I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious... →
Meghan O'Rourke
It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female... →
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death... →
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery... →
P. J. O'Rourke
The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in... →
Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size... →
You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and... →
In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.
Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.