Yacht Plot
“Invert your ensign and pretend to be Serbs.” Such is the advice currently offered by Greek port officials to Russian yachts en route to Turkey. The Aegean now plays host to an Olympian game of musical chairs. No one ...
“Invert your ensign and pretend to be Serbs.” Such is the advice currently offered by Greek port officials to Russian yachts en route to Turkey. The Aegean now plays host to an Olympian game of musical chairs. No one ...
Days after Mayor Eric Adams said the migrant crisis was going to "destroy" New York City, we memorialized the last time immigrants tried to destroy it: the 9/11 attack. At least that was a one-time body blow. The city ...
In perhaps a new low in the ignorance, self righteousness, and over-sensitivity of African American politicians, two black officials in Dallas objected to the use of the term "black hole." During a meeting ...
Watching Steven Soderbergh's comedy The Informant! (with Matt Damon as that guy back in the 1990s who squealed to the feds about how he fixed the price of lysine for Archer Daniels Midland) reminded me of Econ 101, where ...
Yes, it’s Earth Day again, the day we’re all supposed to think about Mother Gaia and what we can do to worship her in the correctly communal and communitarian manner. One little tip for you though (stolen ...
The inclination to analyze politicians’ conduct by means of psychiatric diagnosis is growing. This is unsurprising in view of what was once called psychiatric imperialism: the classification of all thought and human ...
In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared to the nation and world: "We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom. A battle between democracy and autocracy." On her trip to Taiwan, ...
As we are constantly lectured, race does not exist. Yet, almost nobody points out that the conventional wisdom that races are wholly arbitrary social constructs is actually far truer for the popular concept of ...
In 1986, The New York Times described evangelicals as "more easily led than other kinds of voters." Then in 1993, The Washington Post reported that evangelicals were "largely poor, uneducated and easy to command." (The ...
Now that it looks like Trump is seriously going to be the Republican nominee for president, who should his vice president be? If he's headed for a catastrophic, 1964-style defeat, then he should definitely pick Nikki Haley ...
Is Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless the most overrated movie of all time? Of course not. At least, I don’t think so. However, eleven months ago I was watching the Criterion Collection DVD of it at home, and thinking ...
Despite the fact that we’ve given peace several chances only to be repeatedly disappointed, there’s always some wide-eyed new group willing to give peace yet another chance. Hence we have Pennies for Peace and Pinwheels ...
Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play. Should the president declare he has gone the last mile for a negotiated end to Iran’s nuclear ...
The magical embroidery of memory is not involved in this one: I remember it as if it were yesterday, despite something like sixty years having gone by. I had had dinner at El Morocco, the best dinner-nightclub that has ever ...
Now comes the morning after, and a surly nation sweeps up its mountains of badges, posters, and lies before carting them all off to the curb. It wasn"t much of a party, but we know we"ll probably do it again in a ...
Call me old-fashioned, but I’m of the belief that when you come to our shores as an immigrant, you in some way, shape, or form are seeking a better life for yourself and your family, and wanting or at least agreeing to ...
Plus, Sofia Coppola's latest and the Duchess of York gets the E! True Hollywood ...
A remark by Richard Brookhiser in April in a syndicated column in the New York Post about “how we"re all WASPs now” made me realize that Brookhiser's statement taken in context does not prove what he thinks ...
The riots in Britain have made one thing clear: The political classes do not know what poor people look like. Keir Starmer has been like a broken record describing everyone on the streets as “a member” of “The Far ...
I must admit to slightly mixed feelings about Argentina’s current libertarian President Javier Milei. On the one hand, he is a mentally disturbed chainsaw-wielding nutcase who has established a private kennel-cabinet of ...
The Week That Perished I read with interest the findings that Kim Jong Un is more popular than Nancy Pelosi among Republicans. But I would remind readers that there is an important difference between these two people: One ...
What you deem to have been recent depends very much on your age. What is recent to an old man is prehistory to the young. To me, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe seems but yesterday, though I have to admit that ...
Patriotic immigration reformers didn"t have a dog in the NY-23 Congressional special election fight"Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman toed the Club For Growth line, so the issue didn"t surface"but ...
Hosni Mubarak, it appears, is not going to go quietly, or quickly. He is not going to play the role assigned him in the White House script that has him resigning and fleeing Egypt in the face of mass demonstrations in ...
