While none of my blood is (sadly) Italian, my arrival in Rome was the closest experience to a homecoming I think I shall ever have. I expect that feelings will stir as I visit the island, Unije, from which my grandfather sailed for NYC in 1916"€”and again at the tomb of my ancestral sovereigns in ...

Arriving in Rome, I didn’t suffer from culture but sticker shock. Streets jammed with pedestrians menaced by whizzing cars and importuned by panhandlers, where dogs are more common than kids, and most people aren’t speaking English… to a native of New York, this is all familiar ...

Today’s Florida primary is said to be make or break for Rudolph Giuliani. The question is how he does among his natural constituencies: * Can enough Cuban Republicans in Miami be convinced (given their group’s Cold War era special immigration status) that they somehow benefit from the ...

I must admit I was taken aback by the hostile reactions I received last week for offering an enthusiastic endorsement of the Web site VDare.com"€”albeit one in which I included mild caveats concerning three VDare writers (Brenda Walker, Jared Taylor, and Kevin MacDonald), whose views I do not ...

As you read this, I will be shuffling through a series of planes, trains and automobiles from the glittering, patriotic sprawl of Dallas, Texas to the involuted warrens of once-pagan, then-papal, now neo-pagan Rome. Once I’m there, I will be tagging along for the next few months on a series ...

When I read that a conspiracy of leftist students and secular professors who claim that they are still traumatized by the Galileo trial—what a pack of flaccids, no wonder they’ve got such a low birth-rate—had successfully censored a talk by Pope Benedict XVI at their university in ...

Today is the worst day of the year. And so it is, every year. Other grim occasions pass me by with much less collateral damage"€”the death-days of each of my parents, the anniversaries of Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Armistice Day, Kristallnacht, Bastille Day. Even Good Friday (a moveable fast), ...

Today we remember a great man who died to uphold universal, timeless values. I mean, of course, King Louis XVI"€”murdered at the hands of ultranationalist Jacobins (no, I don"€™t mean neocons) 215 years ago today. Instead of repeating myself, I"€™ll direct you to my best attempt to explore ...

My old friend Rod Dreher recently opined on Belief.net that it was inappropriate for Gov. Huckabee to claim he was defending the Confederate flag—in an attempt to outflank John McCain, who flip-flopped on the issue and landed (of course) on the side of the journalists who adore him and the ...

So there we were, at the storied Elaine’s restaurant, Taki, R. Emmet Tyrell, Lewis Lapham, and several other luminaries… but I couldn’t help feeling (sorry, Taki) that the most important man at the table was Peter Brimelow—the courageous journalist, formerly of Forbes and ...