Sydney Sweeney has brought boobs back
Yay! Boobs are back! Sydney Sweeney made engagement farming easy with her cleavage-revealing curtain call this past weekend as the…
America is too fat for another civil war
Pundits and YouTubers these days love to warn of the inevitable civil war, as they sit in their comfortable, air-conditioned…
Bowling Alone reads like a nostalgic look at the good ol’ days
In the Phetasy.com book club, we recently read the famous social science tome, Bowling Alone, by Robert Putnam. In it he…
The new wave of woman hate
It was in the late 1990s, during then-President Bill Clinton’s scandal, when I first concluded that neither major political party…
Battle cry of the politically listless
As we head into yet another election season, faced with what looks like an inevitable Trump-Biden rematch, it’s hard not…
Why Pride lost the public
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably witnessed the backlash to Pride. There have been mass boycotts of…
In defense of paranoia
Maybe it’s because I grew up during the “stranger danger” milk carton kid era (for those too young to know…
A junkie’s pride
I first quit a substance at the tender age of nineteen, when heroin addiction brought me to my knees within…
Have yourself a very basic Christmas
Humbug! I’ve written before in these pages about how much I loathe Christmas. It’s not just Christmas though: with the exception…
It’s the parallel economy, stupid!
There’s a lot of rumbling about American polarization these days. Sometimes it takes the form of people advocating for a…
Why I’ll never make it in stand-up
I’m an idiot. Because only an idiot decides to seriously pursue stand-up comedy at thirty, which is when I began.…
I regret my promiscuity
Upon opening Louise Perry’s new book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century,…
I apologize for my white baby
I’m here to apologize to my brothers and sisters of color — my white daughter’s pale skin has brought me…
In the valley of the shadow of birth
I was five weeks pregnant when I found out. At that point, it’s nothing more than a little gestational sac…
America needs a 12-step program
When I got sober in October of 2013, my sponsor said many things I didn’t want to hear. One of…
My country, right or left
A funny thing happened to me this Fourth of July and, at the risk of having every jaded member of…
Letter from the online trenches
November 7, 2020 To my dear parents, Victory. Uttering the word feels strange after four long years of battle. But…
Why I won’t vote
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a piece titled ‘The battle cry of the politically homeless’ in which I…
An open letter to the Democratic party
This article is in The Spectator’s inaugural US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. Dear Democrats, I’m mad at you. I was raised…
The battle cry of the politically homeless
Like millions of other Americans, I’m exhausted. But I’m not tired from #Resisting or tired from screaming at a MAGA…
