Ike the Ringer
I have been reading Paul Johnson's new short biography of Dwight Eisenhower. This fulfills a long-standing intention of the feebler kind"a velleity, Bill Buckley would have said. Thus: In his 1983 book Modern ...
I have been reading Paul Johnson's new short biography of Dwight Eisenhower. This fulfills a long-standing intention of the feebler kind"a velleity, Bill Buckley would have said. Thus: In his 1983 book Modern ...
For most of history, being a hereditary aristocrat was a good job. The only catch was the old concept of noblesse oblige, which suggested that people of wealth, power, and influence were honor bound to defend the general ...
On February 27, 2013, Canadian historian and (more or less) conservative political operative Tom Flanagan gave a lecture in Lethbridge, Alberta. Driving home without a cell phone, listening to an audiobook instead of the ...
The Week's Most Hectic, Septic, and Apopleptic Headlines "SHIRTSTORM" AND OTHER PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF RITUAL BALL-BUSTING Perhaps the biggest news story regarding space travel since an evil white male named Neil ...
One of the merits of Christianity at its best is that it reconciles the infinite greatness of man with his infinite littleness. On the one hand man is created in the image of God, and each and every individual is unique as an ...
In 1956, 19 Democratic Senators and 82 Democratic House members signed a Southern Manifesto pledging to resist the integration of Southern public schools as ordered by Earl Warren’s Supreme Court. Only two GOP House ...
I suppose that since I find Lena Dunham to be a disgustingly entitled pig monster, I am a sexist, a fat-shamer, and, hell, even an anti-Semite. None of this changes the fact that I find her to be a disgustingly entitled pig ...
The Week's Most Disreputable, Objectionable, and Unmentionable Headlines ELECTIONS 2014: THE WHITES GO RED After the confetti settled from last week's midterm elections, the GOP emerged with a 60-seat advantage over Democrats ...
I maintain some vestigial links to the old country. Among them is the inclusion of the London Daily Telegraph in my morning trawl through the online news. It's sheer sentimentality on my part. The Telegraph was one of ...
What do you call a socialist who tries to make money selling books? The answer isn"t just Noam Chomsky; it's every socialist who walks the earth. The soothsayers of post-scarcity love to criticize the profit motive while ...
The Week's Lousiest, Drowsiest, Blowsiest, and Frowziest Headlines REPUBLICANS WILL WIN: DOES IT MATTER? As of Sunday, it is being projected that Republicans are more than 99% likely to retain a majority in the House and 94% ...
Full disclosure: I am neither a Christian nor a lesbian. Still, I doubt that Sam Houston would have given a man who claimed to be a woman the key to his outhouse. Annise Parker, the openly lesbian mayor of the nation's ...
The Week's Most Diffuse, Obtuse, and Abstruse Headlines DEAR BLACK PEOPLE: STOP MAKING FILMS SUCH AS DEAR WHITE PEOPLE Black director Justin Simien"and yes, it's pronounced just like "simian""is fairly ...
This month marks 50 years since Mario Savio stood atop a police car at UC Berkeley and gave an impassioned speech to throngs of young pampered radicals that launched what is now preserved in amber and lionized as the "Free ...