“I feel only sympathy for the Russians. No people have suffered as much death.” That was the response of a colleague of mine, Jan, a Polish professor and adviser to the Solidarity movement in the 1980s. I had hosted Jan…
Odesa May 6, 1900 (Old Style) The crowd in Katerynynska Square grows larger with each passing moment, fed by a continuous stream of pedestrians making their way down Katerynynska Street, or up the sandstone steps of the Primorsky Stairs, toward…
Postjudice, a perfectly cromulent word, characterizes a reaction, extraordinary mostly in its ordinariness, to the elderly Asian man murdering 11 mostly older Asians at a Monterey Park, California, dance hall. “Was the shooting an act of anti-Asian bigotry?” University of…
Forgive me, dear readers. This past weekend, on Sunday, the Lord’s Day, the Women’s March recommenced in Washington, D.C., and your faithful correspondent, who in years past dutifully reported on the Women’s March, failed to notice. I am filing this…
The GOP-led House of Representatives passed a bill last week that, in CNN’s words, “would require health care providers to try to preserve the life of an infant in the rare case that a baby is born alive during or…
“Tough Love in a Demanding Family,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, Dec. 15, 2022.
Steven Mosher, author of Bully of Asia — a book that contends that the Chinese Communist Party under President Xi Jinping seeks to “continuously expand its power to achieve [global] hegemony” — recently reached out to four of his friends…
“I hope you have to watch everyone you love die of cancer you irredeemable, subhuman f**kstick.” So wrote the winsome Stephen in response to a piece I did for a Catholic publication that detailed the death of Pennsylvania as a…
Actress Anne Hathaway appeared on ABC’s The View this week to promote her films, including The Devil Wears Prada, a movie that is now 16 years old. The discussion quickly turned diabolical as Hathaway mused about the importance of killing…
