Francis X. Rocca

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in, wrote Robert…

On Easter Sunday, the Milan newspaper Corriere Della Sera ran a front-page editorial cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,…

“I love my Cadillac, and Cadillacs are the hippest cars,” says TAP’s own Ben Stein in an interview in this…

Prince Bolkonsky dies in my grandmother’s bedroom. Levin and Oblonsky dine at Blackie’s House of Beef (in Washington, D.C.). Mr….

Reading need never be dull again. The next time you find yourself bored by a bureaucratic memo, a passage of…

I know it’s easy for me to say this, now that I live 4,300 miles away, but I can’t help…

The president’s wife recently told a group of schoolchildren to “read, read and read again” rather than watch “that idiotic…

Flipping channels one evening last spring on my last trip home to the States, I happened across one of those…

I’ve never been much for hearts and flowers, and though I’ve ordered my share of roses over the years, I…

Jörg Haider is back in the news, in today’s New York Times no less. And what is Austria’s best-known (living)…