Cultural Caviar
A Monumental DisgraceJun 20 2017 They"re falling like dominoes, starting with the great Robert E. Lee, whose statue went down with a yank of a crane in a jiffy, after |
Cultural Caviar
To Tell You the Truth…Apr 21 2017 If the Clintons were not as down-market as they are, they would have fit in perfectly in 15th-century Florence, the city that gave us Botticelli |
Cultural Caviar
Poor Uncle SamMar 31 2017 William F. Buckley spent his adult winter months in Rougemont, an alpine resort next to its chicer neighbor Gstaad, now a mecca for the nouveaux |
Cultural Caviar
What the Zuck?!Mar 06 2017 Who was it who said that behind every great fortune lies a great crime? The answer is a Frenchman by the name of Balzac, known |
Issue of the Century
What a MessFeb 15 2017 I write this from a small village high up in the Swiss Alps, where I have just left the tiny police station with a warning: |
Oy Vey!
The Best of Times, the Worst of ‘Times’Dec 02 2016 Even by modern, cataclysmically hysterical standards, the postelection histrionics by the losers take the proverbial cake. Poor Graydon Carter, the Vanity Fair honcho. He wrote |
Cultural Caviar
Book RetortsNov 08 2016 American writers are on a roll. Bob Dylan wins the Nobel in Literature (for backward children), and Paul Beatty the Man Booker Prize, the first |
Politics
Fat Cats Are Wearing ThinOct 10 2016 A bunch of charlatans and clowns met in Athens, Greece, at the end of September and, to use an old Greek expression, managed to make |
Cultural Caviar
A Dream Wedding…for the TabloidsSep 01 2016 The Brits are big on weddings, and Pippa is getting hitched sometime this autumn, or maybe later on, when the English weather is at its |
Cultural Caviar
Losing GamesAug 25 2016 In the summer of 1992 BC (before Clinton) I was cruising in Greece with William F. Buckley and his wife, Pat, on board the boat |
Cultural Caviar
Glitz and GoreAug 03 2016 The Negresco is a beautiful rococo belle epoque hotel built around the turn of the last century on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, south |
Cultural Caviar
Lists to Live ByJul 18 2016 As a child, the only list I had ever heard about was the FBI Ten Most Wanted. Then a lady who wrote about fashion"Eugenia Sheppard, |
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 |
Uncategorized
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, |
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