DREW CAREY criticizes Spencer Pratt in L.A. mayoral race: "Anyone who votes for, or endorses Spencer Prattfall for Mayor of LA needs to get their head out of their a--."
President Donald Trump said he wants to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin soon to close in on a peace settlement for the war Russia started by invading Ukraine. However, Trump’s secondary interest is to establish a more effective relationship between the United States and Russia. Both ambitions are worth pursuing. A more effective U.S.-Russia relationship might lead to new and enforceable nuclear arms […]
Contrary to the attitudes of many of my colleagues in the academy, academic freedom and independence are not rights or entitlements. They result from a political bargain and one that has become more fraught in recent decades. Essentially, the bargain goes like this: Academics will independently cultivate, curate, expand, and disseminate knowledge from the sciences […]
The bar for actors aging gracefully in Hollywood is not particularly high. Many legends have tried and failed. Against his better judgment, Cary Grant consented to appear opposite the far-younger Audrey Hepburn in Charade, and against all standards of common decency, Burt Reynolds attempted to prolong his fading stardom by donning a toupee. By contrast, […]
One of my favorite things to do when I have an evening all to myself is to sit with a book at the bar at my favorite restaurant. It’s an old-fashioned, low-key kind of pleasure — the very best kind, in my experience — and when I was younger, it’s exactly what I imagined being […]
During former President Joe Biden’s chaotic, hopelessly inadequate evacuation effort in Kabul, I was bombarded day and night by messages from many Afghans who served with our military or with the elected Afghan government. Could I get them on one of those planes? Could I help to arrange asylum? Would I at least help evacuate […]
In 2021, Netflix’s miniseries Squid Game immediately established itself as one of the most upsetting television series ever made — and one of the best. The South Korean show’s new second season is a needless and unsatisfying, if sometimes interesting, coda to one of the most important television series of the streaming era. Three years after […]
On Jan. 21, the outgoing Biden administration and Trump administration secured the release of Americans Ryan Corbett and William Wallace McKenty from Taliban detention in exchange for Afghan Khan Mohammad, incarcerated on drug and terrorism charges in the United States. Little is known of McKenty, age 69, as his family has “requested privacy.” Previously, the […]
On Day One of his new administration, President Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders. While many dealt with immigration, one focused on clearing the confusion surrounding governmental definitions of female and male. To those on the Left, including the first transgender member of Congress, this executive order is both extreme and unnecessary. But given the abandonment […]
It’s no coincidence the first Israeli hostages were released on the eve of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House. As part of a three-stage accord, three Israeli women were freed on Sunday morning. This critical component of a tenuous ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas promises to resolve the Middle Eastern tragedy that […]
