The meteoric rise and fall of Quarterback Kenny Pickett in Pittsburgh in less than two short years (actually, in Pickett’s case, less than a year and a half of games) is taking the NFL by storm. Personally, it’s the most…
Updated 12:35 P.M., March 16, 2024. I wrote earlier this week about the new feminist feature film, Cabrini, a shockingly secularized story of a sainted nun converted into a warrior woman battling bigotry. I focused on the film’s remarkable sin…
If you’d like to see a movie about a saint utterly gutted of religious meaning this Lenten season, piqued by a perverse curiosity of what such a spectacle might look like, then go see Cabrini. It’s quite the marvel: a…
In April 1845, Karl Marx’s mother-in-law sent to the Marx family a nanny named Helene Demuth, known as “Lenchen.” Marx’s long-suffering wife, Jenny, was thrilled. After all, she had long expressed the wish that Karl would “earn some capital rather…
“Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.” So declared Joseph Stalin, the murderous tyrant whose own death arrived on March 5, 1953, five months after the birth of Vladimir Putin. Stalin’s death solved a great problem for his vast…
One figure that liberals haven’t commemorated this Black History Month is Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther Party ringleader of the 1960s. The reason is no great mystery: Had Cleaver remained a radical leftist, he would be hailed by the Left…
In a breaking story that will have serious international implications, we’re just learning from the Russians that dissident and opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in Vladimir Putin’s gulag. Specifically, the 47-year-old Navalny perished in a brutal Arctic concentration camp…
There were seven. Seven figures above all, with varying influences, some more intentional than others, who brought down the Berlin Wall, freed Eastern Europe from communism, took down the Soviet Union, and peacefully ended the Cold War. They were Ronald…
Ronald Reagan’s Enduring Principles: How They Can Promote Political Success Today By Donald J. Devine (The Fund for American Studies, 177 pages, $10) Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this date, Feb. 6, over a century ago — 1911. It…