Editor’s Note: Last week tragedy struck and deprived the serious reading world of Terry Teachout, the arts and theatre critic of the Wall Street Journal since 2003, a monthly essayist for Commentary magazine, a major biographer of everyone from Louis…
Washington — He is alive! Norman Podhoretz is alive, and he agreed to an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s very perceptive Barton Swaim this weekend. He says that many of his peers are now deceased but not him, and…
The most destructive idea from President Joe Biden’s administration is a Department of Justice move to pay around $450,000 to undocumented immigrants for the emotional trauma they experienced thanks to former President Donald Trump’s 2018 family-separation policy. Break the law….
Doubtless you’ve heard the news. Here’s the headline per Fox News: SINISTER SABOTAGE? Facebook and Instagram down in major social media outage and it gets worse from there The Fox story begins this way: Facebook’s platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp,…
When I was young (long ago and far away) I spent about a half dozen years as a reporter for daily newspapers, most of those years for a county-wide daily called The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida. I was obliged in…
So there’s this from Wyoming’s Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney in response to a statement from former President Trump. Said Trump: The Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020 will be, from this day forth, known as THE BIG LIE! Replied Cheney, she…
Washington According to the Washington Times — also known as the Good Times — last week the Biden administration made plans “to offer grants for U.S. history classes that teach critical race theory and the ‘1619 Project,’ ” which is…
In an excellent piece in the Wall Street Journal last week, Phil Gramm and John Early made a convincing, fact-supported case that, contrary to what is repeatedly asserted and widely believed, income inequality in the U.S. is lower now than it was 50…
Much has changed over the last year. One big change is increased reliance on online shopping. The Wall Street Journal recently ran a story entitled “Are You a Catalog Person?” It was filled with advice on how to become a catalog maven,…
