Bruce Bawer

If there’s anything uglier and stupider than most of the songs performed at the annual Eurovision Song Contest, it’s the…

What do you think of when you hear the words “Nordic welfare state”? Government-run health care, with reasonable fees for…

American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States By Roger L. Simon (Encounter…

Tár was released on Oct. 7, 2022, and for a while afterwards, I did everything I could, short of getting…

For decades during the postwar era, Leonard Bernstein occupied a unique place at the red-hot center of both America’s high…

Last month, reporting here on the first part of the sixth and last season of The Crown, I was, if…

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever By Matt Singer (G.P. Putman’s Sons, 352 pages, $30) In the…

I’ve never entirely understood why, when the subject is death-dealing psychopathic dictators like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, Napoleon almost always…

Another year, another installment of The Crown. The series, which started in 2016, has been a cash cow for Netflix….

Until I stumbled across a live online feed a few minutes after it started, I wasn’t aware that a “March…