Danish men come to the rescue

In days of yore, when men were men and women were women and the Byzantine Empire was still a thing, it was a truth universally acknowledged that a single viking in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife—so he’d sail off with a raiding party to find one. Husbands, fathers,…

Apologia pro realitate

I quote it all the time, here and elsewhere, but here once more are the closing lines of G.K. Chesterton’s Heretics: The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a…

Psychopathic Lives Matter

Norman Bates, call your office. If you had “normalization of psychopathy” on your What Fresh Hell Is This bingo card, congratulations! She lives in a way few people know about. Here is Sheila’s life as a psychopath.Anne Funch, Berlingske.dk, March 19 When I tell strangers that I’m a psychopath, I always add: “And on paper….

What a Difference a Car Makes (and the difference is death)

Show me a headline that tells me you’re one of Denmark’s ace U.S. correspondents without telling me you’re one of Denmark’s ace U.S. correspondents. Here’s the best-selling car in Europe and the best-selling in America. Americans are killing each other with giant cars. That’s yesterdau’s Berlingske’s headline over an article by ace U.S. correspondent Mikkel…

Denmark’s Homer

Very few people outside of Denmark have seen or are even aware of the Danish miniseries Matador, which aired in Denmark over four seasons from 1978 to 1981. The series chronicles life in the fictional town of Korsbæk through 24 episodes covering the bumpy years from 1929 through 1947—from the Depression through the occupation of…