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 ...

The Ugliest Yacht in the World

Friedrich Nietzsche observed, “it requires more genius to spend than to acquire”"€”making money being a question of diligence and cunning, wasting it a matter of ...

Free the Cognitive Dissidents

I’ve never been one for ruthless consistency. I learned young the fine art of emotional doublethink, from the experience of being at one and the same time:    ...

Freedom from shame?

My Southern suspicion that New England is full of crazy people gained another exhibit for the prosecution last week.  The “Parade of Horribles” in Beverly, Mass., ...

Rules for Radicals

I reported to registration to receive my official totebag, T shirt, and condoms. In the bustle, I was only able to grab three packs, but luckily, Students for a Sensible Drug ...

Only the Feminists Can Save Europe!

One probably shouldn"€™t look to the New York Times for analysis of the ongoing Death of the West; however, Russell Shorto's latest article in the Magazine, "€œNo Babies?"€ ...

Israel’s Big Dick

I"€™m not a great fan of Adam Sandler who always seems to be doing an impersonation of Jerry Lewis, whose shtick as a juvenile retard I had enjoyed until about the age ...

It’s All About Her

The question of whether or not to see "€œSex and the City"€ is easy to answer: if you are a man, no. There is nothing here for you. If you are a woman, still no. The sugary ...

The Evil of Banality

I love politics and movies. So it's probably not surprising that I enjoy political documentaries, like Errol Morris‘s "€œThe Fog of War"€, a portrait of one of the ...

Indiana Jones and the Legend of the Cold War

Indiana Jones was born in 1899 which would make him 102-year old on September 11, 2001 and which explains why he couldn"€™t be taking part in the war against Islamo-Fascism in ...

Real Men Don”€™t Get Tenure

As someone who wasted a few years of his life teaching in undistinguished academic institutions, I could never figure out why Hollywood would bother making movies about college ...

Global Hybrids Go Home

During the height of the globalization age in the late 1990s, many leading Zeitgeist watchers were celebrating the rise of the "€œNew Cosmopolitans,"€ a term coined by ...


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