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Book Review: ‘A Moment in Time’Feb 15 2018 A Moment in Time reminded me of English women expatriates I had met in the South of France more than fifty years ago. They were |
Cultural Caviar
Ski SalonsJan 13 2018 What I miss most up here in the Alps are the literary lunches conducted on the fly with writers like Bill Buckley, Alistair Horne, Natasha |
Cultural Caviar
Listen for the NoiseDec 19 2017 Rose-colored glasses conceded, the ’50s were still the best decade ever. Uncle Sam was propping up recovering Europe, our borders were not being overrun, the |
Politics
Saudi ShakedownDec 05 2017 If you thought comedy was dead, take a look at the newest Napoleon on the block, the one wearing sandals and a tablecloth on his |
Politics
The Mystery of Socialism’s Enduring AppealOct 18 2017 This is very strange. I left the old continent a disunited mess, with African immigrants overrunning the place and an unelected and unaccountable bureaucratic elite |
Commerce
Sins of Silicon ValleyOct 03 2017 Instead of getting life without parole in one of those white isolation cells in the toughest of jails for aiding and abetting terrorism, he is |
Commerce
The Haiti of EuropeAug 31 2017 Greece is a small beautiful country in the southeastern part of Europe, a place of jasmine, bougainvillea, mimosa, cypresses, olive trees, pines, oregano, sage, and |
Cultural Caviar
The Gender RacketAug 24 2017 One of my many regrets is that when I was young and on the tennis circuit, I played as a man. I had a crush |
Cultural Caviar
Stay HungaryJun 30 2017 Once upon a time the American Establishment enjoyed business paragons such as David Rockefeller, Daniel Ludwig, William Paley, Henry Ford II, not to mention Thomas |
Cultural Caviar
A Monumental DisgraceJun 20 2017 They"re falling like dominoes, starting with the great Robert E. Lee, whose statue went down with a yank of a crane in a jiffy, after |
Cultural Caviar
To Tell You the Truth…Apr 21 2017 If the Clintons were not as down-market as they are, they would have fit in perfectly in 15th-century Florence, the city that gave us Botticelli |
Cultural Caviar
Poor Uncle SamMar 31 2017 William F. Buckley spent his adult winter months in Rougemont, an alpine resort next to its chicer neighbor Gstaad, now a mecca for the nouveaux |
Cultural Caviar
What the Zuck?!Mar 06 2017 Who was it who said that behind every great fortune lies a great crime? The answer is a Frenchman by the name of Balzac, known |
Issue of the Century
What a MessFeb 15 2017 I write this from a small village high up in the Swiss Alps, where I have just left the tiny police station with a warning: |
Oy Vey!
The Best of Times, the Worst of ‘Times’Dec 02 2016 Even by modern, cataclysmically hysterical standards, the postelection histrionics by the losers take the proverbial cake. Poor Graydon Carter, the Vanity Fair honcho. He wrote |
Cultural Caviar
Book RetortsNov 08 2016 American writers are on a roll. Bob Dylan wins the Nobel in Literature (for backward children), and Paul Beatty the Man Booker Prize, the first |
Politics
Fat Cats Are Wearing ThinOct 10 2016 A bunch of charlatans and clowns met in Athens, Greece, at the end of September and, to use an old Greek expression, managed to make |
Cultural Caviar
A Dream Wedding…for the TabloidsSep 01 2016 The Brits are big on weddings, and Pippa is getting hitched sometime this autumn, or maybe later on, when the English weather is at its |
Cultural Caviar
Losing GamesAug 25 2016 In the summer of 1992 BC (before Clinton) I was cruising in Greece with William F. Buckley and his wife, Pat, on board the boat |
Cultural Caviar
Glitz and GoreAug 03 2016 The Negresco is a beautiful rococo belle epoque hotel built around the turn of the last century on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, south |
Cultural Caviar
Lists to Live ByJul 18 2016 As a child, the only list I had ever heard about was the FBI Ten Most Wanted. Then a lady who wrote about fashion"Eugenia Sheppard, |
Politics
More Questions Than AnswersJun 27 2016 Dancing around an unpleasant reality is what politics are all about nowadays"Donald Trump excluded"with political correctness the enveloping cloud that hides truth and the facts. |
Cultural Caviar
When Harry Met Taki…Jun 03 2016 Things have never been grimmer. Wall Street wolves have become billionaires while rigging the system, rats like William Kristol are showboating on television and spreading |
Issue of the Century
Cowards, Go Reproduce YourselvesMay 06 2016 Once the French had cleared out of Moscow in October 1812, special commissions were set up to investigate those who had played nice with the |
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With Apologies to Nathan HaleApr 28 2016 The English writer E.M. Forster infamously said that if he had to betray either his country or a friend, he hoped he would betray the |
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Out of BoundsMar 01 2016 Althea Gibson was a black American lady tennis player who won Wimbledon and many other major championships during the late "50s. She was also a |
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