Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne and January Jones

Malcolm X-Men

X-Men: First Class is the fifth screen adaptation since 2000 of the Marvel Comics series. What’s the appeal of these Homo superior mutants whose superpowers cause them to be ...

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Bananas

Strident Darwinist propaganda has convinced most people that man is created in the image and likeness of ape. And as we’re almost equal to apes genetically, doesn’t it ...

Defecation Vacation, Abortion Distortion, and Cheater Defeater

Dear Delphi, I went for a weekend to the Bahamas with a group of friends. One of the couples has a four-year-old who still poops in his pants. OK, I thought four was old to still ...

Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn

Pepé Le Perv: France’s Gift to American Tabloids

NEW YORK—About once every hundred years the French nation presents America with a monumental gift. In 1781 it was 29 warships, 3,200 sailors, and 4,500 soldiers who hooked up ...

An Impermanent Paradise Called California (Part Two)

The California that gave us the film industry was far from a blank slate. In addition to the land barons, Midwesterners, and gurus whom I mentioned last time, there had also been ...

The Memorial Day Mobs

Though few Americans realize it, Memorial Day has roots that are partially racial in nature. It was originally called “Decoration Day” and was first celebrated by a group ...

Marilyn Monroe

Good Riddance, Norma Jeane

Growing older is an odd experience made stranger by knowing things which should be familiar to everyone but that hardly anyone knows. This is brought to mind when the topic of ...

D-Day Veterans in Normandy

10 Great Things About Old Men

Ever hang out with an old dude? They’re pretty great. They’re not self-obsessed the way boomers are. They’re not “over it” the way Generation X is, and they’re not ...

James Stewart and Grace Kelly in Rear Window

Manhattan Melodrama

NEW YORK—Summertime, and as the song tells us, “the livin’ is easy.” The temperature is in the nineties, girls’ dresses are at their flimsiest, love is in the air, and ...

Brad Pitt and Hunter McCracken

The Tree of Life: A Waco Episcopalian’s Version of the Sistine Chapel

The movie industry cares only about money, not art. Right? Yet Terrence Malick’s four-decade-long career demonstrates how much money and talent film folk will lavish on an ...

Maria Sharapova

Women’s Tennis: Equal Pay for Inferior Work

I’ll let you in on a secret jealously guarded by the God of PC: Equal prize money for men and women at the Grand Slam tennis tournaments is an insult to every principle of ...

Skull and Bones Bonesmen

Remembrance of Yale’s Past

We love Yale sluts! “No” means “yes,” and “yes” means “anal”—that’s the beastly braying cry at Yale these days. The frat boys from Delta Kappa Epsilon (G. W. ...

Philip Roth

Philip Roth: Still Offending the Squares

Even as a septuagenarian, Philip Roth can’t seem to stop offending the kind of people who make it their business to be offended all the damn time. The latest case in point: the ...

Never Stand in the Way of Failure

College kids go through a strange phase where they decide it would be prudent to hang out with a hobo. Sometimes the kid is at the cheapest bar in town and he’s hammered enough ...

May 2011: The Month in Bad Parenting

As May draws to a close, we’d like to set a good example by making public examples of parents who’ve made bad examples of themselves this past month. All right, let’s ...

Planks, But No Planks: The Fatal Idiocy of “Planking”

On the off chance that you lead a remotely fulfilling life and were busy working, studying, or having sex—even alone—on Wednesday, you may have missed the “First Annual ...


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