Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna Edited by Noah Isenberg; translated by Shelley Frisch (Princeton University Press, 224 pages, $19 paperback) How did Billy Wilder (1906-2002) become the Hollywood legend who created such film classics…
A coming crisis over Taiwan is now popularly treated as a foregone conclusion. China is increasing its military budget, expanding its fleet, and securing regional allies, all the while saber-rattling over its small democratic neighbor. But uncertainty still underpins the…
Your Baby & Child: The Classic Childcare Guide, Revised and Updated By Penelope Leach (Knopf, 640 pages, $20) Marigold and Rose: A Fiction By Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 64 pages, $22) When I first suspected I was pregnant,…
Vignettes and Vino: Dinner Table Stories from the Trump White House with Recipes and Cocktail Pairings By Brian and Teresa Morgenstern (Post Hill Press, 160 pages, $30) Washington, D.C.: the mere mention of it can make a conservative shudder. I…
Joe Biden’s presidency and the narrow Democratic majorities in Congress have done great damage to the American economy. Republicans have been unable to stop the tax-and-spend tsunami because the Democrats can use the reconciliation process to govern alone with their…
A message to Americans: you may not be interested in transgenderism, but transgenderism is interested in you — especially if you have school-age children or grandchildren. You may not fully realize it, but, when it comes to this subject, you…
Ya can’t make it up. In this year’s midterms, the Republican leader of the United States Senate went out of his way to defeat Republican candidates for the United States Senate. Yes, you read that right. Here, for example, is…
Americans are increasingly coming to the conclusion that Democrats irreversibly damaged the nation through their pandemic restrictions. Nowhere is this more true than in the decline of American churches, which were gutted by onerous rules and outright bans that stretched…
While Americans were doomscrolling through election results on the morning of November 9, something more consequential than the Democrats’ potentially holding the Senate was unfolding: an ominous round of tech layoffs. According to internal documents, Meta (formerly Facebook, Inc.) is…
“Who run the world? Girls! Girls, we run this mutha!” These lines, from Beyoncé’s catchy tune eponymously named “Run the World (Girls),” could also be the title of the Democrats’ greatest election hits since Barack Obama’s tenure. Single ladies make…