Wlady Pleszczynski
I’ve never forgotten where I was when Bobby Knight had his chair-throwing moment. I was diagonally on the other side of the court from him, seated in temporary bleachers beneath one of the two walls that separated the main seating…
This can’t be a happy time at the Wall Street Journal, what with its Russia-based reporter Evan Gershkovich being held hostage in a Stalinist prison. His reporting made the WSJ proud. Certainly it outpaced the New York Times, which is…
Late this morning, we received this dreadful news: “It is with great sadness that the family of George Neumayr announces his untimely passing on January 19, 2023. He was abroad in Côte d’Ivoire, Africa, living out his passion for defending…
At our annual Robert L. Bartley Gala on October 20, keynote speaker Newt Gingrich delivered his funniest line in characteristic Newt form when he said, “We have today a president who on a good day is an idiot.” Since November…
I’ve known Ukrainians my entire life. My parents’ circle of post–World War II émigré friends included a few mixed marriages. In one case the two children of one such lively marriage saw the daughter follow her father and identify as…
P.J. O’Rourke’s full name was Patrick Jake O’Rourke. It was so like P.J. to obscure the coolest middle name out there. Everyone’s world stopped when word got out Tuesday that he had died. He was one of those rare creatures…
Editor’s Note: Last week tragedy struck and deprived the serious reading world of Terry Teachout, the arts and theatre critic of the Wall Street Journal since 2003, a monthly essayist for Commentary magazine, a major biographer of everyone from Louis…
When last we met in this space, the subject of the aging Joe Biden’s mental acuity came up. I essentially contended that he wasn’t as far gone as many conservatives would have it. But now I’m not so sure. Since…
Maybe in selecting Joe Biden as his running mate, Barack Obama was just setting us up. Think back to the glory of 2008. Did Obama ever once display serious respect for the clownish, graying, and malapropish senator from the great…
