If Giorgio Vasari is the godfather of art history, James Brown is the godfather of soul, and Marlon Brando is the godfather, then Jonathan Swift is surely the godfather of satire. That is not to say ...

In 1729, Jonathan Swift wrote a revolutionary proposal to ease the suffering of the Irish working class. His essay “A Modest Proposal” provided a commonsense solution to his era’s major issues. Today, ...

Take all the medals away, lay bare the fallen warrior's chest. Put a new medal there: For Valor in the War of Sex. Add the general's corpse to the endless pile our hypocrisy and denial generates: ...

It’s no secret that Americans are deeply divided this election year. Yet we pretty much agree on what the issues are. In poll after poll, people on both sides of the partisan divide put immigration, ...

COMMENT | Some three centuries ago, Jonathan Swift, the Anglo-Irish satirist and author of “Gulliver’s Travels” wrote an essay: “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being ...