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The Steady March of Liberal Hypocrisy

If you’ve lived to reach a certain age and looked closely at the world, you’ve probably noticed how full of crap people are. Indignant when others engage in behaviors that they think are wrong, they are quite willing to ...

Muammar Gaddafi

A Flotilla of Troubles

Another week, another mass drowning of miserable people, another ostentatious lamentation from politicians and pontificators, all the way up to The Pontiff himself. As the author of a novel about sad beachings and European ...

Join the Club

NEW YORK—Christmas partying, like Yule shopping displays, begins much earlier of late. After the lockdown, however, the urge to party and party hard is justified. Like others, I am trying to make up for the missing two ...

City of London

The Great Divide

NEW YORK—“The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money,” screams a Bagel Times headline, as bogus a message as that caricature of a newspaper’s other captions of an antiwhite, anti-cop, anti-male, and ...

An America First Korea Policy

“The North Korean regime is causing tremendous problems and is something that has to be dealt with, and probably dealt with rapidly.” So President Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden this week. But how ...

Resisting Catholicism

They tell me that I"€™m "€œliving the dream"€ because I live in Italy. Well, yes, Italy is quite a country and as I sink my remaining teeth into yet another bruschetta al tartufo at only 10 euros a pop, I do think, ...

The Price of Bravery

Criticizing firefighters in New York City is like saying unicorns are boring and rainbows are gay, so we"€™re going to have to start this with an analogy. Ahem, what if someone saved your life a bunch of years ago and ...

Alberto Giacometti, Chariot

The Real Deal

Aleko Goulandris is my oldest and closest friend. We met in the summer of 1945, at the Semiramis Hotel in a northern Athenian resort. The Allied bombing and the ensuing communist uprising of 1944 had not been kind to ritzy ...

(Not) Guilty as Charged

And so to that rainy mecca of Western values, London. Or erstwhile mecca, I should say. The talk there is of the end of a reign of terror. Its queen regnant was a lady called Alison Saunders. I say lady purely to pique her; ...

The Nanny-Goat State

For men and women who’ve voluntarily joined an organization that demands (legally) blind obedience and counsels its minions to “Embrace the Suck,” American military personnel can be surprisingly pushy ...

Norman Mailer

A Pair of Kings

Norman Mailer was born on January 31, 1923, and as his hundredth birthday approaches there is a major revival of interest among those who can still read. Norman died in 2007, aged 84, and his first-born son, Michael, a ...

A Zero-Watt Affair

If the recently adjourned Republican National Convention was intended to cure insomnia, it was a thundering success. But if it was meant to light a fire under unmotivated voters’ asses, it’s doubtful that it ...

Keira Knightley

Never Let Me Go: Tea Time for Organ Harvesters

Although the movie industry is always accused of philistinism, filmmakers are often suckers for prestige novels. Richard Grenier, Commentary's renegade movie reviewer in the 1980s, pointed out a common type of bad classy ...

Jared Kushner

The Legend of the White Elephant

Talk about high life, this is not. I smelled a rat long ago. Then the scent got weaker and weaker. But now it’s back, stronger than ever. It has, of course, to do with the Saudis, the Qataris, and the son-in-law who has ...

Good News for Chicken Little

In these dark days of the republic, sourpusses abound. Less than a third of the country thinks it is on the right track. Unemployment is up, confidence is down, and the economy remains a disaster area. Nazis recently got 7% ...

Epic Proportions

A friend of mine is kind enough to send me little signs of the times that he finds scattered everywhere. His most recent offering is a photograph of enormously fat people, clutching preternaturally vast containers of sugary ...

The Week That Perished

Father’s Day has been called “the Rodney Dangerfield of Holidays” and was essentially created as an afterthought to Mother’s Day. It wasn’t declared a national holiday until 1972, while ...

The Huge Stakes of Thursday’s Confrontations

Thursday is shaping up to be the Trump presidency's "Gunfight at O.K. Corral." That day, the fates of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and much else, may be ...

Serifos

Summer in Serifos

He went away to fight and the war lasted 10 years. He missed his wife, but he didn’t worry one bit. She was in love with him and she was known for her virtue. (Those were the days.) Sailing west, he stopped in Serifos, a ...

Chinese Uighurs

Give ’em a Country

Sometimes you write a column just so you can forever after refer people to it. “Oh, that subject/point/complaint/theory/argument? I tackled/countered/responded to/exploded/demolished that back in July ’11—here’s the ...

In Defense of the Rich

"€œLet's put it this way,"€ says the uneducated liberal with the nursery-school analogies, "€œif Tommy has ten building blocks and Joey only has two, wouldn"€™t it make sense to give Joey a block or two?"€ Sure, ...

Ekaterina Rybolovleva

Living Downwind of the Fertilizer King

NEW YORK—I chose to live on 68th Street between Madison and Fifth Avenue because it’s next to Central Park and is considered as convenient an address as any in the city. It’s not so far uptown that it’s near the ...

Revenge of the RINOs

An essay collection by William F. Buckley, Jr. rests on my nightstand, a constant reminder of a time when conservative voices were intelligent and thoughtful. Not so today. Replacing the erudite conservative voices of the ...


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