The time-honored saying that England’s great battles have been won on the playing fields of Eton is a lot of hooey. Blücher was the real winner against Napoleon at Waterloo, and the only thing he said to Wellington after ...
The Week's Most Offensive, Apprehensive, and Hypertensive Headlines WILL A BLACK MUSLIM HEAD THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE? As further evidence that it remains painfully clueless about what led to its stunning ...
GSTAAD—The pastoral heaven of this place can get very dull during the summer months. Green hillsides, neat farmsteads, pleasing breezes, and meadows bright with wildflowers amid great white-capped mountain peaks are no ...
According to journalist Paul Brian, [Brent] Tarrant’s perceptions and actions are the outgrowth of years of rhetoric that’s portrayed immigrants as “invaders” and the paranoiac tendency to point to numerically ...
I write this while American unmanned flights and 18 American "specialists" are looking for those 200 unfortunate girls abducted by Boko Haram, a group our very own Hillary Clinton had refused to place on a terrorist ...
"Pope calls for global government," read the headlines in early July. Then, as night follows day, the Pope's conservative supporters lined up to eviscerate the media for distorting the Pope's meaning. Those ...
Why are we in the Middle East? Liberals tell us that buying oil from Canada and fracking here are dangerous, but what's more dangerous than war? The Cold War made sense. Communism killed 100 million people and is the ...
A historian (and ex-Marine) friend reacted to Scott Locklin’s essay about the importance of tough manliness: “One of the reasons I hate liberalism is that it is wimp liberalism.” He then adduced the therapeutic ...
Being “the primary architect of hipsterdom” was fun when I was young, but now I’m a wizened old man who just wants to grab a cheap beer in peace. Unfortunately, I made my bed and lying in it means going ...
“[O]nly God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.” —Yeats On television, in the movies, and, most of all, on that vast, unpredictable, freewheeling medium known as the internet, our ...
The other day I behaved badly for once: not very badly (I should hardly have confessed to that), but still worse than I like to think that I normally behave. It was in a busy railway station. I was more than an hour ...
NEW YORK—David Niven’s younger son Jamie, now an old man like yours truly and a bit overweight, approached my table and announced he had seen a video of me lunching elsewhere with two friends. He said this in front of ...
You can"t miss the signs, despite our leaders" reassuring statements, which would have us believe everything is just fine when it is not. The Fed's too spooked to move on interest rates, supertankers float in ...
In Box v. Planned Parenthood, Justice Ginsburg quips that one of Justice Thomas’ footnotes to his opinion “displays more heat than light.” The description is equally true of Thomas’ opinion itself. For, concerned ...
What part do truth and evidence play in our beliefs? A larger part in ours than in those of others, of course, for we are, or at least consider ourselves to be, more rational almost by definition than anyone else. But if we ...
I"m not known as a reliable source of racetrack tips, so if you are headed to Churchill Downs for this Saturday's 138th running of the Kentucky Derby, please don"t take this column as advice to wager heavily on ...
Metropolitan, the 1990 dramedy about a group of chivalrous preppies whose debutante ball after-parties are so articulate and decorous that they might have driven J. Alfred Prufrock to throw a TV out the window like Keith ...
Thirty thousand people—I was tempted to write harridans and harpies, but there must have been some emasculated men among them—have petitioned the Oxford University Press to remove words such as bitch, in the meaning of ...
]It’s Oscar season! Which of course means only one thing: White people are evil. Of course, to be fair, that also applies to rainy season, holiday season, baseball season, football season, blueberry season, duck season, ...
If you've ever wondered how Russia became America's most fearsome enemy, long after that country gave up Communism, gulags, forced starvations and mass murder (all of which liberals were cool with), the answer is: This ...
The Week's Most Barbarian, Contrarian, and Totalitarian Headlines NEW HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP DEEMED A "BIGOT" A self-described Irish Gypsy named Tyson Fury became the world’s new heavyweight boxing champion by ...
The Week’s Most Blazing, Crazing, and Hair-Raising Headlines “WAS IT SOMETHING WE SAID?” Some people are really slow to take a hint. After a thousand years of pogroms, forced expulsions, and a Holocaust, the Jews of ...
The Week's Most Kinetic, Magnetic, and Epigenetic Headlines NATIONAL REVIEW POOPS ON TRUMP National Review magazine is a leading light of the American conservative movement widely known for firing writers the moment they ...
Many people claim that they pay no attention to race, but then along comes the Jeremy Lin story to prove again that most folks do. Wikipedia, that embodiment of 21st-century attitudes, remains diligent about posting most of ...
