I should first admit that it took quite a lot for me to actually go see Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's latest about a special Army unit of Jewish avengers, led by a half-Cherokee Good Ol"€™ Boy, who rampage ...

Socialist elements within the European Union disapprove of America and welcome any opportunity to criticize and undermine it. Three topics will facilitate their attack"€”the death penalty, freedom of speech, and ...

Ah Spring, the spring of our frost bitten age. At the Polish Club in London, a wonderful place studded with portraits of Polish patriots who have fought and sacrificed for the West’s freedom. In this beautiful and heroic ...

Ah, Italia! Such a great place to get your head around great art and great women, but such a shitty little country. How else to describe a so-called free and democratic country where the police cart off a national ...

While reading a new study by Lukas Althoff and Hugo Reichardt, Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress After Slavery, about how it is better for African Americans today to be descended from ancestors who were freed before ...

U.S. growth in the first quarter fell to 2.2 percent, a disappointment. But in Europe, that news would have caused general rejoicing. For consider the gathering crisis on the old continent. With negative growth now for ...

Dear Gato, I"€™ll tell you some more about Armando Rhon, "€œgreatest realtor in Mexico"€"€”Baja California, that is"€”when I have time. Unfortunately, I have a feeling he and I will be seeing a lot more of each ...

"€œI think it would be appropriate for Earth Hour in the interests of the environment for the Senator to punch Justin Trudeau's lights out."€ That was author Mark Steyn, speaking for millions of Canadians right before ...

Downton Abbey"€˜s popularity in the United States comes as little shock to those who remember the early 1970s"€™ Upstairs, Downstairs craze. In a word, the show's popularity is fueled by nostalgia. That word came to ...

We supposedly live in a secular and irreligious age. Man, however, is a religious creature prone to worship. This is never more apparent than when a figure from popular culture dies at a young age. Especially if their death ...

Is a conservative climate consensus possible? If hard cases make bad law, soft science makes sensible politics even harder. The Climate Wars present legislators on both sides of the aisle with few certainties, among them ...

Last week, Turkey decided to ban Twitter. The move was a reaction to supposed evidence that had spread on the website purporting to corroborate allegations of corruption within Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip ...

Dear Gato, It's late, and I"€™m half-watching Hobo With a Shotgun on the widescreen while I write. The feeling is, it's getting late. My working hours are 11PM-5AM. My waking hours are also late"€”noon and onwards. We, ...

None of this would have happened had I accepted my neighbor’s invite to dine with a Swiss billionaire banker, or bb. He’s an old friend, the bb, and untypically Swiss: He boozes, schnoofs, and chases women, or AFABs, as ...

At the end of Sunday mass at the church this writer attends in Washington, D.C., the pastor asked the congregation to remain for a few minutes. Then, on the instructions of Cardinal Archbishop Donald Wuerl, the pastor ...

The first criterion in choosing a vice president, it is said, is that he or she must be qualified to be president. Yet there is another yardstick by which candidates measure running mates. Do they bring something to the ...

Harvard man Russell Seitz has sent me an extraordinary present as an object lesson in “what a magazine should be, in case you start another one.” The paper has yellowed and is dog-eared, pages are falling out and the ...

“Like a fire bell in the night,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, “this momentous question ... awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.” Jefferson was ...

American society has descended from one that whelped men who threw punches if a woman heard the lame profanity of a drunken lout, to one that whelps men who watch their women suffer rape and murder. How did we come to this ...

Handsome men born before 1970 were no different than any other, average-looking, men. I mean, they were the captains of the football team and they felt the breasts of every cute girl in school and they eventually ran huge ...

GSTAAD—Who was it who said good manners had gone the way of black-and-white TV? Actually it was yours truly after watching the slobs parading up and down Gstaad’s main street. That was last year, but the bad news is ...

Just as I finished complaining last week of the inability of Americans to string together a complete sentence, I realized they make up for it by being the worst-dressed people this side of the Ukraine. J.Crew has been in ...

There is something that has been bothering me of late, and that is my total lack of schadenfreude. The malicious pleasure over someone’s misfortune never counted a lot, but it’s now totally absent, and it worries me. ...

The world beyond our shores seems to be entering a zone of dangerous instability. Five years from now we may be looking back nostalgically at the decades 1980-2010 as an age of blessed tranquility when unsightly but ...