Like any good communist, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is an unrepentant hypocrite who wants to make things better for the masses as long as they remember they are pathetic peasants who are not as important as he is. Sanders has spent the last few months jetting around the country on his “Fighting Oligarchy Tour.” With […]
ANNVILLE, Pennsylvania — When Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins made her first visit as a Cabinet official to Pennsylvania last month, the jury was still out on the effect of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on American agriculture. Rollins cautioned people not to overreact as she visited Talview Dairy for a tour. This happened days before Trump […]
“Things must change in order to stay the same,” the young aristocrat Tancredi tells his nostalgic uncle Don Fabrizio in The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s 1958 novel of an old family weathering the power struggles of the new Italy in the late 19th century. Lushly adapted by Luchino Visconti in 1963 with Burt Lancaster as Don […]
It’s remarkable to watch Jon Hamm, a decade after the finale of Mad Men aired on May 17, 2015, navigate the treacherous waters of Post-Iconic-Role Syndrome that other actors have drowned in. While the ghosts of Harry Potter and James Bond haunt Daniel Radcliffe’s and Daniel Craig’s subsequent work, Hamm has somehow managed to acknowledge […]
An almost forbidden opinion is now finding a voice in the halls of power and influence. When the view is uttered above a whisper, it is derided by feminists, disdained among economists, and ignored by most of the media. But it’s what tens of millions of women believe: Stay-at-home mothers are a good thing. To […]
There’s a sad old theme in warfare: boys and young men rush to war expecting adventure, glory, and honor, and prematurely aged and deeply scarred men return and make a futile effort to warn those boys and young men that war is simply hell. Marine Lance Cpl. Nick Mitchel became a part of this cycle […]
One of my writer friends tells a harrowing story about being at an important lunch meeting and suddenly realizing that he’s choking to death. It was one of those meals where everyone else at the table was rich, successful, and intimidating. He was invited along as the guest of one of the participants, and the […]
The government of Qatar surprised President Trump with the release of the last American-born hostage, Edan Alexander, 21, from Hamas captivity, while making his...
Few 20th-century American novels are more widely celebrated than Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God. The work, which traces a Southern black woman’s odyssey through poverty and difficult marriages toward self-understanding, has been praised by countless scholars and writers, was adapted into a television film starring Halle Berry and produced by […]
Even during the lockdown, my village pub was the heart of the community. Banned by law from opening its doors, it sold fish and chips through a hatch. When the rules on meeting outdoors were relaxed a little, it organized markets in its beer garden where villagers could buy homemade cakes and jams and, above […]
When candidates for political office need a reboot, most campaigns turn to the consultant class. But during the 2024 presidential contest, former President Joe Biden ought to have excavated the archives of the Onion. Last year, Biden’s image as a slumberous, easily dumbfounded senior citizen could only have been helped by the Onion‘s legendary fictitious […]
One day in 1959, Pvt. Joseph Caan, a 19-year-old soldier in the British army, visits a German town hall on a fact-finding mission. The official who receives him, Hans Büchner, notes the young man’s nerves and tries to put him at ease with his near-flawless command of English. Pvt. Caan would like to know what […]
