With seven days to go until the election, there’s no way a weekly columnist can keep up with the rapid-fire developments that’ll surely be cracklin’ like a burning log on Fox and CNN as we speak. So I’m not even gonna ...

Pop music, like anything showbiz, is hardly as it appears. The gap between a pop star’s public and private politics can be as deceiving as anything. This is the lesson the singer Morrissey is battling, once again. He has had a ...

If there's one thing I hate, it's an inscrutable Asian. Not because of the inscrutability, mind you, but rather because I despise seeing people conform to shopworn stereotypes. Last week, L.A. Times "€œinvestigative arts reporter"€ ...

"€œI was never a true believer, but the money was good."€ When I started writing about politics and hanging around with conservatives, I started hearing leftists say the weirdest crap. Stuff that stank of desperation, like some ...

Robert Conquest"€”celebrated both as a poet and a historian of Soviet Russia"€”was at one point lecturing throughout the US. As the story is told, people would come up afterward and say things like, “I understand you"€™re ...

In the latest issue of Quadrant, Peter Kocan complains about my "€œsourness"€ in depicting the paleoconservative persuasion in my autobiography, Encounters. Peter is shocked that someone who is described as "€œAmerica's leading ...

Under discussion: Mark Levin, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Threshold Editions (2009), 256 pages The first paragraph of the first chapter of Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, the talk radio ...