I recently did a duplex book review for a respectable conservative quarterly (relevant issue not yet in print). The two books I reviewed, this one and this one, were of the ...
So how are you doing at keeping up with events in MENA (the Middle East and North Africa)? Can the new Iraqi government get some kind of military act together? Will the Kurds ...
Zero Shades of Gray. The U.S. Supreme Court punted on homosexual "marriage" the other day. I can"t summon up much interest, having long since sunk into fatalism on ...
History is full of strange folds, wrinkles, and repetitions. Consider for example the following true story. There was once a great empire of the despotic-bureaucratic sort. It ...
A new study on world population trends came out last week from the University of Washington in Seattle. If you"re one of those people who worry about an overpopulated world, ...
An opinion journalist is expected to take a stand on newsy issues, even ones he doesn"t much care about. This is especially so when the issue relates to the British Isles and ...
I have taken another trip on my syllogismobile to an alternate universe. Among the artifacts I brought back with me was A.J. Braithwaite's History of Britain (2011 edition), a ...
The Derbs"Mr., Mrs., and Missy"spent two weeks in Alaska. Here are some random observations. Positively the last family vacation. Most people who visit Alaska nowadays ...
Do I get downhearted? Yes I do. You think it's easy, living on the red pill? In that world-bestriding bestseller We Are Doomed I introduced readers to the theory of Depressive ...
From the police blotter: New York City police have arrested a man wanted for raping a woman after forcing his way into her Upper Manhattan apartment. Jean Rodriguez ... ...
I have just finished reading David Lebedoff's 2008 book The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War. No, this isn"t a book review"it's a bit late for ...
You can"t faze a New Yorker. After all these years in the Big Apple, I really should know better than to try conclusions with the natives. Place: Track 8 platform ...
A few columns ago I mentioned in passing that the Mrs. and I had been watching Breaking Bad. This brought some inquiries about whether we got to the end of it, and what I ...
The title I wanted for my 2009 call to pessimism was We Are Doomed, Doomed. The publisher thought that was too dark, though, so I settled at last for just one "Doomed." A ...
I"ll admit I went to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum with a bad attitude. Why are we memorializing a humiliation? Two of our proudest buildings were leveled and some 3,000 of ...
Wednesday this week marks the 25th anniversary of the Chinese army's retaking Tiananmen Square from anti-regime protestors, an event known to Chinese by the date as ...
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