No doubt it is rather peculiar, but whenever I see a grain of rice left on a plate, or a few crumbs scattered on a tablecloth, I think of those who were taken prisoner by the ...

There was an article recently in The Washington Post that suggested that the great footballer Lionel Messi might do more for his sport (soccer) and his fame if he were less ...

With his new science-fiction satire Mickey 17, South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho is back with his first movie since he swept the Academy Awards for 2019 with his lucid-looking ...

They say that laughter is the best medicine. Personally, I prefer penicillin. If you found that joke funny, then I may very well just have saved you from suicide. If you ...

H.L. Mencken once said that no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public, but the American public of his time was full of Lorenzos the Magnificent by ...

All knowledgeable persons are knowledgeable alike. All ignorant persons are ignorant in their own way. So I discovered during the days when, as a former high school English ...

Notwithstanding their evident differences, Britain and France are very similar in their juridico-political idiocies. Perhaps idiocy is not quite the right word, insofar as there ...

I gotta admit, Joy Reid was indeed blindsided when she was fired from MSNBC this week. How could she possibly have seen this cancellation coming? Sure, by the end, she was down to ...

If there was a street near you that was filled with Muslim immigrants raping all the women, who would you blame? The Muslims, or the street? The French city of Nantes is ...

Booze and antibiotics may not be the best cocktail for a column. But hey, that’s the fun. A week ago I bit down on an M&M peanut and it sliced through the soft tissue beneath ...

Last December saw the twentieth anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami that killed 230,000 across Southeast Asia. Seeing the emotive scenes of carnage, devastation, and death ...

All things considered—my age, for example, and my unhealthy lifestyle—I have little, physically, to complain of. My only real problem is osteoarthritis of my hands, now ...

With the left depressed in 2025, much of the cultural energy belongs to the right. But where’s it going to go? One increasing possibility appears to be that newly ...

London, 1911. Two proper gentlemen meet for an ale. “With this land grant and generous endowment by the Brothers Wilks—who stomp the earth to extract petrol for lamps and ...

A British court has just made a surprising judgment. According to reports, David Spencer, a 56-year-old soccer fan, was convicted and fined £1,375 for hurling racial abuse at a ...

One of the characteristics of the present age, no doubt a consequence of the expansion of tertiary education beyond the capacity of people to benefit from it, is the prevalence of ...