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Roger Kaplan, a Washington-based writer, covers the Middle East and Africa (and tennis) for The American Spectator.
by | Feb 19, 2024

We spoke to Roger Kaplan, the regular American Spectator tennis correspondent, on the subject of Presidents Day, who admitted to feeling peeved by the lack of response from the White House to the offer from his organization, the East Side…

by | Feb 8, 2024

The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson By Patrick Weil (Harvard University Press, 378 pages, $35) Had you told Mattie Ross that Woodrow Wilson’s reverence for his father indicated he…

by | Jan 29, 2024

Appropriately, it was an overhead forehand smash at the net that clinched the men’s doubles at the Australian Open for the Anglosphere team of Matthew Ebden and Rohan Bopanna. The big man from Bangalore, at 43 one of the masters…

by | Jan 24, 2024

Seeds are what you expect to see at tournaments’ ends, and the first major of the year, the Australian Open, is true to form, with America’s top star, Coco Gauff, winner at the U.S. Open last September, on track for…

by | Jan 21, 2024

Melbourne is in its glorious summer — not that anyone from TAS is there, except via high tech — and it is time to assess the 2024 pro tennis situation.  But after the first week of the year’s first major,…

by | Dec 5, 2023

Al Gore warned of heat stress while visiting Dubai last week, drawing admiration for speaking truth to power at a climate conference, COP28. The fearless filmmaker (An Inconvenient Truth) and scion of a famous political family, the Tennessee Gores, assailed…

by | Nov 13, 2023

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, sent a message to a large crowd — over 100,000 people, according to the Associated Press — who marched Sunday against anti-Semitism. The march was called by parliamentary leaders alarmed at a sharp spike in…

by | Nov 6, 2023

Marc Rowan, genius capitalist, worthy of Carnegie and Rockefeller in his understanding of philanthropy, going against his beloved alma mater, UPenn, for its failure of nerve against the pro-Hamas fascists. And now Bill Maher, with a short speech worthy of…

by | Oct 11, 2023

Golda Meir, leading Zionist and prime minister of Israel during the Yom Kippur War, observed that her country’s neighbors would choose terror and war over peace so long as “they hate us more than they love their children.”  It was…

by | Oct 9, 2023

The reasonable, prudent, sensible reaction to the attack on Israel is for our side to kill them all. It should be obvious, but, in these times, it is safer to say it anyway. Briefly:  “our side” = the Free World,…

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