Sometimes liberal elites cannot disguise their anti-Catholic attitudes. We all remember California Sen. Dianne Feinstein expressing concern at Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing that “the dogma lives loudly” in her, meaning Barrett’s devout Catholicism apparently poses a danger to…

As a practicing Anglophile, heavy TV news consumer, and borderline insomniac, there was no chance that I would miss the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The 4 a.m. ET start of coverage was less a deterrent than a lure.  I…

Three months ago, colorful crowds caroused in the streets of London as the queen stepped onto the Buckingham Palace balcony to celebrate her 70th year on the throne. Today, the streets are quiet, grey, and bleak. A cloud of melancholy…

As the dust settles after a week of speculation as to who will succeed Boris Johnson as prime minister, the choices have now narrowed down to former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. The announcement…

Ever since U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation on July 7 amid waves of scandals and resignations, the question of who will succeed him has swirled. Conservative candidate Tom Tugendhat describes the contentious election as “a battle of…

After the Russian invasion on Feb. 24, Ukrainian refugees arriving in Poland reacted with delight and even shock to the warmth of their reception. “We have everything, really everything, even too much stuff. The people here are amazing, so generous,…

This week I’ve been with Joel — my flamboyant translator — drinking in Madrid night after night, committing misdemeanors while the police were busy with the NATO summit. From behind the tinted windows of a secret bar, the kind that…

For the second weekend in a row, I observed a phenomenon that signaled a major rightward shift in the political-cultural axis. The previous weekend brought the enormous box-office success of Top Gun: Maverick, which came as a shock to everyone…

While the Oscars, Emmys, and other American award shows are fading into irrelevance, Europe’s big splashy annual entertainment competition, Eurovision, whose 2022 finals took place in Turin, Italy, last Saturday, seems to get bigger every year. Bigger, and worse. There…

A few days before the first round of the French presidential election, which in effect serves as a primary inasmuch as the different factions of left, right, and center compete for the chance to represent their blocs in the runoff,…