Turning Tricks Into Sympathy

Thirty years ago, a taxi driver in Mexico City taught me, though I cannot remember the exact context in which he did so, some lines from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the learned Mexican nun of the 17th century, a sage and poetess famous not only in Mexico but in Europe. I have never forgotten them because they sum up succinctly many a moral dilemma ...


Elmosexual Panic

If only Romney had campaigned against Elmo instead of Big Bird. Then again, the sordid details of Sesame Street puppeteer Kevin Clash's alleged dalliances with four then-underage boys didn"€™t emerge until after the election. And ...

Dominique Strauss Kahn

The Dirty Old Man and the IMF

Saturday was a bad day for the New World Order. New York police boarded the first-class cabin of an Air France jet bound for Paris to collar Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund, a Grand Master of the ...

How Megachurches Would Profit From Temple Prostitution

Much of international discourse, international politics, is all about how they should become more like us. Quite how they should become more like us depends upon the speaker: if it’s Hillary then more attention should be given to ...

Inhlawulo

I often wonder as to why people are shocked, shocked—Captain Renault-like—to discover that modern football is a malodorous cesspit teeming with leeches and crooks, or that Tony Blair is a congenital liar not worthy of any ...


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