The World’s Favorite Spectator Sport: Watching America Argue With Itself About Free Speech By Our Correspondent Who’s Watched This Rodeo From 42 Different Countries GENEVA — While Americans feverishly debate whether their First Amendment rights extend to shouting racial slurs on social media or refusing to bake cakes for weddings that offend their delicate sensibilities,…
The Thames looked unusually grey this morning, though to be fair it always looks like that. But today the pallor came with extra seasoning: tens of thousands of Londoners stomping across Westminster Bridge in the sort of choreographed outrage that makes the global WhatsApp groups buzz from Lagos to Lima. The trigger? A hasty government…
Howard Stern, the self-proclaimed “King of All Media,” has spent four decades proving that shamelessness is the only renewable resource never subject to sanctions. From a converted Long Island basement to a SiriusXM satellite orbiting somewhere above the equator, his signal ricochets across continents like a cosmic fart in a crowded elevator—impossible to ignore and,…
