The main problem with those on the postmodern Left is that they take things too seriously. If they were joking around, getting drunk, and sleeping off hangovers all day, they wouldn’t have time to legislate nonsense and limit freedoms, and…
It isn’t always the turkey who has the hardest time at Thanksgiving. Family gatherings can be lovely or embarrassing. We eat, laugh, drink, and say a lot of silly things. Just like at any U.N. gathering. In every family, there’s…
Halloween has arrived in my neighborhood (try to read it in as dispassionate a voice as possible). I was approached by two short guys in masks — could be kids or not — and with their first “trick or treat”…
An open letter to the community from Andrè Zivaült, assistant professor of Marionette Ventriloquist Puppetry at Harvard University’s Mortimer Snerd School of Puppeteering and Mime Arts. Recently on X, formerly known as Twitter, I wrote the following regarding the Oct….
As August comes to an end, many are forced to face the second-worst thing about a vacation: packing for the return trip. The first worst thing is packing for the outbound trip. The suitcase is an odious modern invention. It…
Some people find summer boring. That’s true. Maybe nothing important is happening, the whole country is immersed in a strange calm, and people are more concerned with their tans than with committing major crimes. Can’t stand this boredom anymore? If…
Since Julius Caesar’s time, science has been unsuccessfully investigating why women wearing tiny bikinis need to set up a military tent in the middle of the beach to change out of their bathing suits. Anthropologists, always enthusiastic about people who…
When great moral-political issues are at stake, U.S. presidents and various leaders worldwide have contemplated boycotting the Olympics. It has happened a number of times with a bunch of nations. The United States boycotted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow…
A book is a stack of sheets of paper bound together with glue or stitching. If it contains lines of writing, we call it a book. If it is blank, it is either a notebook or the world-renowned bestseller Joe…
