It's hijab vu all over again. Each "new" Muslim regalia hoo-ha"this week, it's the French burkini battle"makes me feel like I"m trapped in Turkish Groundhog ...
"Oh, Jerry, don"t let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." I"m pre-crying. TCM's running a 24/7 Bette Davis marathon today, and although Now, Voyager (1942) ...
Being a conservative who knows and loves film, music, books, TV, and other facets of culture (pop and otherwise) can be brutal. I"m not just talking about the "I ...
Calling the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator one of my hobbies isn"t entirely accurate; it would be like someone whose knowledge of cinema doesn"t extend beyond 1990s Hong Kong ...
On assignment in other countries, David Frum would fish out likely friendlies in hotel bars by yelling, "Irv Weinstein!" Neither Frum nor I grew up in Buffalo, but their ...
The difference between stereotypes and clichés is that stereotypes are mostly accurate, and clichés mostly aren"t. Oscar Wilde turned platitudes inside ...
I don"t like Donald Trump on the First Amendment, don"t trust him on the Second, and positively loathe him on eminent domain. I covered that here at Taki's in October ...
We rightly bitch about Obama's two-term international "apology tour," but what to call Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's compulsive peregrinations? The "frivolity ...
I moved out of Boystown over a decade ago, but still trek down there every five weeks to get my hair done. I can"t stomach the prospect of explaining to some new, nearby ...
Such are the epochal times we"re living in that even timeworn truisms are at risk of obsolescence. Take "Is the Pope Catholic?" Those of a certain age may prefer ...
The first vegan I ever met was a straight-edge Christian anarchist from England who was crashing with my roommates and me under circumstances that probably weren"t that clear ...
Normally I wouldn"t subject you to two columns in a row about Canadian goings-on, but I see my new topic has already been deemed worthy of attention here, at "The Week ...
It was an accident. Then again, so was Chappaquiddick. No, Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau didn"t kill anybody. Dammit. Because, what with his majority ...
Leon Neyfakh writes for Slate so, big surprise, his article "They Totally Knew: The People Who Foresaw the Rise of Donald Trump" doesn"t include a single ...
I know there are married couples comprised of one liberal and one conservative, the same way I "know" there are fans of pegging, blood pudding, and Dixieland jazz. That is ...
"It now seems rare for a week to pass without a significant celebrity death being reported," the BBC intoned after Prince's demise, adding that they"d already run ...
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