Europe Before 1820: The Apex of Human History or Bangladesh?

Each time I doubt that the National Review's mavens could surpass themselves, I discover fresh evidence of their invincible ignorance. Being a man of little faith, I didn"€™t ...

Behavioral Guidelines for New German Immigrants

In Germany, much of the talk these days is about immigration and integration. It all started when former Bundesbank board member Thilo Sarrazin published a book in which he claims ...

Rest in Peace, Dear Elaine

The death of anyone well known - especially in New York - invokes more clichés than you know what draws flies in summer. Every obituary I read about Elaine included the words, ...

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The Virtue of Selective Mourning

Funny things happen when you write for the public prints. One of them is that deep-browed pieces you labored over for days, with library visits and lengthy phone conversations ...

Naked Men in National Museums

What in the name of Gilbert Stuart is going on at the National Portrait Gallery? A week ago, CNSNews’ Penny Starr reignited the culture war with an arresting story about ...

Airport Cavity Searches, Socially Respectable Violence, and the Eternal Gold-Digger

Dear Delphi, The other day I was in the airport and became an unlucky recipient of the enhanced pat-down procedure; they touched my breasts and inside my legs, looking for bombs. ...

Julian Assange’s Honey Trap: That’s Rape in Sweden

Julian Assange of Wikileaks infamy was arrested in England today. But it isn"€™t for espionage"€”his Interpol "€œred notice"€ made no mention of the hundreds of thousands ...

Black Swan: Hysterical, But Not Necessarily Funny

What's the most demanding sport? A 1975 Journal of Sports Medicine study by James Nicholas, an NFL, NBA, and NHL team doctor, ranked 61 sports on 18 different measures of physical ...

The Gospel of John and Mark

Their brush with one another was the paradigmatic encounter between the Celebrity and the Nobody, the “have” and the “have-not” of the postmodern age, an ...

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Did FDR Engineer Pearl Harbor?

As a history buff, I have tried to come to terms with the “surprise” Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. That lugubrious anniversary"€”December 7th"€”is fast ...

Playboy’s Randy Auction, Daft Punk Scores Tron & a Princely Tell-All

Plus, Mark Wahlberg is The Fighter, the Guggenheim's holiday classic, and the stunning new Pirelli ...

Have Condoms Penetrated the Catholic Church?

The pope said that condom use to prevent the transmission of HIV is "€œa first step in a movement toward a different way, a more humane sexuality."€ This admission is the ...

No Child’s Fat Behind: Palin Dumps on Michelle Obama’s Youth Obesity Scheme

Last week, in her inimitably cornpone, hokey, chipper, toothy, gosh-darnit, you’re-darn-tootin’ manner, Sarah Palin slammed Michelle Obama's scheme to slim the ...

The Pleasures of Travel

The great reactionary novelist Evelyn Waugh owned a country house in Combe Florey, southwest England. Among the furnishings was a set of three paintings under the collective title ...

All That Glitters is Not Gold (A Cautionary Tale in Two Parts)

Part II Last week I wrote about my memorable-albeit-disagreeable encounter with one Daniel C. Leghorn in Bemelman's bar at New York's Carlyle hotel. It was there where, fortified ...

Vasectomies, Man-Boobs, and Much Much More…

Dear Delphi, I want my husband to get a vasectomy. I don"€™t want to die before him and have him remarry some young hussy and have more children. I think this is more than ...


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