This week sees the publication of Steven Pinker’s new book, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Pinker explains his book here. I got the book to ...
On Lake Geneva I float, looking at France across the water, where the grass is not greener but the prices are much lower. I don’t know how it works exactly, but I gather it ...
To begin with, it’s white. In an era when “‘black hole’ is the new ‘niggardly’,” you’d think that particular objection to the new Martin Luther King, Jr. statue in ...
“Paul Kersey” was the name of Charles Bronson’s character in Death Wish (1974), the “vigilante” classic about an ordinary man who avenges an attack on his family by ...
On September 1, 1957, a pretty French girl by the name of Patricia and an Italo-French couple, Feruccio and Ellen, joined me in the old harbor of Cannes waiting to board the ...
The rabidly politicized, mad-as-hell, accept-us-or-die quotient of gay Americans—at last count, somewhere between 97 to 99 percent of them—seem determined to prove that they ...
It’s amazing what a man will do for love. To please my girlfriend, I recently found myself at a private, clothing-optional gay club in New Orleans. Lounging beside a pool ...
Nostradamus, whose name means “nose of massive proportions” in Latin, is a famous prognosticator who, if he were alive today, would probably command speaking fees ...
If you get into a Brooklyn taxi and don’t see a Puerto Rican flag, ask the driver, “So what’s the deal with the Puerto Ricans?” Without exception, all cabdrivers who are ...
It says a great deal about a nation when its most telling artistic achievements are cartoons. Yet this is precisely the situation in modern American culture. With such fare as The ...
In the wonderful new world that's being lovingly sculpted by the nice people who know what's best for us, peace on Earth will apparently never come until everyone everywhere is ...
You would have to possess a heart of granite not to have been moved or delighted by the royal nuptials in London. Great Britain may be an island now largely populated by the fat ...
There was a good crowd at New York University Tuesday evening for the Intelligence Squared debate. These are full-dress formal disputations on topics of public interest, held ...
"This House would abolish the monarchy" was the resolution to be debated at the Oxford Union on February 3, 2011. I had been summoned to join the team opposing the ...
I just happened to lay my hands on a recent copy of The New York Times" "Dining & Wine" section that a friend left hanging around. Believe me, I don"t buy the ...
Japan's recent combined earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear-reactor disaster has led to the usual spate of jokes across the globe. In the modern world such jokes are universal and ...
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