These Crazy Pills Taste Like Sour Grapes

It's difficult to know which part of me to trust these days: my intuition or my own lying eyes. The glut of "€œfake news"€ filling the web doesn"€™t make it any easier. ...

How the Left Strangled Itself With Identity Politics

Still scratching their pointy heads over losing an election they were certain that history had preordained them to win, the Democrats are blaming everything except their own ...

Chris Evans as Captain America

Celebrity Meltdowns

What are all these celebrities still doing here? Didn"€™t they promise us they were gone if Trump won? So many of them said they were heading to Canada, street artist Sabo ...

Hillary Clinton

Are You Ready for Four Years of Ball-Busting?

This essay is intended solely for our male readership. Our three female readers can sit this one out. Go bake us a pie or knit us a sweater or something. Men: If Hillary Clinton ...

Blind Commitment

You can get angry with machines, especially when you haven"€™t the faintest idea how they work. They seem to break down out of spite, just at the wrong moment; it is as if they ...

From Orwell to Gladwell and Back

In politics, secrecy and silence are becoming less practical, while noise and distortion are coming to dominate. Thus, the 2016 election raises questions of how strategies of ...

Norma by Vincenzo Bellini - original cast

A Night at the Opera

It often seems to me that the first qualification for producers of operas these days is proneness to severe lapses of taste, a kind of epilepsy of the judgment, or even a complete ...

Life de Bois

From time to time I receive invitations by e-mail to attend conferences on something called medical leadership. "€œDo you want to be a leader?"€ ask the invitations, to which ...

Paradise Lost

The Bible tells us that our allotted span is threescore years and ten. Advances in medicine and public health"€”sanitation, for example"€”have made nonsense of this in the ...

Identity Crisis

I have a confession to make: I enjoy reading New York Times columnist David Brooks. (Wait, don"€™t hit the "€œback"€ button on your browser yet! I have a good point to ...

Hotel Negresco, Nice

Glitz and Gore

The Negresco is a beautiful rococo belle epoque hotel built around the turn of the last century on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, south of France. Even by today's plebeian ...

University of Washington

Liabilities of Liberalism

"€œLiberalism,"€ James Burnham once wrote, "€œis the ideology of western suicide."€ Writers on the right find it fashionable to cite Burnham's decree. In an era when ...

OJ and Nicole Simpson

The President’s Prejudices

Why do the human sciences record pervasive behavioral differences among racial groups, such as in violent-crime rates? One explanation is that these disparities originate in ...

Globalization Is a Monster

Most of us can agree that Karl Marx got it wrong. It wasn"€™t only that the Revolution didn"€™t come in the advanced industrial and capitalist countries as he expected but in ...

When Heroes Are Villains

We have reached peak topsy-turvy. Whatever is up is down, whatever is good is bad, and whatever you should be proud of should bring shame. Heroes are villains in this day and age ...

Surrendering to Death

Eagles of Death Metal recently finished a Canadian tour and I got to sit down with vocalist Jesse Hughes and discuss the Bataclan attack in Paris that killed 89 of his fans. ...


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