... such stuff as madmen Tongue, and brain not; either both, or nothing, Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such As sense cannot untie. ...
It has become a press custom to ask Republican presidential hopefuls, such as Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, whether they believe in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The ...
I married a WWII buff. That means the "Hitler Channel" logo is seared into the bottom right corner of our TV screen. I figured after nearly 20 years of this, I knew about ...
Is there a man among us willing to shed a tear for the poor persecuted albinos of modern East Africa? No? Tough crowd. OK, how about if I were to sketch out a convoluted and ...
The important new book Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America, by Los Angeles Times homicide reporter Jill Leovy, is the hybrid of a true crime tale about the struggle ...
With identity politics and their accompanying political correctness in the news (as usual), it's worth considering how similar human urges play out in the world of sports. If ...
It's widely assumed, both by liberals and conservatives, that the fields of arts and entertainment innately induce egalitarian political leanings. Much of the prestige of the ...
May a lowly white Canadian like me take a little pride in my knowledge of African-American "thangs"? You know what I"m talkin" "bout, Willis: "Good ...
Hey, did you hear that "Margaret Thatcher wanted to ban sex toys" when she was prime minister? At least, that's what a bunch of headlines blared at the fag end of last ...
Has the cult of Alan Turing finally jumped the shark with the well-made but tepid movie The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the British mathematician and ...
One buys books for peculiar reasons, and not only because they are good: for example, a few days ago I bought a book for its title and its opening sentence. The title was How Do ...
When I was young I lived an idyllic life. I played sports, chased girls, and read novels. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John O"Hara, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, ...
When 20-year-old Playboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten was raped, murdered, and mutilated by her estranged husband in 1980, she was adopted as a symbol of man's inhumanity to woman ...
Exposed as I am, even at this distance, to the still-radioactive residue of America's "original sin," I thank God every day for making Canada too cold to grow ...
For most of history, being a hereditary aristocrat was a good job. The only catch was the old concept of noblesse oblige, which suggested that people of wealth, power, and ...
I"m writing this a day before the midterm elections and you"re reading it at least a day after, so I"ll focus upon a continuing feature of the political landscape: ...
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