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by | Mar 16, 2024

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City has issued its first “trigger warning” for Puccini’s 1926 opera, Turandot, which takes place in ancient Peking, China. Here’s the full warning, written by Christopher Bronwer, the Met’s associate editor: We must also consider the…

by | Mar 1, 2024

A couple of days ago, while on my way to the train’s cafeteria, I bumped into an overly wide lady wearing overly narrow heels. Her heel dug into my foot violently, and, amid the silence of the carriage, my outburst…

by | Jan 30, 2024

Jay Leno no longer delves into political humor. He told Piers Morgan: “I just stopped doing politics in my act altogether because, you know, when I did The Tonight Show, the idea was you made fun of both sides equally.……

by | Jan 9, 2024

Well, of course. As someone who lives in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the nation’s fifth-largest state, this could not be ignored. President Joe Biden’s National Park Service, part of the Biden-run Department of Interior, had announced its decision to remove…

by | Jan 8, 2024

Our staunch ally, Great Britain, first known as “the sceptered isle” in Shakespeare’s Richard II, now travails against many tempests — domestic political instability, regret over Brexit, a degraded military, culture wars, denigration of the former Empire, and some diminution…

by | Dec 30, 2023

It is hard to believe that it has been forty years since the release of Trading Places (1983), the comedy that asks the age-old question: Does heredity or environment determine our destiny? Trading Places tells the story of two blue-blood…

by | Feb 9, 2023

A new meme is making the rounds, suggesting that we replace so-called violent language (e.g., “We’re going to pull the trigger”) with softer language (e.g., “We’re going to launch”). This is just the latest example of the endless and perpetual…

by | Nov 27, 2022

The Maze: A John Corey Novel By Nelson DeMille (Scribner, 432 pages, $30) If you read Nelson DeMille’s newest John Corey thriller, The Maze, right after Andrew Klavan’s A Strange Habit of Mind as I just did, you might think…

by | Nov 20, 2022

“It is rational to attack the police; nay, it is glorious. But the modern critics of religious authority are like men who should attack the police without ever having heard of burglars.” — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy Casting about for someone…

by | Oct 31, 2022

With Halloween came a new batch of articles, news segments, and podcasts lambasting and warning of unintended cultural appropriation. In an Oct. 14 PBS article, author Beatrice Alvarez admonished families that many costumes are “actually hurtful to many people because…

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