One oddity of discourse is that novel phrases seem more likely to catch on if their meanings are opaque than if they are self-evident. Having to know a semisecret code makes phrases such as “motte and bailey argument” more popular, ...

Everyone else wants the names of the FBI officials who approved the unprecedented law enforcement dragnet against low-level Trump aides in the middle of a presidential campaign. I want the names of the staffers at the Republican ...

Life is full of irritations, major and minor. One of the minor irritations is the activity of the Sock Fairy, the sprite who seems to inhabit all washing machines, at least all that I have ever owned. However careful I am to put only ...

Which trait most accounts for the spectacular career of Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic’s race blogger–turned–intellectual superstar? Coates, widely assumed to be America’s foremost public thinker, has published yet another ...

Move over, Muhammad; you’re no longer the only sacred icon that can’t be drawn as a cartoon. Black people are now on the small and exclusive list of things that will spark an instantaneous jihad if sketched by an artist. And the ...

I"€™m not a fan of Mexican food, for reasons which should be obvious. Although I hold Mexicans in the highest esteem as a proud and noble (if exceedingly short) people, they tend to score poorly on standardized tests and have never ...

Bill Nye became famous in the 1990s with a PBS kids"€™ show called Bill Nye The Science Guy. His new series for Netflix is called Bill Nye Saves the World. See the difference there? The title of the first show suggests objectivity. ...

This is a story of love, hate, interracial romance, journalistic malpractice, and anti-Semitic bomb hoaxes. It involves a young black man named Juan, whose mother named him that because Juan was enough"€”just kidding! Juan is an ...

If you"€™re baffled by a women's march that excluded thousands of women and was run by an extremist Muslim, well then you “literally just can"€™t even,” which is basically, like, WHATEVER! This was not a women's march ...

Get your red pill ready"€”the Matrix is real. At least that's what a bunch of tech nerds think. Two high-dollar Silicon Valley investors are paying scientists mondo bucks to figure out if we"€™re living in a computer-generated ...

America is obsessed with keeping black women happy. The bigotry of low expectations is strong with the treatment of black men, but when it comes to they baby mommas, shit is off the chain. When Valerie Jarrett showed up for work as ...

No matter what one may think of transvestites trannies transsexuals transgender people, it’s hard to deny that they are tremendous entertainers. Few other allegedly oppressed identity groups can provide such topnotch excitement as ...