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Tyrone Bogues

The Tall and Short of It

What’s the most common first name for an African-American NBA player? D’Qantivious? T’Variusness? Nah, it turns out that black pro basketball players are most commonly named Chris, followed by similarly ...

Establishment Chic

Wonkette, if you have the good fortune of not knowing, is a left-liberal site that manages to consider itself cheeky and iconoclastic while endorsing only the most exquisitely conventional, establishment-approved ...

Tucker Carlson

Tucker’s Tome

Because I’ve been on the road promoting my anthology Noticing, I decided to review Tucker Carlson’s anthology of his journalism, The Long Slide. Unlike with me, writing an article means that Tucker gets out of his ...

Obama’s Eight-Ton Lemon

The Beast’s arrival in Europe brought comparisons to the Hindus’ Juggernaut, the giant sacred conveyance that carried the idol of Jagannath, transcendental cause of the Avatars. Mandeville wrote in his Travels about how ...

Arrigo Cipriani

With Love From Harry’s Bar

It is quite possible that my favorite restaurant in the world is Harry’s Bar in Venice. For one thing, it is the home of the best club sandwich in the world. At this point in time, it is one of the few things on the ...

The Putz and the Pendulum

My 2023 word of the year was “intractable”—problems that aren’t going away. Dysgenic black America, the Israel/Palestinian conflict. Every proposed “final solution” is a fantasy (“national divorce!” “White ...

Valentine’s Day Massacres

"€œWe"€™re adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. . . . Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you"€™re fired."€ "€”Blake ...

New Orleans, French Quarter

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Hissing, Prissing, and Armisticing Headlines ALL THAT FRITTERS IS NOT GOLD Patrisse Cullors is the BLM zeppelin who embezzled millions of George Floyd bucks before being kicked out of her own bankrupt ...

Sudan President El-Ferik Ibrahim Abboud visits Scotland, 1964.

Strongmen in Exile

Having spent a great part of my life charting the decline of civilization, I am not surprised at the goings-on in Tunisia, especially as I never considered the place to be civilized. How apt that the arch-crook dictator Ben ...

All Mx-ed Up

Normal people feel there's something a bit bizarre, and slightly comical, about transsexuals, and no amount of propaganda is going to expunge ...

Laphonza Butler

The Week That Perished

The Week’s Most Biting, Alighting, and GOP-Infighting Headlines THE PUDSUCKER PROXY A Gavin Newsom/Dianne Feinstein duet: Feinstein: Don’t cry for me, California! Ché Gavara: You were supposed to have been ...

Diversity Training Disaster

All big American companies now require DEI training: diversity, equity and inclusion. All big companies! Really. It sounds responsible. But it turns out DEI courses are often useless and sometimes racist. First comes ...

Dominique Strauss Kahn

The Dirty Old Man and the IMF

Saturday was a bad day for the New World Order. New York police boarded the first-class cabin of an Air France jet bound for Paris to collar Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, a Grand ...

Loyalty to the Tribe

It’s been over six years since I last attended a church service. I maintain a proper humility toward large questions about the universe and human self-awareness, but I am a functional atheist. It seems highly ...

The Warm Embrace of Delirium Tremens

(The article in its original Spanish immediately follows.) Tell me what you drink and I’ll tell you how you love. There is an undoubted relationship between love and alcohol. According to scientists at the University of ...

Stéphane Hessel: From Resistance to Indignance

Late last year, a small book by a ninety-three-year-old man unexpectedly reached the summit of France's bestseller list. Stéphane Hessel's Indignez-Vous! (Be Indignant!) sold more than 600,000 copies from October through ...

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