The Prince’s Wedding Present

When the modern-day eminences grises in grey suits from St. James’s gave the nod of approval to William and Kate’s marriage, only the most hardened cynics were heard ...

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The Multicultural Cringe

This week’s storm in a teacup was when Chinese pianist Lang Lang played the Chinese song “My Motherland” at a US state dinner for visiting Chinese functionaries. ...

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The Way Back: Hollywood Discovers the Gulags

To be Oscar-eligible, a movie had to have played for one week last year in Southern California. Last Christmas, I had looked forward to heading down to the ArcLight on Sunset ...

Drunk Teens, Pregnant Teens, the Prodigal Hubby, and a Real Barnburner

Dear Delphi, I am a single dad and this morning I found my cute, sweet, 17-year-old daughter passed out in the driver’s seat in our driveway. I am scared to death and ...

The Philadelphia Horror: How Mass Murder Gets a Pass

Let’s give the “climate of hate” rhetoric a rest for a moment. It’s time to talk about the climate of death, in which the abortion industry thrives ...

“€˜O”€™ Predicts the Future, Scotland Burns & Roses Bloom on Park Ave

Plus, Jane Fonda blogs, a Beatlemaniac opens his own museum, and actors celebrate ...

Mr. Assange’s Digital McCarthyism

Upon superficial inspection, still-living superstar hacker Julian Assange and long-dead commie-stalker Joseph McCarthy seem like natural-born enemies and political polar ...

Aging More Gracefully Than England

As I write these words and watch them grow into sentences, I am living the final hours of my fifties. By the time you read this, I"€™ll be sixty years old. Or, as French and ...

Miss…or Mr. America?

The 2011 Miss America contest provides an object lesson in the decline of American femininity. Consider the winner: This poor little girl has so physically abused herself at 17 ...

Genomics: China’s New Killer App

This week’s state visit by Hu Jintao, China’s “president”"€”I prefer to say “head apparatchik,” since “president” implies an ...

Crazy Son, Catfighting In-Laws, and the Perils of Puttin”€™ Pussy on a Pedestal

Dear Delphi, I have offered my daughter-in-law all sorts of economic bribes: private school for her children, an all-expenses-paid vacation"€”even a free house"€”but nothing ...

Hoping Against Hope in Detroit

"€œWe"€™re coming back,"€ beamed current Detroit mayor and former Detroit Pistons All-Star Dave Bing last Tuesday as he launched a privately funded $10-million ad campaign ...

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 ...

Welcome Back, Kotter 2011

There are really two New Yorks. There's the one Giuliani cleaned up where you can walk around Times Square all night without running into so much as a jaywalker. Then there's East ...

In the Navy!”€”With Gobs of Seamen!

Guess what"€”many gays aren"€™t offended at all by the scandalous USS Enterprise video.  On the contrary, one LGBT website ("€œThe Site with Homosexual Tendencies"€) ...

Clarence Dupnik

The Worst Sheriff in America

There are many heroes who showed indomitable courage and grace under fire during this weekend’s horrific Tucson massacre. Blowhard Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was ...


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