10 Things I Learned About the South

In 1831, Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville came to America. Four years later, he published an outsider's perspective of the culture that remained the gold standard for exactly 176 ...

Lynda Benglis

Art: Scene and Unseen

Thursday night is opening night at the Chelsea galleries in New York. But, an art opening is not a good place to look at art because there are too many distractions. Nor is it is ...

Araki

No Sex Please, We’re Japanese

Last week was the 70th anniversary of the Café de Paris bombing during the London Blitz of 1940-41. By March of 1941 most Londoners had learned to take shelter underground when ...

Barbarians at the Gate

GSTAAD—I’ve got the end-of-season blues. I know I say this every year, but this has been a particularly fun winter, with friends throwing goodbye parties, dinners, and lunches ...

Mia Wasikowska

An Agreeably Plain Jane Eyre

The latest movie adaptation of Jane Eyre is slowly rolling out nationally via art-house theaters, but the plot of Charlotte Brontë's three-volume novel remains wonderfully ...

Gay Old Dad, Secret-Agent Son, and Pesky Pack-Rat Partner

Dear Delphi, I am 25 and my 56-year-old dad, who is still married to my mother, just came out and announced his intention to leave us for his lover"€”his male lover. He was ...

Can Japan Rise Again?

We can thank Providence that the earthquake was not 150 miles closer to Tokyo, else Japan’s dead might number in the millions. Prime Minister Naoto Kan calls it the worst ...

Blacks Rape Preteen Hispanic in Texas, Whites Get Blamed

Over one cruelly protracted evening last November in the tiny Texas town of Cleveland"€”up in the ragged piney woods fifty miles northeast of the giant flying-cockroach ...

10 Reasons Not to Go on a Disney Cruise

Online reviews for Disney Cruises read like effusive testimonials from someone who has been healed by the Lord's power. But after returning from the Disney Magic cruise with my ...

Rango: Johnny Depp’s Peyote Western

The audience laughed hyperactively throughout the trailers for upcoming animated blockbusters. "€œDo talking-animal movies always have extra-long previews?"€ my wife ...

Carla Bruni Sarkozy

Beyond Bruni

The novelty of a model-turned-singer-turned-First Lady of France has long vanished. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy could almost be overlooked. There is little to criticize, given her poise ...

Louis Farrakhan

Listening to Louis

Churchgoing New Englanders in the early settlements normally heard two sermons every Sunday"€”one in the morning and another in the afternoon, each at least two hours long. ...

Starry-Eyed Other Woman, Mean-Spirited Mother-in-Law, and Falsely Accused Husband

Dear Delphi, I am the other woman. I have been seeing this older married man for about three months. I really like him and he says he really likes me, but he never talks about ...

Celebrity Child-Support Sweepstakes

Over the past few days the Greatest Show on Earth has rolled into town. This carnival is complete with its very own troop of freaks, and its ringmaster is cad-about-town Charlie ...

Women and Democracy in the Middle East

One of Israel's finest journalists, Gideon Levy, wrote in the daily Haaretz, "€œJust as there is no such thing as a partial pregnancy, there is no such thing as a partial ...

Reverend Fred Phelps

The Inalienable Right to Hate Fags

Based on their entertainment value alone, I believe that the Phelps family of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church deserves First Amendment protection. For entirely different reasons, ...


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