Can a woman get elected president? Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren’s possible disagreement was a cause célèbre at the most recent (and boring) debate among six Democrats vying for their party’s nomination. Is their question the same as “Can a…
Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller (Simon & Schuster, 588 pages, $29.99) Goliath by Matt Stoller is a left-leaning account of American business and antitrust. The author probably studied American history by reading Howard…
This just in: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, according to people who spoke to us on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment. (Franco, for those who don’t study history because they think it’s sexist, was…
In 1951, a Time magazine wit (probably a Harvard man) called the Yale motto, “For God, For Country, and For Yale” the outstanding anticlimax in the English language. Later that year, Yale graduate William F. Buckley, Jr., perhaps recognizing Time’s…
One gets the sense that Congress’s trying to craft a healthcare bill is like trying to play the piano in mittens. Why should it be so difficult? Because Congress is trying to command and control the actions and interactions of…
Poor Nicole Meyer, Jared Kushner’s sister: she’s had to pretzelize herself because she mentioned that she was… Jared Kushner’s sister when she was pitching a real estate deal to a group of Chinese businessmen. Denizens of the left-wing fever swamp,…
Advocates have a rule when making a case: Don’t pile on. But the columns against President Trump for firing FBI Director James Comey are piling on and spilling over the top — and are losing their punch. Here’s a list…
The spit turns slowly over the Social Security roasting fire but there is no whimpering from the children being cooked. Yet. Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal (one of English literature’s great satires) for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland…
Very few senior citizens have heard of Ephram Nestor. And not many junior citizens, either. Nestor was a Bulgarian who came to America in 1913 and lived here continuously for 43 years. Then, in July 1956, he was deported for…