Just before the current troubles in Ukraine began, we called a plumber to our rented flat in Paris, which smelled of mold at the time. He was Ukrainian. He told us why he had left ...

This St. Valentine's Day it is estimated that around $17 billion dollars will be spent on greeting cards, overpriced flowers, and dinners served by sanctimonious waiters. In more ...

With the 100th anniversary of World War I upcoming and old enmities between America and Russia resurging in contemporary form"€”for example, Glenn Beck recently said, “I ...

It took me two attempts to visit the Musée de l"€™histoire vivante"€”the Museum of Living History"€”in Montreuil, in the suburbs of Paris. The first time, because I was ...

Samuel Leistedt has my dream job. The Belgian forensic psychology professor and his team watched 400 movies and diagnosed 126 characters as true psychopaths. They concluded that ...

I suppose it would be impolite"€”vulgar, even"€”to refer to Amy Chua as a cunt, but it seems like the most apt descriptor for her. She is best known for her 2011 book Battle ...

Last week The Washington Free Beacon discussed the New York Times’ tabloid-like obsession with Obama’s favorite TV shows. Where the Times slobbers with excitement over ...

In 2002, on the tenth anniversary of the Rodney King riots, I drove down to the intersection of Florence and Normandie in South-Central LA where all hell had broken loose. To see ...

As 2014 dawns, the world continues to keep me furnished with material. For example, the current political shakeup in Turkey turns out to be a mashup of various obsessions and ...

My late friend, the distinguished economist Peter Bauer, used to say that the only true unemployment in the modern world was among satirists, for the world had grown so ridiculous ...

I think I suffer from the only behavioral disorder that does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. This is rather odd ...

Is there anything better for Christmas than a bit of a laugh? Well, a visit by, say, the blonde CIA agent in Homeland would be preferable, but I think she's got other things on ...

Whenever I listen to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, I hear not just a song cycle of unsurpassed melancholy or even despair, but the cataclysmic collapse of a civilization that ...

We live in an era obsessed with gender oppression. For example, Americans were recently alerted that the women of Harvard Business School are deprived of their rightful grade ...

This weekend’s G20 summit in Russia comes on the heels of controversy regarding the nation’s treatment of homosexuals.     I can no more genuinely fathom being ...

After Richard Nixon's landslide victory in 1972, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael lectured: I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. ...