Larry Thornberry
It would be easy to despair these days as the various precincts of the America-Is-Awful brigade seem to command the…
Tom Wolfe, who died Monday at 88 after an illness, would have been a first ballot member of the Writers’ Hall…
We needed no further evidence, what with so many episodes of utterly daft behavior on the part of public school…
I feared my thumb and TV remote might get serious workouts tonight, switching channels between the Lightning and the Capitols…
The Washington Post, long a champion of more strong women in positions of power, has editorialized against the confirmation of Gina Haspel,…
Joseph Epstein’s latest collection of essays, The Ideal of Culture, is an occasion for Epstein’s long-time readers — count me in this category — and an opportunity for those who’ve not yet had the pleasure. It has certainly been a pleasure for me reading Epstein’s stories and essays — these last run from newspaper column length to one-subject books. A pleasure because Epstein’s work is a rarely found combination of insights, humor, liveliness, and penetrating observations on the Vanity Fair we call life. This is likely why publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Atlantic, the Weekly Standard, the New Yorker, and, I’m pleased to add, The American Spectator, have published his work over the decades. The essays in Ideal first appeared in one or the other of this lineup between 2007 and just the other day.
Dennis Prager is easy to listen to. Relaxed, knowledgeable and witty, articulate, engaging, not overly impressed with himself. And of…
In an apparent case of Jerry Brown envy, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has made it clear he will do…
If the Donald ever had any inclination to fire Robert Mueller, now is the time. The totally unnecessary and Gestapo-like…
