Friday, President Donald Trump met in New Jersey with his national security advisers and envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who is negotiating with the Taliban to bring about peace, and a U.S. withdrawal from America's longest ...
The night Obama was elected, the streets around my Brooklyn home were hysterical with glee. People were climbing up streetlights and screaming "OBAMA!" at the top of their lungs as if he wasn"t just another ...
When Larry Elder announced his candidacy in the goober-natorial recall election, I had a gut feeling that I’d be hearing from the media. Larry and I used to be close friends (before I got “canceled”), and these days ...
The 2020s have been a lousy decade in many ways. For example, tomorrow is the third anniversary of the “racial reckoning”: How’s that working out anyway? But at least the Covid years have been good for the game of ...
There was no television readily available when I heard that Neil Armstrong had passed from this world. In a hotel room hours later, I found that no news programs were mentioning him or his mark on history. On NBC was a ...
Last week we wrapped on the possibility that bitcoin (BTC) might be backed by gold or another asset class, although gold and BTC have a special affinity in that they are both "outlier" asset classes. Meaning ...
It's not every day that I praise a book by the former head of the American Civil Liberties Union, let alone the longest-serving president of that organization. But I was delighted to have Nadine Strossen on my Substack ...
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GSTAAD—Here I go again! I hear music and there’s no one there I smell blossoms and the trees are bare All day long I seem to walk on air…. Some of you must be getting rather tired of this, but I simply can’t help ...
The Cave of Forgotten Dreams is the latest documentary from artiste/showman Werner Herzog. It features the world's oldest known cave paintings, discovered in 1994 at Chauvet Grotto in southeastern France and immediately ...
Last Week's Most Captivating and Infuriating News Stories OBAMA-LAMA-DING-DONG! America’s 44th president says he’s comfortable with the fact that the morning-after pill has been approved for over-the-counter ...
Thanks to a historic acqua alta (high tide) and the global hysteria of the coronavirus, tourist reservations in Venice have decreased by 30%. What a great time to go! In addition, the violin of Il Prette Rosso, Antonio ...
One of the countless unsightly blemishes upon the human condition’s soiled visage is that people tend to only get outraged about injustice when it directly affects them. Witness the American media’s reaction ...
A scandal has raged this past week in England involving racially insensitive Tweets that landed the racially insensitive Tweeter behind bars. Liam Stacey was targeted and caged because they knew that almost nobody would ...
I’m jittery and fragile but free of plaster and in the dojo, slowly turning lean and muscular. Never listen to your doctor, is my message. Instead of two months in a cast I spent only five weeks, and I’ve just finished ...
It's weeks like this that make me wish I had a job and didn't have to stay home watching TV. With the impeachment nonsense dragging into its 56th month, I have some random observations, only a few of which have anything to ...
Dennis was a prophet without much honor in his own time. His influence was often indirect, and, in any case, was exercised behind the scenes, such as his colloquy with Lindbergh, for whom he reportedly wrote some speeches. ...
Anyone who believes America’s culture wars are behind her should have started out Friday reading The Washington Times. The headlines on the three top stories on page one read: “California judges asked to say ...
At a rally in Michigan last weekend, President Trump promised to bring in lots of guest workers to—I quote—“do your jobs.” Once, long ago, Trump was against replacing American workers with cheap ...
What is it to grow old, asked Matthew Arnold as the first line of his poem “Growing Old,” which he published in 1867 when he himself was 45, a greater age then than now, perhaps, but still not very ancient. His answer ...
I write this as a follow-up to last week’s essay on muzzling after making whoopee. I’m on my way to an island so difficult to get to, it has kept the great unwashed away, and from now on it is the only island I will ...
Fran Lebowitz doesn’t write anymore. Does it have something to do with having known success at a young age and seeing so many people buying her books but so few actually getting them? She may no longer write, but she ...
I was gonna do a piece about Covid’s origin, as it’s been in the news again and readers have asked me to address it, but I’m putting it off for a week. Because the Pedro Gonzalez thing is stuck in my ...
His death was front-page news in every newspaper in America, starting with The New York Times, and his demise also led the news on television. Long glowing tributes poured in, starting with Barack Obama confirming the ...
Talk about how the mighty have fallen. Time magazine was for the better part of the 20th century the model for American newsweeklies. Its style of epigrammatic terseness and punchy prose became known as “Timespeak,” its ...
