Politics
More Questions Than AnswersJun 27 2016 Dancing around an unpleasant reality is what politics are all about nowadays"Donald Trump excluded"with political correctness the enveloping cloud that hides truth and the facts. |
Cultural Caviar
When Harry Met Taki…Jun 03 2016 Things have never been grimmer. Wall Street wolves have become billionaires while rigging the system, rats like William Kristol are showboating on television and spreading |
Issue of the Century
Cowards, Go Reproduce YourselvesMay 06 2016 Once the French had cleared out of Moscow in October 1812, special commissions were set up to investigate those who had played nice with the |
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With Apologies to Nathan HaleApr 28 2016 The English writer E.M. Forster infamously said that if he had to betray either his country or a friend, he hoped he would betray the |
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Out of BoundsMar 01 2016 Althea Gibson was a black American lady tennis player who won Wimbledon and many other major championships during the late "50s. She was also a |
Cultural Caviar
Go, Vontaze!Jan 17 2016 Thirty years or so ago, I wrote an article about a mugging in New York's Central Park, one that today would have got me arrested |
Politics
Who Scares America More?Jan 11 2016 This is a certainty: Donald Trump would be the next chancellor if he were running for office in Germany. Mass assaults on German women by |
Diversity Training
Whitewashing the BlackboardJan 05 2016 Here's some more good stuff from the "academy" to get 2016 really rolling. It concerns Cecil Rhodes, the empire builder who left an Oxford University |
Cultural Caviar
Not-So-Sweet “16Jan 03 2016 2016 will be a hell of a year, hell being the operative word. It will be the year that the greatest Greek writer since Homer |
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Troubling TimesDec 22 2015 The week between Christmas and New Year's is a long one, recovery time for many of us. The silliest newspaper in the world, The New |
Cultural Caviar
Outrageous Cases of OutrageDec 07 2015 Who said that African-Americans lack initiative? It was obviously a fool, and a racist to boot. White folks never came up with terrific initiatives such |
Politics
Time to Get ToughNov 19 2015 Leave it to the egregious New York Times to run an editorial three days after the Paris massacres defending the so-called refugees. They are not |
Politics
The Good DoctorNov 06 2015 A few years back I was spending the weekend with the designer Oscar de la Renta and his wife, and they took me along to |
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Long Island UnsoundOct 26 2015 Long before the word "oligarch" became a substitute for major Russian crooks and fraudsters, and a decade before Tom Wolfe invented masters of the universe, |
Cultural Caviar
Civilized LivingOct 10 2015 Seville—Let’s take it from the top: Seville is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe, the capital of Andalusia, situated by the banks of |
Politics
The Saudi SeductionOct 07 2015 As everyone knows, when you cross a camel with a mule, you get a Saudi ruling family member. A camel crossed with a snake produces |
Cultural Caviar
Autumn of the GameSep 02 2015 September means football, in high school, in prep school, and, of course, where it all began, in college. There is nothing that evokes F. Scott |
Elections
The Virtue of HostilityAug 14 2015 I met Donald Trump during the late "90s, at a grand party thrown by Lord Black for his wife's 60th birthday. It was in New |
Cultural Caviar
The Trouble With Ta-NehisiAug 07 2015 The newspaper that prints only what fits its piously fraudulent agenda, The New York Times, has reviewed a book by one Ta-Nehisi Coates twice, both |
Crime and Punishment
Pistols at Dawn?Jul 16 2015 There is an English writer who is going around telling all and sundry that I made a pass at his wife. Now, Englishmen are known |
Greece
The Oldest Trick in the BookJul 15 2015 If the government of a country was being threatened by a larger neighboring nation with invasion, and held a referendum whether to fight or give |
Commerce
Demagogue DaysJul 09 2015 Back in the good old days of 2,500 years ago, the Greeks blamed the gods for their self-induced disasters. In modern times the Brits were |
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The Man in the White SuitJul 01 2015 For those who like to see their name in print, the Hiltons and Kardashians of this world, make sure that when the man in the |
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The Flickering EcstasyJun 18 2015 Back in the good old days, when Ike and Mamie lived in the White House"and the neocons were an ugly bunch of short bald people |
Cultural Caviar
A Vast OrnithologyJun 06 2015 The last week in Gotham was exceptional fun. A Broadway play—compliments of the producer, my NBF Harvey Weinstein—Finding Neverland, had me clapping with one hand |
Cultural Caviar
For Cheat’s SakeJun 04 2015 It was, using Edward De Vere's words, much ado about nothing. The media didn"t think so, called it "Deflategate," and one of America's great sporting |
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