fun week for everybody (except Hillary Clinton) since my last column began by asking: If Donald Trump were as bad as she says, shouldn"€™t Hillary drop out so a ...


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