The news came on Tuesday. French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard, who with François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette, and Éric Rohmer was a key figure of the New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) movement and a tremendous influence on such later directors…
Good taste is in free fall. Also in free fall are manners, protocols, and formality. And London’s Savile Row, the Valhalla of all things sartorial, is the latest battleground. Good taste has been in decline for years. The backward baseball…
“Today is a win,” triumphed Sen. Elizabeth Warren over the Biden plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan obligations, “and it paves the way for even more victories to come.” For the likes of Warren, Biden’s…
Mexico’s attempt at a government-run wholesale wireless communications network is the latest in a string of costly, inefficient, and ultimately disastrous government-driven communications infrastructure projects worldwide. Since its inception, the “Red Compartida” (or shared network) has been mired in impropriety…
With Roe v. Wade likely to be overturned, progressive leaders in the Democratic Party have doubled down on their efforts to insert abortion rights into the Constitution. Such efforts seem odd in light of issues like the war in Ukraine…
Perhaps the most risible, widely acclaimed children’s book in the history of children’s books is The Rainbow Fish. This book, featuring a beautiful fish with shiny scales on the cover, made it into home libraries of children everywhere. It tells…
Longtime political consultant Doug Schoen and his Democratic pollster business partner Carly Cooperman released new polling showing that “the electorate is increasingly pessimistic about the direction in which President Biden and Democrats are steering the country and feel that the party’s priorities…
What do Vladimir Putin and International Women’s Day have in common? Both were promoted by the KGB. All good jokes contain an element of truth. And there’s nothing not true about that one. Every year going back a century, communists…
The decision by Vice President Kamala Harris to attend Thursday’s inauguration of incoming Honduras President Xiomara Castro proves that anti-Semitism’s growing malignancy within the Democratic Party is not confined to the halls of Congress. Like a virus, the world’s oldest…
When the sponge is full of water, the new water runs off it. Public opinion — and myself when I’m at the bar — is like a sponge. Public opinion is becoming increasingly impermeable. In these times of information saturation,…