For too many months, for the first time in forty years, we were without a dog. Wattie, the last of a trio of clumber spaniels, had died, gently, of old age. It's wise, of course, ...

Wearing a Trump shirt in Florida is like wearing a Rolling Stones shirt at a Rolling Stones concert. In cities such as Berkeley, Madison, or Portland, however, it's like wearing ...

As the chaos unfolded late Thursday night in Dallas, I was struck by how many members of the media insisted the protest was peaceful and we have to remain calm. Who are these ...

As this is Thanksgiving week, I thought I"€™d take a break from Muslim terrorists and social justice warriors and all the other negative stuff to give thanks for something ...

As a connoisseur of leftist cannibalism, I enjoy watching the internecine squabbling of groups competing for the top spot on the hierarchy of oppression as if they were puppies ...

Menstruation is having a moment. I don"€™t mean the fleshly, goopy one that vexes roughly half the human race. Periods, while remaining annoyingly corporeal, are once again ...

Mocking treasured liberal slogans is as easy as shooting (bicycle-riding) fish in a barrel. They helpfully print them on T-shirts and bumper stickers, for one thing"€”although ...

In 2002, a failed British journalist named Nick Denton started Gawker, a bitchy gossip blog run out of his Manhattan apartment. Over 10 years later, Gawker and its sister ...

Some questions are asked in a spirit of inquiry, to obtain answers, but others are asked to intimidate or badger or coerce agreement with a point of view and establish the ...

The only time I regret not being much richer than I am is when I receive through the post (as I did yesterday) the catalogue of an antiquarian bookseller. Otherwise, I am more or ...

For some fifty years now it seems that God has played a great joke on mankind, granting the best fuel reserves to undeserving desert places run by crooked camel drivers: places ...

The other day I was thinking, which I know better than to do, and I started pondering the American economy, which ain"€™t got the chance of a frog in a French restaurant. Nobody ...

Though she was short, squat, and still learning to read at age forty, none who encountered her handiwork could doubt that Suzy Simmons was numbered among the Lord's elect. She ...

Once again, Republicans have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Faced with rising populist support of their principled stand against a law that a majority of the country ...

During a seminar organized by the International Herald Tribune entitled “Democracy Under Threat,"€ not only did Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras predict that the ...

It is said, invariably with a sigh and in mournful tones, that the press is biased"€”a proposition I find puzzling. The press is supposed to have a bias. Complaining that a ...