Larry Thornberry
Books about Christmas, or with Christmassy themes, can be saccharine. Consider a couple that aren’t. Some may argue that the Willie Nelson book Pretty Paper comes close to it in a couple of places. But we give America’s favorite troubadour a bit more latitude than others, do we not? And sentimental or no, the book has its strengths. Willie Nelson fans — you don’t have to go far to find these — will love it.
There remain those who persist in believing that environmentalists are just sweet, cuddly people who like birds and want clean…
One of the measures of how serious a society is about personal freedom is the way in which it deals…
There could not be a more stark contrast in the way people of the right and people of the left…
Joy remains unconfined on Calle Ocho (8th Street) in Miami, the main drag through Little Havana, in whose small, family-owned restaurants I’ve enjoyed…
In his fine piece on the coming Borking of Jeff Sessions in this a.m.’s TAS, George Neumayr cites the febrile New York…
Retired Marine Corps General James “Mad Dog” Mattis is said to be the leading contender to be President Donald Trump’s…
As most TAS readers know, the late Williams F. Buckley Jr. was eloquent in the written and spoken word. On the page he could beguile, inform, and amuse in every form, from the 800-word column to book-length nonfiction as well as spy novels. Comes now-author and Fox newsman James Rosen to present and give context to 52 examples of a genre at which Buckley excelled, the eulogy.
At the center of the vast difference between humans and every other species to call Earth home, and the fatal complication for every theory that purports to explain all, is speech. Language. It’s the main thing that separates humans from every other species, and makes possible the things that make humans human — abstract thought, the ability to remember the past and contemplate the future, to have aesthetic, intellectual, and spiritual lives.
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