I spot idiots instantly. I became a sociologist to be able to detect them in herds. I can smell them from hundreds of kilometers away. And as soon as I see them coming, I make sure to identify them: true…
If you thought Paul Krugman was a bad economic analyst, wait until you see how he does as a political analyst. Lately he has devoted several articles in the New York Times to accusing Trump of being a liar, but…
I started my career in music journalism in the Stone Age. And I started it by founding a magazine dedicated to one of my passions, Spanish pop. The magazine was and is called Popes80.com (if you are learning Spanish and…
We are entering the season of crazy offers that will take us all the way to Christmas, where I guess everything will be expensive enough to compensate for today’s discounts. The competition to offer all sorts of products at the…
Judith Pamela Butler, that’s her name, represents everything that is wrong with the world. In any minimally enlightened era, her subjectivist quackery would have died in academic ostracism, the extravagance of the departmental loony in some remote and decadent university….
It is quite likely that the UN secretary general has not read my book I Will Not Eat Crickets but, if he has, he certainly has not understood it. I devoted a whole chapter to laughing at him because he…
The life of a terrorist is getting more and more complicated. There used to be a time when an honest-to-God part-time terrorist could kill innocent people and wake up the next day still dreaming of having succeeded in wiping out…
Every year when the school season starts I remember that I was a lousy student in school until I got to college and was finally able to study what I wanted. The fundamental reason was disinterest and my youthful eagerness…
There is something almost esoteric about the importance most people attach to the fact that someone they know announces that they will change the direction of their expected vote. When a Democrat turns pro-Trump or when a Republican announces that…
