A Godfrey New Year
All I had to do was give myself a colonic with a turkey baster and a sachet of organic miso soup, and I was ready to embark on my metaphysical quest
Life
Friday
Monday
After the Americans
The SDF look like city hipsters in an Arab village, blasting Kurdish revolutionary music from civilian cars
Saturday
In the cart of the city
‘The new owners employ Army vets for a few dollars a day to sit by a van in case an inspector comes’
Thursday
Burning Christianity
Europe’s churches are under attack
Tuesday
Headlines of the coming year
Trump Tweet Hints At Displeasure With Lawyer ‘Rudy Is A Great Guy But He Is Making Trump Look Evil And Should Stop Going On TV NOW!!!’
Monday
The culture war is lost
Americans are learning to live in a post-Christian age
Wednesday
Christmas greatness: a Yuletide sermon
Christmas is under attack. It has to be defended
Godfrey Elfwick’s Nativity drama
I’m dreaming of a woke Chr*stm*s
Tuesday
American English must be the most carelessly spoken and written dialect on Earth
Part of the problem is sheer mental and physical laziness
White Christmas: the magic of the festive drugs binge
Among partying druggies, the trust that has disappeared from every level of society is fully present
Monday
The joy of spending Christmas alone
I learned it’s frowned upon to say things like Christmas carols make me want to blow my brains out
Sunday
Let Utah be Utah
I dig the Mormons and even pull for Brigham Young University’s football team
Saturday
Digby Dent on lawn darts in winter
Taking a doughy-handed son of privilege and making him clubbable doesn’t happen by magic
My wild Key West
I have never been anywhere where the sea has such beautiful colors that change so rapidly
Tuesday
Notes on…bridge
I am a very demanding partner and, sometimes, unpleasant competition
Friday
Michael Wolff is working on ‘nothing’
A surprising number of my contemporaries have children who are stand-up comics
Saturday
My morning with Black Lives Matter UK
By the time I was 12, I was listening to Bob Marley while memorizing Dr King
Tuesday
Fashion victims: how feminists are betraying Muslim women
In the West, hierarchies of collective privilege and victimhood are more important than individual rights
Monday
The ‘Russians’ of Brighton Beach
The attitude of Jewish ‘Russians’ in America toward Russia is goodbye and good luck. But mostly goodbye
Wednesday
Daddy issues: the fatherhood revolution has failed
It would be hard to argue that today’s teenagers have emerged happier than the generation raised by distant dads
