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…
The headlines are flush with China’s moves on the global chessboard. China brokered an agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran in which the Middle East rivals restored diplomatic relations after a seven-year rift, causing observers to suggest that China is…
Count Basie made it into one of the most popular pieces of the big-band jazz era, brass and solo horn and discreet piano — the bandleader himself — keeping the melody from going overboard with happiness or letting the contrasting…
You wouldn’t know it judging by the huge and angry crowds in France protesting against the rather tame government plan to raise the retirement age, but some citizens are in favor of it. In interviews, members of this small and…
The Left is fixated on globalism. The UN. Davos. The São Paulo Forum. I don’t believe in grand conspiracies, but neither do I believe in coincidences. The plan is clear. On the other hand, the Right is incapable of coming…
I am a columnist. Which is the same as saying that I collect idiots. I have them in all shapes and colors. My favorite idiot is this columnist that collects idiots. But I won’t be talking about that wretch today,…
“There is no indication that this was a deliberate Russian aggression on NATO,” affirmed Jens Stoltenberg, the Western military alliance’s secretary general, on Wednesday, following the explosion of a missile in the Polish border town of Przewodów. He said that…
France’s President Emmanuel Macron may have a penchant for ambivalence — he often adds en meme temps (“at the same time”) to a declarative sentence — but, on the matter of Armageddon, he is unambiguous, as in his remarks on…
It isn’t every day that the French president and the bishop of Rome are accused of trafficking in stolen goods, but that is precisely what happened earlier this week. During an hour-long Oct. 24 private audience in the Vatican’s Secretariat…
