The mornings are cooler. The sun sets earlier every day. Football is around the corner. And as wonderful as the NFL is, for many of us, nothing beats the pageantry, the tradition, and the excitement of college football. The sport is far from perfect, and it is going through a bit of a transition phase […]

Sometimes, all it takes to prosecute terrorist-sympathizing criminals is a district attorney who is not a terrorist sympathizer. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is charging 26 “pro-Palestinian” protesters for blocking traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge for more than four hours. Their actions led to families with children being stranded without water and a […]

I was blessed to survive my time in the war in Afghanistan uninjured and without serious PTSD challenges. Yet, I still face some problems that can manifest in unexpected ways. On a hot day, my wife suggested a movie in the cool, dark theater. “That Twisters movie looks good.” Faithful reader, this is not a […]

Here’s my synopsis for The Instigators, Apple TV+’s messy straight-to-streamer led by Matt Damon and Casey Affleck: After botching an election-night robbery, two dim-but-affable Boston bros (and one of their shrinks) outrun the police as they bicker like they’re in couples therapy. It’s a heist movie on a psychiatrist’s couch. It’s a parody of a […]

MOBILE, Alabama — The dread, unspoken but real, starts growing along the Gulf Coast at this time of year. The dread isn’t helped when the first sentence of a New Orleans Times-Picayune story says: “Temperatures off the coast of southeast Louisiana hit bathtub range last week.” High Gulf water temperatures — “the highest sea surface […]

To accuse former President Donald Trump of being petulant is like accusing a cow of being bovine or a butterfly of being flighty. His toddlerlike self-absorption, for reasons that continue to elude me, does not bother his working-class base. But even his supporters generally recognize that a certain boastful sulkiness is part of his brand. […]

Step 1: Sanitize sexual perversions with euphemistic, even playful, language. Step 2: Bring perfectly normal proclivities under the same linguistic banner, thus blurring any moral lines. I speak, of course, of the word “kink,” a term that has enjoyed explosive popularity in recent years as its usefulness to the Left has increased. During the not-memorably-prudish […]

What must David Mamet think of The Decameron, Netflix’s laughless comedy of medieval prurience and plague? In the 1990s, long before his turn as a conservative provocateur, the dramatist was famous in iconoclastic circles for his condemnation of modern acting, with its endless “funny voices.” Yet strained artificiality is the new production’s primary mode, not […]

Timothy W. Ryback, a Dutch historian and the director of the Hague-based Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation, has written numerous excellent books about the Holocaust, including his latest, Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power. Ryback’s 12-month snapshot of a pivotal period in Germany’s descent into totalitarianism carefully and persuasively captures the nuance of what […]

Vice President Kamala Harris is in the middle of a fight between major Democratic donors and progressive activists who want to rein in Big Tech companies whose business practices have become a political lightning rod. Big donors are pressuring Harris to replace Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan, who has led the Biden administration’s...