Let’s play a little game of guessing what is the paper — and what is the editorial position of the paper — in which the following “news” headlines have recently appeared. No peeking by clicking on the links prematurely: 1. President Trump has made 4,229 false or misleading claims in 558 days. 2. The New York Times…
The lives of 19th-century utopians were more interesting than the utopias they imagined. — From The Weekly Standard of August 13, 2018
President Trump’s visit to Britain today prompts one to wonder if that country is catching the American disease, which is a bio-spiritual ailment called irony deficiency anemia. The left-wing Labour mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has authorized the flight of a giant balloon, tethered in Parliament Square, purportedly representing a caricature of the President as…
It would be superflous to rehearse the multiple stupidities of Adam Liptak’s New York Times article of last Sunday headed "How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment." Others, including David Marcus of The Federalist have already done that. But Mr Liptak’s piece is so disingenuous that any attempt to answer his argument — if you can dignify it…
"Democracy requires principled gov’t. Thank you Red Hen!!" So read the placard someone placed outside the restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, which drove away Sarah Huckabee Sanders last week for no better reason than that she worked for President Trump. The sign expressed a widely held opinion, but it happens to be false — indeed, almost…
For all their passionate hatred of President Trump, the media increasingly seem to be just going through the motions in pursuing him — From The New Criterion of June, 2018
The decisions that led to today’s heightened partisanship — from The Weekly Standard of June 25, 2018
“We are not going to judge you on your outward appearance,” says Gretchen Carlson of the Miss America Pageant — excuse me, “Competition.” It sounds like a joke, or perhaps a Buddhist koan: when is a beauty pageant not a beauty pageant? When it doesn’t judge you on your outward appearance. Not so long ago,…
Here’s what Giles Coren, house humorist (and restaurant critic) at The Times of London, wrote in a recent "Notebook" column in that paper about an important game of "football" — i.e. soccer — which was played last weekend in Kiev (or Kyiv, as I find it is now more often being transliterated), Ukraine: I haven’t…
Yet another media-contrived scandal brought up against him seemingly fails to get the job done against President Trump. What is going on here? — From The New Criterion of May, 2018
On some of the recent media outbreaks of utopian thinking and what they tell us about the dire state of the culture — From The New Criterion of April, 2018
The British, I think we can say with some confidence, are not entirely happy about the bond formed between Donald Trump and, Emmanuel Macron, so prominently displayed during the French president’s state visit to Washington. Our transatlantic cousins on the other side of la Manche have often in the past had occasion to mention the…
