Lauren Booth Turns Toward Mecca

Last month, Tony Blair's half-sister-in-law Lauren Booth announced that she had converted to Islam following "€œa holy experience"€ in Iran. It was the latest ...

Has the Time Come for Jon Stewart to Run for Office?

Two large-scale rallies held the past few months in Washington, D.C., present an interesting contrast. Glenn Beck, an entertainer who poses as a political pundit, held a rally to ...

When Man Invented Science

Pope Benedict’s trip to Ole Blighty is over, and that sanctimonious gasbag Dawkins didn’t manage to arrest him in the name of secular humanism. While I’m not a ...

It’s That Man Again

Adolf Hitler featured so repeatedly and tiresomely in the British newspapers during the late 1930s that the Daily Express ran a story about him under the headline ...

Russians Mine for Gold and an Old Etonian Recalls the U.S.S.R of 1967

Looking back on it now, "€˜lunacy"€™ is the word that springs most readily to mind. It was Easter 1967. I was just sixteen and had signed up to go on a school trip to Russia ...

Evil Intentions, Inheritance Angst, and Postpartum Exhaustion

Dear Delphi, Having grown up a certain way with certain expectations, I am very concerned that my parents are spending my inheritance with great folly at an alarming rate. I fear ...

Hocking Loogies

One of the unintended consequences and, for me, an unanticipated pleasure of the Fox/Cablevision dispute and blackout has been once again listening to baseball on the radio rather ...

Inside Job Documentary Passes

Typical documentaries, such as Waiting for "€œSuperman"€ and Freakonomics, are made by people who know more about lenses and lighting than about their subjects. In contrast, ...

MSNBC: Leaning Forward on the Edge of a Cliff

America's midterm elections are on Tuesday, but they"€™ve already voted for their favorite news network, and it sure as hell ain"€™t the Microsoft/National Broadcasting ...

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Reading The New York Times (So You Don’t Have To)

As I may have mentioned, I have a friend who sends me links to New York Times pieces she thinks I might find interesting. Those occasional snippets aside, I don’t read the ...

Black Tie for Dummies

You know what gets me hot under my Brooks Brothers collar? It's the goofballs who go off the rails into fantasy-land when it comes to formal wear. What do you suppose it means ...

Freakonomics

The new documentary Freakonomics harkens back to the good old days of 2005. Remember when economists, having permanently perfected the economy, graciously allowed their attention ...

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Dried-Up, Chatted-Out, Dirty, and Hungover

Dear Delphi, I am a 65-year-old man. I just got my 2nd divorce. I was wondering: Do I have any chance of getting another girl on a budget (I spent quite a bit on Wife Number ...

Multiculturalism is Dead, So Where Do We Bury the Body?

I"€™ll never forget a painting I saw at a West Berlin youth hostel in 1985. The background depicted bombed-out ruins, presumably Dresden after the Allied firestorm. In the ...

Christopher Hitchens: Party Pooper

The recent study that showed atheists know more about religion than believers says tomes about the whole debate. Christians aren"€™t in it for the details. They"€™re in it for ...

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The Passing Scene

I don"€™t care that Mel Gibson lost it a little.  He is still one of the best actors in a generation - And I would rather have dinner with him than Sean Penn any day. If ...


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