Hate Speech
Guess Who’s Coming to LunchIn John Guare’s play Six Degrees of Separation, a young black con man traduces his |
Vile Bodies
Trying to Lead a Whore to CultureMy friend Mark Brennan and I were talking about class warfare. “It’s cyclical,” |
PC World
Thought Police on the Tennis CourtHere we go again, sports fans! During a recent tennis match between two professionals |
Moolah
An Envious Europe Looks WestWhen the bloated and declawed Las Vegas casino-money recipient Newt Gingrich had some |
Middle East
Syria’s False RevolutionA couple of weeks ago I wrote in this here mag about Syria. I played it safe. My point |
Europe
Charge Them With Corruption!I was sad to read that the Attikon Cinema on Stadiou Street in central Athens was |
Middle East
Why Assad Has SurvivedAs I watched last week’s Western posturing after the Russo-Chinese veto of the UN |
Afternoon Delight
Ship of CowardsIt wasn’t Italy’s finest hour. Not even Gabrielle D’Annunzio—poet, patriot, |
Media
The World’s Most Dishonest NewspaperWhen I was last in the Big Bagel (as I call Noo Yawk), a policeman who’d been awarded |
High Life
Receiving Oral at DelphiI flew to Delphi to consult with the oracle, and the old girl had a lot to say about |
Christendom
The Folly of DisbeliefA reader has registered surprise that I am not an atheist. I am surprised that he’s |
High Life
Once Upon a Time on the RivieraA recent libel case won by Lady Moore, wife of Sir Roger Moore of James Bond fame, |
High Life
The Spectator’s Simple GeniusThe London Spectator is the oldest weekly magazine of the English-speaking world, a |
Beau Monde
Remembrance of Black American Fugitives PastHearing about the black American fugitive who was caught recently after 40 years on the |
Europe
Roundup of Europe’s MeltdownOK. Things are heating up in the old continent after a boiling summer. October will be |
Beau Monde
Setting the Record Straight on Jackie OJacqueline Kennedy’s oral history is now out, as told to the Kennedy courtier cum |
Europe
The Vicious Circle of Greek PoliticsMost people in America don’t realize that Greece is a very new country—its |
Cultural Caviar
That Magical SeptemberOn September 1, 1957, a pretty French girl by the name of Patricia and an Italo-French |
Obit
Freud Slips Into the VoidI’ve had a longstanding instinctive loathing of those who perpetrate gimmick art, a |
Scandal
Inappropriate Touching Among the UntouchablesWe all know that the rich and powerful are seldom held accountable. Take, for example, |
Remembrance
Better a Hero Than a CelebrityI first met Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor in the summer of 1977 in Corfu. I was onboard |
Israel
Pre ‘67 Borders or BustIsrael – Palestine – President Obama finally articulated last night what we’ve |
Vile Bodies
Liberal IndigestionSome thirty years or so ago, my friend P. J. O’Rourke came to dinner at my New York |
Afternoon Delight
No Flowers for Charlie SheenGone are the days when I used to wear a tux to go see a Broadway show. These days I |
Middle East
The Middle East for DummiesLet’s play the “What If?” game for a minute. What if I had written this column in |
Human Rights
Body-Waxing at the United NationsRemember the old cliché about someone who is perpetually vacillating between a necktie |
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