As a homeschooling mother of six children, including four boys, our home library of children’s books is extensive. My older children are reading chapter books, and they are consuming them faster than I can research them and obtain them from the library and used booksellers. For my oldest daughter, it’s not particularly difficult to procure […]
“Pitch perfect.” “Fresh.” “Really good.” So say the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, and the Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican of Netflix’s new docuseries, The Comeback, a three-episode look at the Boston Red Sox’s historic 2004 playoff victory over the New York Yankees. Are New York critics as effusive? Hard to say. Word out of Gracie Mansion […]
One of the hallmarks of great literature is that it reminds readers that their feelings have already been felt, their despair suffered, and their hopes shared by people across time and place. In other words, they’re normal. One of the hallmarks of social media is that it teaches users that they’re not. “You don’t have […]
Throughout movie history, few genres have been more consistently disparaged, disrespected, and disdained than what might be called the cancer-crossed romance. To their cynical critics, movies such as Sweet November, Dying Young, and A Walk to Remember offer the unseemly spectacle of attractive characters navigating their romantic lives while contending with a terminal illness. Yuck. […]
For plenty of Reaganite conservatives of four- or five-decade-long standing, the thought of voting for former President Donald Trump always has been anathema. And still is. Even for those who absolutely can’t vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump remains a rocket blast too far. We’ll cast write-in votes instead. Because so many Trump fans […]
I told you last time about how I feared Army basic training after watching the portrayal of Marine recruit training in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket. When I learned my new friend, retired Marine Chief Warrant Officer 4 Dan Ritter, had served as a Marine drill instructor, or DI, I knew he’d have a […]
Randy Barnett’s absorbing new memoir begins, like any good story, in medias res: with his trailblazing oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, in the landmark Gonzales v. Raich case, on behalf of individual freedom — a fitting vignette for a book bearing the title A Life for Liberty. A constitutional law professor at Georgetown […]
The Republican majority staff of the House Committee on Small Business issued a report detailing accusations of widespread mismanagement of the COVID loan system.