It was the state, which came into existence in the late middle ages and early modern period, that created the political precondition for the spread of individual identity. It did this by enacting legal systems that embraced ...
Plus, Neruda's life gets the operatic treatment, a docu exposes Springsteen's creativity, and a politician rocks ...
Have you heard the great news? The recession is over! It's true; I saw it on TV. Why fret about growing unemployment lines when banks are paying big-time bonuses again? Proof of the turn was apparently revealed by the 2nd ...
Reading a newspaper headline recently—on my telephone, of course—I suddenly became aware of a terrible injustice that was about to be done to me. The headline proclaimed that 70 was the new 60, and that scientific ...
In light of all the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of D-Day last month, I finally got around to digging out the old service record of my grandfather, who served across Africa and the Middle East as a Military ...
Pierre Bergé Design Sale, Brussels, Belgium, June 9 Tom Dixon, Marcel Breuer, Alberto Giacometti, The Lalannes, Line Vautrin, Serge Mouille, Pierre Jeanneret, Joe Colombo, and many more works by renowned designers will ...
The optimism of today's Chinese is not hard to understand. To be sure, China is still a poor country, with a per capita GDP only a ninth that of the U.S. Look back at your own life, though. The times when you felt most ...
The block I’ve lived on these past 35 years is next to what no less a Manhattan authority like Woody Allen has called the most beautiful street in the city. This time of year the elms and poplar trees give my block a ...
December not only marks the advent of "the Holidays" but, for America's growing population of undergraduates, is a time of exams, papers, and NoDoz-assisted "all-nighters." The following selections come ...
David Sirota begins his tour of American populism by telling how he hung around with leftists, got drunk, daydreamed for a while, and then threw up. Sirota's The Uprising has ambitious aims"a no holds barred, behind the ...
For the Cheney-Bush White House, the recent NIE concerning Iran’s nuclear capability was a bombshell. Its significance was recognized immediately by all interested parties. No doubt this is the reason Dick Cheney had ...
In 1914, on the very eve of the Great War, G.K. Chesterton published his humorous novel The Flying Inn. The story concerned a Turkish plot to invade England, all with the connivance of Britain's progressive elite. At the ...
The current regime of Rand-handlers offer an application of the principles of "Objectivism" to foreign policy that is unique in the annals of individualist thought: uniquely bloodthirsty. According to them, America ...
Under Discussion: American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile, Richard John Neuhaus, Basic Books (2009), 270 pages. Richard Neuhaus, the recently deceased editor of First Things, acquired in his life a remarkable number ...
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd wrote last week of the town hall protesters: “Instead of a multicultural tableau of beaming young idealists on screen, we see ugly scenes of mostly older and white ...
Those who live in or near the nation's capital, or routinely travel there, know that the Washington, D.C., region is home to the best airport in the country, Reagan National. It's also home to one of the worst airports, ...
Gordon Brown may have torpedoed his last chance to be prime minister in his own right when, in the privacy of his limo, he called 66-year-old Gillian Duffy that “bigoted woman.” What had widow Duffy done to ...
I received a very interesting email from a reader. He said he is helping a friend’s daughter write a college essay on xxxx speech, and “after much mutual painful time spent, she still didn’t seem to grasp ...
Last Saturday, Honduran soldiers marched into the presidential palace, bundled up President Manuel Zelaya and put him on a plane for Costa Rica. The ouster had been ordered by the Supreme Court and approved by the ...
Vice President Joe Biden has been slightly more candid than his boss, confessing of late that he "and everyone else misread the economy." For his "everyone else" refrain, or plain fib, Joe can be forgiven. ...
As America debates whether to send tens of thousands more troops to Afghanistan, in the ninth year of a war for ends we cannot discern, a riveting new history recalls times when Americans fought for vital national ...
Joe Wilson knows of what he speaks. South Carolina's Republican Representative is what one of my readers has dubbed deliciously a "subject matter expert" on providing federal health benefits to illegal aliens. ...
Not that I had any doubts about how pig-headed, stubborn and ungrateful George W. Bush is, but confirmation of it never hurts. A friend of long standing revealed to me how Brian Mulroney, the ex-prime minister of Canada, ...
The UK Treasury is considering replacing the copper in some coins with nickel steel as an economic measure. The scheme has been met with protests, but not from monometallists " rather in the impressive shape of the ...
