Advertising is Rape

Just in case you hadn"€™t noticed, ladies, you are being oppressed, exploited, abused, beaten, enslaved, murdered and raped. This evil is being perpetrated by the patriarchy, ...

Consumer Kids and Their Plastic Lives

I went to Bath & Body Works at the mall one morning just before the Christmas shopping season. There I was, an adult with a good job and a career, and I was scrounging for ...

Of Mistresses and Misplaced Outrage

She calls herself "€œMelissa Beech,"€ and if we take her thumbnail biography at face value, she's a college senior, living in Philadelphia"€”and living in lavish style, ...

The Death of AIDS

This weekend I attended an engrossing production of The Seagull on Broadway"€”and I was lucky enough to be accompanied by the intelligent and beautiful great granddaughter of ...

Men Are Bottle Rockets; Women are Cuckoo Clocks

I’m working on too many speculative projects—and putting off the one that I’m sure would sell the best. Since I fear I’ll never get around to writing the ...

A Quantum of Relevance

The classic interpretation of Ian Fleming's James Bond character is that he stands as a kind of fantasy of Britishness the British people, and especially the elite, could indulge ...

Socialism and Secession

One of my favorite things to learn about Sarah Palin was her ties to the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants their state to secede from the United States. Said the ...

Friends Whom I Dislike

It's funny to see John McCain realize, so late in the game, that he really does want to be president"€”even more than he wants the editors of Washington monthlies to admire him. ...

Zucker’s Folly

Having seen "€œAmerican Carol"€ on the basis of James Hirsen's glowing review on Newsmax I am still reacting to this flick's neoconservative message with a queasy stomach. ...

Anti-Fascist Airplane!

The Two Minutes of Hate began in Ballston before the movie even began, when the previews of Oliver Stone's W. hit the screen.  My brief speculation as to the political ...

Hot Air

For every call or email I’ve ever received pointing out that conservative talk radio is “just entertainment,” I have received dozens upon dozens more responses ...

Almost Famous

Last week in this space I was grossly unfair to a vast swathe of our country, one of America’s most hard-working and patriotic regions. In mocking the Midwest as ...

Morality Tales

Suggesting that movie director Woody Allen, who has abandoned the Big Apple and is residing in Europe now, has been transformed from a New York Liberal into a Continental ...

I Really Wanted to Believe, but…

If you believe The Truth is Out There, then I highly recommend that you avoid the latest “X-Files” movie , stay in, and read Tom Piatak’s fantastic article on ...

Why I don”€™t believe in Harvey Dent

Halfway through my sophomore year of high school I was overwhelmed by an impulse to become more traditionally feminine, which I satisfied by getting a job in the children’s ...

Batman”€”Anarcho-Fascist or Unassimilated Jew?

The most enduring superheroes"€”Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America among them"€”were all born in Lower East Side at some point between 1938-1944. Their creators ...


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