We’ve lost another great American. Gen. Chuck Yeager, a World War II double fighter ace and the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound, died Monday in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 97. Tom Wolfe called…
Walter E. Williams, prolific author, piercing cultural commentator, old-school economist (that’s a good thing), devoted husband, loving father, and long-time friend of Grove City College, has passed from this world. To the rest of America, Williams was known as a…
Conservatism has lost an articulate champion with the death Wednesday at 84 of Walter Williams. By Thursday afternoon no cause of death had been announced. Well-read conservatives will recognize the name, as Williams was a syndicated columnist and the author…
I’ve always been more pleased than put off when friends tell me, “You’re like Lionel.” I don’t think I am very much. But there’s no shame in being compared to Lionel Hardcastle, an appealing and amusing character played pitch-perfectly by…
My wife, both shaken and stirred by the news of Sean Connery’s passing at 90, is inconsolable. Her preference for male stars of the silver screen has always run to the more rough-hewn. None of your George Clooneys or Brad…
The flag in front of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, may as well be at permanent half-staff, and the windows draped in black. Medically and politically 2020 has been a terrible year, one from which it…
It’s been a terrible month for St. Louis Cardinals greats. A month ago we lost Lou Brock to multiple myeloma (a blood and bone cancer) at age 81. Last Friday Bob Gibson lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. There’s much…
Word has just reached me of the death of Wilford Brimley, a fine character actor and a friend of liberty. Brimley died Saturday in a St. George, Utah hospital of a kidney ailment. He was 85 and had not worked…
Yesterday morning I caught a headline I expected to see many years ago: “Actress Olivia de Havilland, Dead.” I’ve long been a fan of Olivia de Havilland’s films as well as her political-ideological story. I’ve watched in amazement as she…
