Not that I need one, but the release of Diane English’s remake of The Women is a good excuse to revisit the George Cukor original. It dates from 1939, that year when someone"maybe the Communists, although it ...
A week before George W. Bush arrived in Rome for their first meeting, Benedict XVI put his signature to a document proclaiming the Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter a Christian martyr for refusing to serve in an ...
While Saddam Hussein was still ruling Iraq, he went to a village to award a new Kalashnikov rifle to a young boy. The boy had come to the tyrant's attention after reporting the private conversations of his mother and father ...
As Martin Luther King is now regarded as the nation's premiere secular saint, virtually every single cause tries to attach itself to his legacy. It is therefore not terribly surprising that the pro-life movement tries to ...
A recent report by Scott McConnell, editor-at-large of The American Conservative, that Emperor BarackO, Proconsul Hillary Clinton, and the Praetorian General, David Petraeus, have “crossed the Rubicon” in ...
South Carolina’s Jim DeMint is one of my favorite Republicans. The senator’s unwavering opposition to government spending—from “stimulus” and national healthcare to auditing the Federal ...
Plutarch hoped that his readers could learn something of how to behave in seeing the wages of eminent men's (mis)behavior. American readers, however, seem to have adopted an attitude of "I just like to know what they ...
Since America became a nation, four of her greatest generals have served two terms as president: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses Grant and Dwight David Eisenhower. Not one of these generals led America into a new ...
I just flew in from Rome, and boy is my liver tired. Given the turbulence you get in trans-Atlantic flights"this was only my third flight from Europe"a high-strung sanguine choleric like me needs some kind of ...
At the height of the fashion for post-modernism, the camp panjandrum of late 20th century American architecture Philip Johnson described Norman Foster as “the last modern architect,” suggesting that his broad ...
There have been many legendary comments made in the House of Commons, the primary legislative chamber of the United Kingdom, and Sir Winston Churchill is responsible for many of them. Supposedly, the old bulldog was sitting ...
Escape has been the theme for U.S. moviegoers in recent months, but audiences aren"t avoiding attending good, serious films; Hollywood is avoiding making them. The newly released, highly derivative thriller Obsessed ...
Highly surprisingly for a far-left regime, the current U.K. Labour Party Government has just achieved the key stereotypical right-wing aim of bringing back hanging. But only for the right kind of offender, ...
I love politics and movies. So it's probably not surprising that I enjoy political documentaries, like Errol Morris‘s "The Fog of War", a portrait of one of the leading architects of the Vietnam War, former ...
About certain moral (and legal) matters, patriotic, freedom-loving Americans agree instinctively. For example: When brave, border patrolmen Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean shot an illegal alien drug dealer in the derriere, ...
Rolling though picture-perfect hills and fields of maize and barley towards Wembury House, Devon, for the annual Hanbury cricket match. At times it’s a scene from a ‘50s film of a long-ago England, beautiful, ...
In this season of giving, I'll donate to the Doe Fund, a charity that helps drug abusers and ex-cons find purpose in life through work. Doe's approach doesn't include many handouts. It's mostly about encouraging people to ...
I once asked Igor Gaidar why Russia was receiving such bad coverage. He said that the Soviets had spent millions to infiltrate the Western media, "Just because the Soviets went away, it doesn"t mean these reporters ...
I don’t have much faith in my fellow man. In fact, my own conservatism has much to do with the fact that I reject the entire notion of human improvement altogether. Grandiose liberal efforts do not work, not because ...
The decades-long campaign of Ron Paul to have the Government Accountability Office do a full audit of the Federal Reserve now has 313 sponsors in the House. Sometimes perseverance does pay off. If not derailed by the ...
Fond of beer in swarthy nooks, but happiest among his books. Change happens very quickly these days, and it has always interested me that people born in the same year as me are (more or less) the youngest ones to remember ...
Do your pets have telepathy? Mine don"t, and I"m a little disappointed. Because many pets do"close to half of dogs and 1/3 of cats, according to iconoclast British scientist Rupert Sheldrake, author of Dogs That ...
As already reported on Takimag, there are plenty of lunatic theories out there at the moment about what really started all those California wildfires currently raging. Jewish space lasers? A sinister attempt to destroy and ...
In Mandeville's infamous "Fable of the Bees," that witty writer makes the case that private vices generate public virtues. Specifically, he argues that the craving for gain, advancement, and luxury drives men to ...
