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:    An orthodox Catholic who mentally assented to official ...

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., a Fourth of July tradition of grotesquerie that is ...

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 Policy and NARAL were handing out prophylactics in the ...

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?"€ is worth considering, if only because it’s one of ...

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 of...mm...six? I saw Sandler last time in "€œ50 First Dates, a ...

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 cocktail of glamour and sentimentality may prove ...

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 leading architects of the Vietnam War, former Defense ...

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 2008 in the new "€œIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the ...

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 professors and why anyone would want to spend his time or ...

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 business reporter G. Pascal Zachary. A new civilization was ...


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