Black on Black
The flap over Henry Lewis Gates and arresting officer James Crowley was supposed to be a "teachable moment," but other than the predictable outcries of "white racism lives!" the incident has proven to be of ...
The flap over Henry Lewis Gates and arresting officer James Crowley was supposed to be a "teachable moment," but other than the predictable outcries of "white racism lives!" the incident has proven to be of ...
In two successive editorials in the Washington Post, George Will has officially announced that it's time to bring our national boondoggles to an end and begin pulling out of Afghanistan and Iraq. Said Will of Iraq: After ...
Having just seen the film Julie and Julia, based on a book by Julie Powell and a screen play by Nora Ephron, I"ve certain unanswered questions about some of the historical details that went into the plot. Of the two main ...
A modern ritual which annoys me rather a lot is that of having to see Billie Jean King’s bloated face and dyed hair during opening and closing Grand Slam tennis ceremonies. King was a hell of a player, but much too loud ...
We should have “an honest debate” on health care, said Barack Obama in his Aug. 22 radio address, “not one dominated by willful misrepresentations and outright distortions.” Among the “phony ...
Under Discussion: Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, Doubleday (2009), 432 pages. Christopher Caldwell opens his Burke-evoking opus examining postwar ...
Are men to blame for the economic crash? That's become a popular theme in the press. For example, the BBC's business editor Robert Peston recently stated in "Why men are to blame for the crunch:" "I routinely ...
Recently while talking to a "moderate" conservative and faithful NR reader, I was struck by this person's profoundly negative view of the past, including the recent past. When I mentioned research by Thomas Sowell in ...
While watching Inglourious Basterds, I had time on my hands to ponder once again whether Quentin Tarantino's variegated gifts and inclinations would have made him even more suited for other careers. Reviewing Kill Bill: Vol. 2 ...
America is a strange place. Liberals get emotionally distraught that the Founding Fathers stuck Second Amendment rights in the Constitution. For American citizens to possess firearms is considered to be dangerous. Yet, it is ...
When Peter Brimelow was still at National Review, he wrote a piece entitled "Electing a New People" detailing how mass immigration is a disaster for the GOP. He opened with the line, "Demography is destiny in ...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Washington this week to press flesh with the president. In an interview, Mubarak told PBS television that Barack Obama's speech had shown him that "America is not against ...
Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp’s Malthusian fable of post-Apartheid Johannesburg. District 9, a violent science fiction movie set in a Johannesburg slum inhabited by 1.8 million feckless refugee space aliens, is the ...
“Taliban Are Winning: U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Warns of Rising Casualties.” Thus ran the startling headline on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal. The lead paragraph ran thus: The Taliban have gained ...