French President Emmanuel Macron is in trouble, again, not for raising the retirement age, but for his recent visit to China. Before he went, people in the democratic world hoped he would use the opportunity to relay our concerns to…
Sixty years ago, Beatlemania was rocking the world of music. Writing in the Atlantic, Colin Fleming refers to 1963 as “that magical and formative year for the band,” “the year the Beatles found their voice,” and “the band’s annus mirabilis.”…
Progressives are much more upset than conservatives over Jane Fonda’s suggestion last Friday on The View that abortion opponents should be murdered. Even conservative-bashing harridan Joy Behar nervously tried to pass off the comment as a joke, with no support…
The United States, writes Max Boot in the Washington Post, has “exaggerated fears about Chinese power.” Boot compares U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael A. Minihan — whose memo revealed Chinese President Xi Jinping’s October 2022 “war council” and who has…
Election denialism hurts a candidate, no matter which side of the aisle he or she is on. Former President Donald Trump lost a fair share of his credibility among conservatives following his unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud in the…
Nobody thought it was going to be a humble shuffling off into anonymity. And I suppose we cannot begrudge the most celebrated bureaucrat in the U.S. government a final retracing of his much-trodden path through the green rooms of New…
Some famous writers are forgotten the moment they kick off. Joan Didion, who passed away at age 87 two days before Christmas last year, isn’t one of them. It’s not because her work is so monumental. Her screenplays for movies…
This is I, / Hamlet the Dane. — Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1 Unless you count the giant, icy island of Greenland — which is fifty times its size with a hundredth of its population — Denmark is a tiny…
Fox News and other media outlets report that actor Harrison Ford got emotional when he announced at Disney’s D23 expo on Saturday that the fifth installment of the Indiana Jones movies will be his last time portraying the popular action-movie…
I suspect that there were more than a few youngish New York Times readers who, on July 14, were baffled to turn a page and encounter a 2,500-word think piece about Janeane Garofalo. Jane who? Perhaps you’re too young to…