Last month I had a feeling that something terrible had happened to one of my most beloved former girlfriends, Sherri Schultz. I looked for her on the internet and saw that she’d recently died. A couple of weeks before her…
Next month marks the two-year anniversary of the death of America’s funniest writer, P.J. O’Rourke. The world of journalism is a little grayer and a lot duller since then. It’s like being on a laughter diet. He knew better than…
Retired Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor died Dec. 1 in her home state of Arizona, at the age of 93. Justice O’Connor was the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, a signal…
Henry Kissinger began contributing to America’s national security during World War II. After fleeing Nazi Germany in August 1938 at the age of 15, attending George Washington High School and City College in New York, Kissinger was drafted into the…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke highly of Henry Kissinger after the former American secretary of state passed away Wednesday at the age of 100 in his Connecticut home. Kissinger was a German-born American diplomat…
Most of us, in setting out to write a doctoral dissertation, the final great requirement on the path to a Ph.D., perhaps the first real step in a dreamed-of academic career, approach it narrowly. Most doctoral dissertations remain unpublished, except…
I’ve never forgotten where I was when Bobby Knight had his chair-throwing moment. I was diagonally on the other side of the court from him, seated in temporary bleachers beneath one of the two walls that separated the main seating…
In my recent American Spectator article, I recall learning about heroes throughout childhood, focusing largely on the simple, “everyman” heroism that emerges among comrades amidst the pounding misery of large-scale infantry combat. Since Saturday morning, I’ve found myself reflecting on…
At an event long ago, someone made the mistake of saying to Vince Lombardi, “Football is a contact sport.” The great coach fixed this naïf with a cold stare and said, “No. Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a…