Matthew Walther
Unlike Paul Kengor, I somehow can’t get myself worked up about the president’s religion—or lack thereof: Balmer and the Times also addressed the remarkable fact that Barack Obama not only lacked a Christmas service this year but lacks a church…
THE AMERICAN LIBRARY Association is, as its name suggests, a professional organization for librarians and, increasingly, for the computer network administrators, social media gurus, and all-around efficiency mavens who bolster the staffs of American public and academic libraries. It is…
Checking out the redesigned New Republic today, I came across this bizarre sentence in an essay by Michael Kinsley: At this point, before he remarried, [Edward] Kennedy’s dual reputation for girth and senatorial statesmanship had not yet overcome his reputation as a…
I cannot believe that the president just exhorted us to overhaul our immigration system on the basis of, err, Instagram. Oh, where would the economy be without this “online photo-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take…
According to the Huffington Post, Alex Jones thinks that they do: [Jones] claims the government is “encouraging homosexuality with chemicals so that people don’t have children” and that he has the documentation to prove it. Upon cutting open a juice…
Just when you think that the hard left has gone soft, that they’re all either multi-culti sentimentalists or “fact”-obsessed technocrats, an essay like this one over at Salon comes along. As her title (“So what if abortion ends life?”) makes clear, Mary…
The ratio of softball nonsense (“”Everywhere in the world that I have traveled you are viewed with admiration and the respect”) to tough questions during Hillary Clinton’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was around 1500:1. Still, the whole…
Just read this piffle from CNN: House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce, R-California, met with Republicans on the committee and urged them to be respectful of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a GOP member of the Committee tells CNN. ….
Just finished listening to Mrs. Clinton’s House testimony. What a bizarre mixture of callousness: “Most of the time they [i.e., diplomatic security personnel] get it right” and sentimentality: “It’s not just a matter of policy. It’s personal” and posturing: “The United…
You already know my question. I’m wondering because this morning I read Almond’s essay “Once Upon a Time, There Was a Person Who Said, ‘Once Upon a Time’” (cute title), which apeared in last Sunday’s New York Times magazine. Almond’s not-very-clearly expressed…
