Lou Aguilar
Something beautiful happened last week. The bells of Notre Dame rang for the first time since a terrible fire consumed the magnificent cathedral, originally completed in 1260 for the glory of God, five years ago. To a poetic mind, the…
I never shared the awe of fantastic screen heroes forged by Star Wars and its legacy, though I appreciated the return to nobility after a decade of murky antiheroes. At least you knew where Han Solo and Indiana Jones stood…
Anything can happen by Election Day next week, but Democrats are having a really scary Halloween. They fear the Great Orange Pumpkin is coming to get them, and their horror is infectious. After all, they’d thrown everything they had at…
Twenty years from now, historians will look at the election of November 5th, 2024 as either the end of America or its salvation. Of course, should the Democrats win, real historians won’t be able to chronicle the former. They’ll be…
I get a weekly massage at my condo. The masseuse, Romulo, is fit and muscular enough to meet the rigors of his job. Conversing with him after a recent session, I stepped into the hallway still shirtless as my yuppie…
A Woman Underground By Andrew Klavan (Mysterious Press, 288 pages, $27) Sometimes it takes several entries in a fiction series to strike gold. There were three terrific James Bond movies before the ultimate, Thunderball (Sorry, Goldfinger aficionados). And Hercule Poirot…
I recently did a pleasant interview with Daily Wire about my new political thriller novel The Washington Trail. At the end, the interviewer asked me every author’s dream question, but which I had a hard time answering. If, and when,…
Most boys growing into men today — playing their phones instead of reading books — will have a harder time than we Culture War veterans in understanding the real world. Even their interminable superhero movies are basically video games. Consequently,…
A movie critic X friend of mine, Movie Mad Motto, regularly cites the films he’s watched or is about to watch. What I like about his posts is that though Rob is much younger than me, he appreciates old films…
