F.H. Buckley
There’s a story out of Mount St. Mary’s in Emmitsburg MD, the small Catholic college where Germain Grisez used to teach. The student newspaper reported that the college president proposed getting rid of underperforming students. “This is hard for you…
The debate last night was profoundly depressing, for the only clear winner was Hillary Clinton. I suspect that is precisely what moderator John Dickerson wanted, for three years back, as the political director of once-revered CBS News, he instructed Obama…
Drudge reports the sad news that Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes this morning, at a resort in south Texas. The conservative justice served nearly 30 years on the Court, and earned the reputation as…
Those who read Sunday op-eds, and who’ll read think pieces posted online, will know that all that glisters is not gold, and that some writers are consistently uninteresting. In the spirit of disinterested benevolence I propose a metric (which for…
Those who hate too much become like the people they hate, and so it is with Jane Mayer, whose Dark Money, a 450-page screed of unrelenting venom, portrays a vast right-wing conspiracy controlled by a small number of libertarian donors….
What America Needs: The Case for Trump by Jeffrey Lord Regnery Publishing, 192 pages, $12.71 (paper) I have fallen in love with American names, wrote poet Stephen Vincent Benét. The sharp names that never get fat. John Wayne. The Beach…
First, work yourself into a lather about Donald Trump. He’s not really a conservative, you say, and as evidence you tell us that he likes universal health care. You too will make compromises with the Left, but of a different…
I see that polite conservatives have taken to labeling Donald Trump a fascist. That used to be a confession of failure: when all else fails, call your enemy a fascist or a Nazi. I think it’s still a confession of…
I’ve always thought that having a small cold was God’s way of telling me to buy a box of chocolates. Or if not, to binge on a good old movie; and so, slightly laid up the other day, I watched…
Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World’s Most Successful CompaniesBy Charles G. Koch(Crown Business, 288 pages, $28) Charles Koch’s new book, Good Profit, is written for two different kinds of readers. The first is the…
