From the moment that The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs first appeared, I’ve been a fan.  With his skewering of Silicon Valley culture and his incisive, yet still humorous critiques of tech journalism, “Fake Steve” quickly developed an audience that went far beyond Mac users.  Speculation about the identity of “Fake Steve” made the pages of the Wall Street Journal, the … [Read More]

A recent NR review by Ronald Radosh of M. Stanton Evans’s defense of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Blacklisted by History, has caused me to think about two phases of the postwar conservative movement. The first of these phases, and the one from whence Evans himself comes, took place in the 1950s, when McCarthyism became a pillar of the National Review ideology. Looking … [Read More]

While the AIPAC spy case may never make it to court—the defense, which is the best money can buy, has so far succeeded in delaying the trial for over two years—some interesting details are coming out, anyway. A recent piece in The Washingtontonian has several interesting tidbits, including the news that: “A search of AIPAC’s offices in 2002 that appears to … [Read More]

With all the focus on the presidential primaries, very little attention has been given to some major changes at the Washington Times even within the narrow world of conservative beltway politicos and journalists. Times editor in chief Wes Pruden has been expected to retire for quite some time, and it was assumed that he would be succeeded by managing editor Fran … [Read More]

In the comments to my post “All Your Thoughts Are Belong To Us,” “MS” (an appropriate pseudonym) remarked, “I’ll never understand why liberals like Apple so much.  As if it’s the computer of the anti-establishment.”  To which I replied, jokingly, that “I agree.  Clearly, the Mac is the computer for intelligent conservatives.”  (You can tell that it’s at least partly a … [Read More]

GSTAAD—I’ve been watching the Australian tennis open on the telly and boring myself to sleep. The modern game is too one-dimensional, the players too predictable. The pumping of the fist after a winner is now de rigueur, as is the tapping of the ball five, 10, in the case of Nadal, 16 times before serving. And the rallies are much too … [Read More]

I leapt from my easy chair as soon as I read it. Stunned, I rushed down the stairs shouting to my wife, “You won’t believe what this review in National Review is accusing Stan of—plagiarism!”  Nothing I have read in National Review during my over 30 years as a subscriber shocked and angered me more than Ron Radosh’s nasty review (Dec. … [Read More]

As you read this, I will be shuffling through a series of planes, trains and automobiles from the glittering, patriotic sprawl of Dallas, Texas to the involuted warrens of once-pagan, then-papal, now neo-pagan Rome. Once I’m there, I will be tagging along for the next few months on a series of daily lecture tours in the churches, galleries, catacombs and other … [Read More]

in New Hampshire, Canadian National  National (and New York)  Post neocontent provider Mark Steyn has  distracted me from Bill Kristol’s New York Times debut by going  postal at a Jersey paper’s illiberal ‘complaint that half of Rudy Guiliani’s  neoconsigleri are Canadian: They’re Fencing the Wrong Border "Forget Walt and Mearsheimer and the Israel lobby. That’s just a front for the … [Read More]

While reading Rod Dreher’s recent essay on “Putting Faith in Obama,” I began to feel like I was watching the final two minutes of many a B-grade vampire flick. It’s a bright summer day, the hero has killed off all the evil vampires (or so he thinks) and is just about to enjoy a nice drive in the country with his … [Read More]