When Martin Scorsese makes a movie, attention must be paid. His films have been nominated for an Oscar, in various…
It was Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, and Lt. j.g. Aloysius Schmitt, had just finished saying Sunday Mass for the…
Oscar Wilde they’re not. Hillary Clinton’s description of Donald Trump’s supporters as “a basket of deplorables.” Trump’s weakness for dreaming…
The other day John Bolton, our former ambassador to the United Nations, was the guest on FOX’s noontime program, “Outnumbered.”…
Mention the phrase “patron saints” and plenty of people, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, will think it a quaint, outdated custom…
THE ONE yearbook you don’t want to find your children in is The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual…
WE HEAR much about “the coarsening of the culture” nowadays but I submit that there is something worse, and that…
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to LeadBy Sheryl Sandberg(Alfred A. Knopf, 228 pages, $28.95) A half-century has now…
ABOUT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON ON MAY 7, 1784, not long after dinner had been served at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson…
Civil war historians and enthusiasts will argue over the greatest Confederate general, or whether Mary Todd Lincoln was certifiable or…
