A historic preservation group that sued to block construction of President Donald Trump's White House ballroom urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to suspend the project while it considers whether the work can continue.
Weeks after President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, pundits and politicos are still looking at the returns to see how he pulled it off. For people of a certain age — specifically, those born between 1965 and 1980 — a particularly interesting question is: Why did Trump do […]
What should President-elect Donald Trump do on Day One? The answer is clear for Pennsylvania, where the president-elect campaigned the most and delivered a historic victory. Trump won Pennsylvania in large part by promising to end the Biden administration’s war on natural gas, the energy source that powers the state’s and the country’s economic future. His most […]
One of the more likable qualities of the clunkily titled Cher: The Memoir, Part One is that its author appears to have taken great delight in writing it. Cher guides the reader through the first half of her inimitable life and career with chutzpah. She begins with her impoverished and often miserable childhood in California, […]
Come January 2025, Democrats will not control a single branch of the federal government, as Republicans take the White House and Senate while retaining a slender House majority. The real action in Washington will largely be on the right side of the aisle. But in a polarized country, an out-of-power party’s time in the political […]
The war on women is over. Or rather, the war on women never was. The 2024 presidential campaign was the culmination of decades of unhinged paranoia from the Left. Democrats no longer warn that the opposition is wrong or misguided. They warn that fascistic forces led by a would-be Hitler would, among many other depravities, […]
Is Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) a philosophical analysis of language, a political allegory of liberal overreach, or a Menippean satire that, by following curiosity over the edge of logic, exposes legal order as a word game, proving nothing but its own emptiness? You know from the question that the answer is “All of the […]
The 2024 elections seem to be, at least for now, proof that Americans have rejected woke liberal messaging. Evidently, our brothers and sisters across the pond missed that memo as they/them try to import those ideas with their … luxury cars? Jaguar, the luxury car brand of Jaguar Land Rover, has committed to a bizarre […]
As I’m typing this, to my left is a very long shelf that mostly contains novels by Barbara Pym, Muriel Spark, Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Moore, and Marly Youmans. A shelf above has a run of novels by Thomas Pynchon next to a number by Thomas Bernhard. Another shelf features Peter Handke. A photo of Herta […]
Senators may still have some real substantive concerns about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of Health and Human Services, but his decision to tap Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health is the right choice. A Stanford University professor of economic and health policy, […]
Here is a tale of two once-great cities. They lost their steel mills and auto plants. The factories went quiet. The populations dwindled. In spite of that, they never lost their football teams, which became sources of ragged pride amid snowy desolations. Now, these survivors stand at the edge of something spectacular. A Super Bowl […]
The original Gladiator is Ridley Scott’s magnum opus and remains one of the best films since the turn of the century. The script, despite being written on the fly, had great lines. Everyone old enough to have watched the original remembers “Are you not entertained?” and “What we do in life echoes in eternity.” These […]
Let it not be said that Conclave, the new film about the selection of a new pope from director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) and screenwriter Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), is dishonest. I found it fascinating, unsentimental, and exceptionally keen in its understanding of human nature. Nevertheless, there is, at […]
President-elect Donald Trump has promised a mass deportation of illegal immigrants once he takes office, and while many people are over-selling what he will be able to achieve, the picture his open-borders opponents are painting of an illegal immigrant-free United States is just not as dire as they think. Estimates on the size of the […]
There is something inherently ridiculous about Kevin Killian’s posthumously published Selected Amazon Reviews. The book takes great pains to show it is very aware of this and to make sure the reader is just as aware. It is evident right there on its cover, puckishly aping the Library of America’s canonical majesty. It continues beneath […]
