Last Monday I reported that Monsignor Walter Rossi, the rector of D.C.’s Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception,…
At the beginning of the Trump presidency, a few cautious editors, such as the Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker, questioned…
Washington I spent my first 30-plus years in the newspaper business as an editorial writer and later a columnist. Like…
Over the weekend, Salon published a list of “The 25 conservatives actually worth following on Twitter,” which turned out to…
On the occasion of my 50th anniversary of founding and editing The American Spectator, I feel moved to reflect on the parlous condition of the magazine business. We celebrated our anniversary just last night, and naturally I composed my reflections before the event. What makes this column something more than an occasion for indulgence is that the sickly condition of magazines is, of a sudden, a hot news item.
“She spent evenings with the art books Yankel had bought for her in Lutsk, and each morning sulked over breakfast….
A writer friend and I were email rapping on the current state of journalism, and the general worthlessness of j-school…
“Follow the money” is lousy advice for a journalist. The catchphrase, which is spoken by Hal Holbrook’s Deep Throat in…
Disgraced lefty Journalist Juan Thompson, a Muslim convert, and serial fabulator fired from The Intercept, called in bomb threats to…
There is standard progression in the world where journalism and politics intersect. After years of reporting and watching newsrooms shrink,…