Hollywood

Dark Shadows: Not Gay, Just Fey

In Tom Stoppard’s 1982 drama The Real Thing, a middle-aged playwright and his...

Tim Burton and Johnny Depp
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War

Last Letters

Last Letters

“I want you to shoot me,” he said. He must have been joking. It was a struggle...

Living the Dream

Italy’s Suicide Epidemic: Perfectly Understandable

Italy’s Suicide Epidemic: Perfectly Understandable

Europe’s crisis is existential and economic. Here in Italy the talk is of suicide....

PC World

It’s in Their Culture

It’s in Their Culture

We are endlessly told that white people are racist and that white men are sexist. But...

Commerce

Space: The Final Market

Space: The Final Market

If all goes as planned, May 19 will see the SpaceX ship blast off to resupply the...

PC World

The PC Gods Must Be Crazy

The PC Gods Must Be Crazy

Every time a human sacrifice is made to appease the gods of political correctness,...

2012 Election

The Antietam of the Culture War

The Antietam of the Culture War

It took Joe Biden’s public embrace of same-sex marriage to smoke him out. But after...

Derbtown

Ridding Myself of the Day

Ridding Myself of the Day

I read a novel over the weekend. It was Émile Zola’s 1880 bestseller Nana. A few...

Education

How Black Studies Avoids Studying Blacks

How Black Studies Avoids Studying Blacks

Another day, another person fired from a prestigious writing gig for perceived...

Conservatism

It’s Hard to Win When You’re Playing Against the Referee

It’s Hard to Win When You’re Playing Against the Referee

The Italian political theorist and longtime socialist journalist Carlo Galli recently...

Hollywood

The Avengers: Kicking Ass and Selling Tickets

The Avengers: Kicking Ass and Selling Tickets

It was a bad weekend for Nicolas “The American in Paris” Sarkozy but a great...

Superstardumb

Tinsleytown

Tinsleytown

Judging from last week’s comments, there are not many Kardashian fans here on...

Taki TV

The Son of Julia

The Son of Julia