But of our work, the work of our order and in particular the work of this monastery, a part"€”indeed, the substance"€”is study, and the preservation of knowledge. Preservation ...

Welcome to 2015, the year that speaking and writing freely had to stop. Anything that might cause trauma to anyone of any race except the white one will be expunged, and the ...

When I read about Joan Rivers"€™ death, my eyes welled up with stinging tears. Not because she"€™d died (come on: she was 81) but in anticipation of the mouthwatering ...

I generally don’t care about the Middle East, but since no one ever seems to shut the fuck up about it for more than five minutes, I will state for the record that I think ...

My version of Proverbs 30:18"€“19 goes: There are three things that I do not understand: the success of Al Jolson, the popularity of Milton Berle, and the appeal of Archie ...

So there's a frickin"€™ rape quilt now. Remember the AIDS quilt? Back in the 1980s, gays swiped another quaint, wholesome, colorful thing (rainbows, anyone?) to trick us into ...

Writing in The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates"€”you can thank his Black Panther dad for giving him that self-segregating first name"€”recently penned a sprawling essay called ...

Though Malaysia Airlines flights have a tendency to get lost, American Airlines is infinitely reliable, and the business class on their new A319s feels like you"€™re sitting in ...

Male readers who live and work in estrogen-rich environments may beg to differ, but it looks like women’s menstrual cycles may not sync up after all. (Amusingly, it’s ...

As Marx famously noted, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” But before said “history” gets to repeat itself, it has to be born. ...

Chutzpah. I believe that’s the word for it. Just days after learning the Americans have been tapping her phones and taping her conversations, Angela Merkel has been ...

The Graduate, the December 1967 box-office smash starring newcomer Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock and Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson, is often recounted as a major volley in ...

I’ve heard it all my life: “If some pervert ever laid a hand on my kid, I’d kill them!” Yet how frequently is such blowhardiness translated into action? ...

I despise Anthony Weiner, and not just because he is protected by pals at The New York Times. All one has to do is look at this hideous freak and suddenly all the world's ...

Unite the Beards is a new and remarkably naïve organization that wants to bring hipsters and Hasidic Jews together. They"€™re based here in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the ...

Observing the noxious media aftermath following last week's Boston Marathon bombings, it has become abundantly clear that we, as a nation, need to start racially profiling liberal ...