Good news, everybody! According to two writers I respect enormously, the intellectual underpinnings of the progressive world-view have just been washed away by events. We can doubtless look forward to a much-transformed political climate in which the most egregious sort of left-wingery will simply cease to exist. In today’s National Review online, the magazine’s editor,…
Shrewd observations and wisdom from one of our greatest historians — From The Weekly Standard of January 4, 2010
The Obama administration is vague about the country’s enemies but crystal-clear about its own — From The New Criterion of December, 2009
We conservatives tend to think of the media’s fawning on President Obama as the salient fact about our political culture and, in many ways, it is. But our constant consciousness of the fact may make us forget that this sycophancy can work both ways. Being, as he is, so much a creature of the media,…
Film critics are so easy to please. You just have to give them a high concept, a bit of politically correct cynicism about the evils of “capitalism” or the “system” or the armed forces or the government security apparatus, add a couple of hip, attractive and sexually adventurous people with a vulnerability or two between…
If the title is coming to seem an accurate description of our world, it is the only thing about this movie that rings true
Now that they’re running — or, as some would say, ruining — the country, the Democrats seem never to have heard of the venerable parliamentary principle, attributed to the 14th Earl of Derby in the early years of Victoria’s reign, that the duty of the opposition is to oppose. Certainly Paul Krugman in today’s New…
Andrew McCarthy has a splendid piece in today’s National Review Online taking to task that “useful idiot,” Senator Dick Durbin, and those like him who believe “that Guantanamo Bay must be shut down because it causes terrorism and spurs terrorist recruitment.” Mr McCarthy prosecuted the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, in civil court for the first…
A speech to the 13 Stars Social Club of Minneapolis
Great news, everybody! According to Alastair Sooke, writing in the Daily Telegraph of London, “art is beautiful again.” He was led to this conclusion by the award of this year’s Turner Prize for artists under 50 to a 49-year-old Scot named Richard Wright, whose winning entry consisted of an elaborate and undoubtedly handsome design in gold…
Why do you suppose it is that Europeans seem so much more interested than Americans in the fate of the American girl, Amanda Knox, just convicted of murder in Italy and sentenced to 26 years in prison? True, Miss Knox’s victim was her British room-mate, Meredith Kercher, but I don’t think that quite accounts for…
