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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: ...
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., ...
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 ...
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, "No Babies?" ...
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 ...
The question of whether or not to see "Sex 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 ...
I love politics and movies. So it's probably not surprising that I enjoy political documentaries, like Errol Morris‘s "The Fog of War", a portrait of one of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
During the height of the globalization age in the late 1990s, many leading Zeitgeist watchers were celebrating the rise of the "New Cosmopolitans," a term coined by ...