Christopher Orlet
Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life By Anthony T. Kronman (Yale, $27.50, 320 pages) How many English majors does it take to make a cinnamon dolce latte? (That’s actually the set-up…
Want an idea what health care will be like under an Obama or Rodham Clinton presidency? Just pick up any British newspaper. Here’s one recent story from the Daily Mail: Dorothy Simpson suffers from an irregular heartbeat that gives here…
Whether by church, monarch, or dictator, Europeans are not unaccustomed to being told what to do and what to think. Perhaps that is why they have elected the German Hans-Gert Pottering president of the European Parliament. President Pottering is a…
Irony Alert: It is official. We have now become a nation so cowardly and fearful that grandmothers who survived the Holocaust are harrassed, cuffed, thrown in the clink and forced to post $3000 bond. When it comes to security nazis,…
Now where will all the folks who dig the Chippendales, Barry Manilow, Carrot Top, and the one-armed bandit get their shot of midcult?
Andrzej Wajda’s new film Katyn opens with an archetypal image from World War II in Poland. Hundreds of Polish refugees are crossing a bridge over the River Vistula. Behind them can be heard the guns of the advancing German Wehrmacht….
For all you young “conservative intellectuals” out there (Yes, I’m talking to you Poulos, Macomber, Tabin, Antle, etc.) All of this doom and gloom about the end of the conservative movement doesn’t seem to give the new generation of conservative…
Didn’t know there was such a publication, did you? The esteemed editor is one Jennie Bristow, who I believe was once a contributor to Baby Seal Clubbers Weekly. The publisher is Britain’s largest single abortion provider and “cares for” almost…
In Our Enemy, the State, the libertarian essayist Albert Jay Nock posited that the State and liberty were and always would be antithetical, and that eventually the Bill of Rights would be whittled down to the Bill of Right. Nock,…
The Age of American Unreason Susan Jacoby (Pantheon, 356 pages, $26) Reasonable men may debate whether we need another book testifying to the dumbing down of America. On my bookshelf I find several titles addressing the topic from both sides…
