In the last eight or nine years, it’s felt to many Americans as if the country has changed very dramatically, if not irreversibly. A century ago, our forebears had a similar feeling. In 2016, Donald Trump was elected president and…
Taylor Swift is Time magazine’s Person of the Year, ending the suspense that, in the days and hours leading up to the announcement, was nigh on unendurable. Recalling football coach John Mackay’s line along the lines of: “win or lose,…
Now that the dust has settled, it is possible to gain a clearer understanding of the most fascinating cultural phenomenon of late summer 2023: the skyrocketing success of a completely unknown musician’s protest song. In mid-August, Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men…
If you’ll forgive the reference to the Elvis Costello classic of yesteryear, “Oliver’s Army” has grown up out of the hustings, and our elites simply refuse to reckon with it. The same thing keeps manifesting again and again in America,…
As the flag lowers on Pride Month 2023, we stand enlightened by yet another variation in the “LGBTQ” acronym, courtesy of America’s intrepid cultural revolutionaries. For a while, it evolved to “LGBTQIA+.” You know what LGBTQ stands for, but for…
I watched Dead Poets Society again after many years. As I like to live dangerously, I put it on for a group of children between the ages of 10 and 13. Too soon, you might say. Maybe, but kids at…
WASHINGTON — Last week in this space I wrote about culture and how essential it is to the politics of a nation. If the culture of a country is upbeat, the country will be fine. If the culture of a…
Despite a recent high-profile court victory, Ed Sheeran isn’t in love with the shape of copyright law. In a case that has attracted international attention, the estate of the late Ed Townsend claimed that Sheeran unlawfully copied elements of “Let’s…
America is plagued by inflation and headed, perhaps, for economic collapse. Illegals flood across our border. We’re funding a European conflict that could turn into World War III. Our dubious 2020 election saddled us with an incomparably incorrupt, hollow shell…
The mustache, Adolphe Menjou meets Errol Flynn, foreshadowed the end. Muhammad Ali jarringly wore one prior to his disastrous fight with Larry Holmes. Now Vince McMahon, for the first time in his five decades or so in the spotlight, wears…