It’s depressing that all the reviews, pro or con, of Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge seem to have felt constrained to…
Sacramento California’s pension funds continue to face a fusillade of bad news, including new reports showing that retirement benefits consume…
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour,…
On a gorgeous November evening in 2008, surrounded by the shimmering lights of Times Square and swelling anticipation of the people…
As most TAS readers know, the late Williams F. Buckley Jr. was eloquent in the written and spoken word. On the page he could beguile, inform, and amuse in every form, from the 800-word column to book-length nonfiction as well as spy novels. Comes now-author and Fox newsman James Rosen to present and give context to 52 examples of a genre at which Buckley excelled, the eulogy.
No one died. No war was lost. No one was diagnosed with an incurable disease. A candidate lost her bid…
Had Leonard Cohen’s fans understood that he was a culture warrior, it’s unlikely that he would have achieved the pinnacle…
Question: Sir, about letting bygones be bygones, did you mean it? The President-Elect: Yeah, I mean it. I’ve already decided…
At the center of the vast difference between humans and every other species to call Earth home, and the fatal complication for every theory that purports to explain all, is speech. Language. It’s the main thing that separates humans from every other species, and makes possible the things that make humans human — abstract thought, the ability to remember the past and contemplate the future, to have aesthetic, intellectual, and spiritual lives.
The safe thing to say on an Election Day is that whoever wins, the sun will come up next day….