At one point in his Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Søren Kierkegaard tells us a joke about a madman who has just broken out of an insane asylum. As he strides down the road, away from the institution, to freedom, the madman thinks to himself:...
In 2000, there was a controversy—which, has been raised again periodically over the course of the last twenty years—about Staffordshire University offering a degree in David Beckham Studies: ostensibly the ultimate Mickey Mouse course, the most...
Amid the sprawling aftermath of the U.S. election, at least one element has flown somewhat under the radar: seven candidates for elected office who have a history of endorsing or promoting QAnon won their races, being elected either to Congress or...
Trump’s existence as a political phenomenon began with him descending a golden escalator in a tower named after himself. It ended—at least for now—with one of the stars of "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" holding a press conference in a garden center...
Last month, the New Statesman published a striking interview with the feminist philosopher and author of Gender Trouble Judith Butler – on gender, trans rights, and how these issues have become broadsheet and social media cause célèbres. The...
I remember reading, years ago, about the last two Jews living in Kabul: the final remnants of a once-proud and thriving community that had called the city home for almost one thousand years; the rest displaced, over the course of the various...
If Joe Biden is elected President, we were told this week, he and his team of wicked socialists will immediately open all the borders; will dismantle all law enforcement; will turn law-abiding, god-fearing citizens over to vicious roaming gangs of...
In my other life, in the other doomed industry I have chosen to dedicate my once promising talents to, I am currently in the process of preparing classes for the university courses I adjunct on. Naturally, this year is ‘going to be a bit different’....