Patrick O'Hannigan

When Paul Chesser turned a spotlight on “Blueprint NC” in this space last month, he did his homework, which is…

American astronomer J. Allen Hynek shuffled off this mortal coil in 1986, but I wonder what he would have made…

The golden thread running through Spectator articles about this year’s March for Life deserves a mention of its own, if…

My son takes a bus to school, but my daughter does not, and the carpool lane where she and I…

Big-time American opinion makers have again been exposed as the sentimentalists that so many of them are. Their coddling of…

Suzanne Collins bottled lightning in writing her Hunger Games trilogy. Now that reviewers beyond the work’s original young adult demographic have…

The deliberately vague language of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 that cited newly elected President Barack Obama for “extraordinary…

Election 2012 is shaping up as a Catch-22 for Republicans. Its outcome depends on whether “more of the same” can…

The only Native American writer I know gave permission for a literary journal to republish thoughts about Thanksgiving that she…