The Real American Right: Part II
Members of the Old Right like Murray Rothbard were "apostles of discord" because they challenged and opposed all those Good Things that non ""extremists" embraced, like the Welfare State, the United ...
Members of the Old Right like Murray Rothbard were "apostles of discord" because they challenged and opposed all those Good Things that non ""extremists" embraced, like the Welfare State, the United ...
Plus, The Railway Children come to Waterloo and the Blue Boat goes up for auction She & Him Unlike, say, Lindsay Lohan, Zooey Deschanel can act, write songs, and sing. She & Him, the duo Deschanel formed with M. ...
Last week in this space I was grossly unfair to a vast swathe of our country, one of America’s most hard-working and patriotic regions. In mocking the Midwest as humorless—indeed, affectless—I surely ...
Plus, Helen Mirren gets her sex on and Louis C.K. stages a comeback La Maison Jean Cocteau La Maison Cocteau at Milly-la-Forêt is open to the public after five years and "¬4 million. The poet, dramatist, painter, ...
She calls herself "Melissa Beech," and if we take her thumbnail biography at face value, she's a college senior, living in Philadelphia"and living in lavish style, thanks to her wealthy boyfriend. A successful ...
If the aphorism holds—the guerrilla wins if he does not lose—the Taliban are winning and America is losing the war in Afghanistan. Well into the eighth year of war, the Taliban are more numerous than ever, ...
In August, the Georgian navy seized a Turkish tanker carrying fuel to Abkhazia, Georgia’s former province whose declaration of independence a year ago is recognized by Russia but not the West. The Turkish captain was ...
Last Friday, a Bloomberg.com headline read: “U.S. Stocks Gain, Treasuries Drop as Unemployment Rate Declines.” Let’s have a look at the reported decline in the rate of unemployment. Do you believe that ...
It is an age-old question: what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? The force in question is the farming community of Argentina, once among the agricultural powerhouses of the world, and the object ...
On 3 April, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) announced that it was joining the National Union of Teachers (NUT) to recommend boycotting KS2 SATs. I"d better explain all these acronyms—or ...
The Pentagon’s pre-emptive strike came with the leak of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s confidential review of the Afghan war to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post. McChrystal’s painting of the military ...
What a Rich Pyre!, by Russell Setiz Being a poem in the style of “Under Which Lyre?” WH Auden’s adieu to WWII, which Norman Podhoretz ought to have read before taking the poet’s name in vain in his ...
Recently in a Moscow court, a Russian oligarch ignored the cage surrounding him and spoke with a canary's glee. Mikhail Khodorkovsky—imprisoned in a Siberian gulag since 2005—dazzled the courtroom with his ...
While Bush and McCain were “abandoning free-market principles to save the free-market system” by signing off on an $800 billion Wall Street Bailout, the Republican establishment still treated the truly ...
Opinions vary with respect to the ongoing conflict in Iraq, but we can all agree that the struggle for Europe, 1939-45, was "the Good War." Or can we? Not if Pat Buchanan is right, and he presents a ...
The Biden administration has announced in recent weeks new stringent emissions requirements for virtually the entire American transportation system. The Environmental Protection Agency will mandate by the year 2035 that ...
So there we were, at the storied Elaine’s restaurant, Taki, R. Emmet Tyrell, Lewis Lapham, and several other luminaries… but I couldn’t help feeling (sorry, Taki) that the most important man at the table ...
The very first time I walked into the Spectator office was in 1975, taken there for the summer party by Simon Courtauld, the then managing editor, i.e., he dealt with the business side of the oldest English speaking ...
With the visit of Pope Benedict to the U.S., American Catholics are faced with a grave confrontation between Church and State, a conflict between their supernatural faith and their patriotic duty, unparalleled in the ...
The defeat of incumbent Rep Wayne Gilchrest at the hands of State Senator Andy Harris is a victory for the conservative movement. Harris defeated the liberal Republican Gilchrest in the heavily conservative 1st ...
Over at The Atlantic, Ross Douthat objects to Andrew Bacevich's conservative case for Obama. Douthat believes Bacevich has not given enough consideration to the possibility that McCain will appoint judges who will overturn ...
Harry and Meghan looked like ambulance chasers in burning Los Angeles a couple of weeks ago, but acting like virtue-signaling disaster tourists is what they do best. It does not surprise me. For those of you who don’t ...
When I wrote Pat Buckley’s obituary last spring, I had a pretty good idea that Bill would follow her sooner rather than later. I happened to be with him the day she died, along with his brother James and sister ...
A Fourth of July Washington Post-syndicated column by W's former speechwriter and the author of his Second Inaugural, Michael Gerson, struck so many Republican, neoconservative, and not least of all Evangelical themes that ...
