Today is Jacques Barzun’s 104th birthday. We all want to celebrate a great mind and a noble soul on this…
WASHINGTON — We lost a big-hearted prodigy on Sunday morning, Teddy Forstmann, financier, political player, philanthropist (especially for the young…
WASHINGTON — The death of Fred Iklé last week inspires me to prophesy. Thus far only the redoubtable Wall Street…
WASHINGTON — Last weekend I was given a hint as to how an erroneous idea is born and how it…
WASHINGTON — It is clear from the way President Barack Obama has been talking about the federal budget recently, and…
A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION looms on the horizon, and already the nation’s great organs of opinion–and occasionally of fact–are gearing up…
WASHINGTON — It is called the Taranto Principle, and it is now being employed by the Kultursmogists to blanket the…
I DO NOT know what the learned political scientists of the Republic say about it, but it seems to me…
WASHINGTON — As an observer on the national scene lo these many years, I have noted time and again that…
WASHINGTON — Supposedly this White House has just made a furious attempt to sink a book, Confidence Men: Wall Street,…
