You know you’re getting old when you go out one night and convince all your friends to walk to the other side of town to a wonderful little pub you know, only to find out that it is now a…
When did Amber Heard, Jussie Smollett, and Christine Blasey Ford become the fact checkers at the nation’s leading media outlets? Earlier this month, the Indianapolis Star reported that Ohio law compelled a 10-year-old girl to cross state lines into Indiana…
What drives and motivates America’s most dangerous adversary, Chinese President Xi Jinping? As war clouds gather over the western Pacific, it would be helpful to know what makes Xi tick. Two of the world’s most interesting and provocative strategic analysts…
I’m looking for a guy I may have left without offspring. It happened a few weeks ago. It was on one of those flights to which I seem to be treating myself quite a lot recently, from Madrid to Galicia,…
The hosts of the daytime talk show The View criticized Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez on Wednesday over her handling of a colleague’s social media post that has caused a public meltdown at the paper. The controversy began when fellow…
Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton’s Columns, Commentaries, and Criticism By Roger Scruton (Bloomsbury Continuum, 256 pages, $28) Nearly everything in this collection originally appeared in a newspaper or a magazine, among these the one you are holding…
Up until now, one of the advantages of being a man is that your toiletry bag could fit in a pack of cigarettes. These days you need a suitcase to carry it all. In one of my attempts to be…
My old friend Quin Hillyer made an excellent point in a recent Washington Examiner op-ed. Today’s gender confusion — from female “actors” to male “expectant mothers” — has set heads spinning, and not just for the physical impossibility of that…
A professional journalism council denied full accreditation to the prestigious University of North Carolina Hussman School of Journalism and Media on the basis that the school did not meet the council’s standard for “diversity and inclusiveness.” The president of the…