It’s been over a month since the passing of Winnie Mandela, a controversial figure both admired and reviled. South Africans…
This column has, to date, not analyzed the manifest problems with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of President Trump for…
Elizabeth Warren insists she isn’t running for president, but she acts like a candidate. She’s raising campaign wampum at a…
Joseph Epstein’s latest collection of essays, The Ideal of Culture, is an occasion for Epstein’s long-time readers — count me in this category — and an opportunity for those who’ve not yet had the pleasure. It has certainly been a pleasure for me reading Epstein’s stories and essays — these last run from newspaper column length to one-subject books. A pleasure because Epstein’s work is a rarely found combination of insights, humor, liveliness, and penetrating observations on the Vanity Fair we call life. This is likely why publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Atlantic, the Weekly Standard, the New Yorker, and, I’m pleased to add, The American Spectator, have published his work over the decades. The essays in Ideal first appeared in one or the other of this lineup between 2007 and just the other day.
Rancho Mirage So… it’s late on Saturday night. I’ve had my friend Judah drive me down to our home at…
Anniversaries are a traditional opportunity for reflection. Two centuries ago Karl Marx was born. Considering the consequences of his life…
Washington The U.S. Senate faces a clear choice as it prepares to confirm — or reject — acting CIA Director…
What happens when conservatives win the House, the Senate, the majority of governorships and state houses and still lose the…
In a 1993 article called “Defining Deviancy Down,” Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote of proliferation of the deinstitutionalized mentally ill,…
