Wasn”€™t That a Time

New York had Joe Dimaggio. Boston had Ted Williams             And Washington, D.C.? Well, we had Sammy Baugh, the greatest football ...

Weyrich and Huntington: Rebels of the Establishment

In December we lost two great men, Paul Weyrich and Samuel Huntington. Both became l"€™enfant terribles in the establishments they were part of. Paul Weyrich helped create, and ...

A Tale of Two Guardianistas

A “Guardianista” is, in the English variant of our common language, someone who ascribes to the general viewpoints of The Guardian newspaper. It’s more than just ...

Maestro Mitropoulos

A recent profile on Leonard Bernstein in a New York magazine brought back memories. The Bernstein piece was obviously a hagiography, written by someone who certainly knows his ...

The Death of “€œDeep Throat”€

“De mortuis nil nisi bonum.” Of the dead, nothing but good. So said Dean Acheson of Sen. Joe McCarthy on his death in 1957. “Tailgunner Joe” had ...

Paul Weyrich (1942-2008)

Paul Michael Weyrich, a founding father of the New Right, has died. Eternity has stolen from us a great man. I first met Paul (he insisted on being called by his first name; ...

Jörg Haider (1950-2008)

On Saturday morning, around 1 am, Jörg Haider, the charismatic Austrian nationalist leader, died in an accident in foggy weather on a dangerous road outside Klagenfurt, the ...

Sam Francis & Me

You have no idea what joy lies in discovering that there is another human being in one's homeland who actually has heard of, and reads with pleasure, Samuel Francis. But so there ...

Jesse Helms (1921-2008)

Once in a lifetime there comes a legislator so great that he transcends ideologies, political parties and personalities. Such a man was Jesse A. Helms, Jr. (R-NC). His greatness ...


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