I live across the street from a high school, and every weekend I get an earful of whatever music is popular among the young and reckless. For about a year, it was nothing (thank you, Gov. Northam), but ever since…

I Must Betray You By Ruta Sepetys Philomel Books, 336 pages, $19 Ruta Sepetys writes about a different kind of vampire. The young adult novelist’s new book, I Must Betray You, is set in Romania, an Eastern European country whose…

Iliff School of Theology is an official theological school and approved seminary of the United Methodist Church that in 2017 received $806,763 from the denomination to train future ordinands. The school was founded in 1892 as part of Colorado Seminary…

When you walk into a high-end cocktail bar these days, there’s a good chance you’ll notice something a little different. Many of these mixology havens are now offering drinks that seem to be missing a key ingredient: alcohol.  This is…

And on the fortieth day, Tom Brady unretired. In an NFL off-season that has been defined by change, the legendary quarterback’s announcement that he was going to return for his twenty-third season after all might have been the most momentous….

Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton’s Columns, Commentaries, and Criticism By Roger Scruton (Bloomsbury Continuum, 256 pages, $28) Nearly everything in this collection originally appeared in a newspaper or a magazine, among these the one you are holding…

Few might have realized it at the time, but the year 1845 was significant, indeed seminal, in the history of the Ukrainian people. It was the year that the preternaturally gifted poet and painter Taras Shevchenko produced some of his…

The Biden administration is dead-set on taking your money.  Plan A was to repeal the entire Trump tax cut and vastly increase corporate and individual income taxes on top of new taxes on energy. Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema…

In recent years, the typical American household has spent around 5 percent of its pre-tax budget on gasoline. Apart from housing, food, and transportation — the actual cost of vehicles and their insurance — petrol is an essential item on…

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…