Rod Blagojevich, a corrupt former governor of Illinois, calls himself a “Trumpocrat.” The label is truly apt because nobody has better articulated the heart of Trumpism than Blago, who famously said, “I’ve got this thing, and it’s f***ing golden. And I’m just not giving it up for f***in’ nothing. I’m not going to do it.” […]
At the end of his life, Robert Frost was living in a cabin on the 150-acre Homer Noble Farm near the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, Vermont. The director of the conference, Theodore Morrison, lived in the main house on the farm with his wife, Kay, who would walk a short way uphill to […]
When the English writer and humorist P.G. “Plum” Wodehouse died 50 years ago this month, most would be forgiven for believing that his death took place at some grand English country house, not unlike Blandings Castle, or some salubrious Mayfair gentleman’s flat of a kind that Bertie Wooster inhabited. It therefore comes as a surprise, […]
Was President Donald Trump a Russian asset all along? Does Russian President Vladimir Putin, as anti-Trumpers allege, have some kind of kompromat on him? Does Trump simply prefer dictators to Democrats? Or has he borne a grudge against Volodymyr Zelensky since attempting to coerce the Ukrainian president into investigating then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in 2019? […]
When news broke last week of Elon Musk’s 13th child, from the fourth mother, congratulatory remarks included acclaim for the baby’s “incredible genetics.” Two days later, media mogul Andrew Tate reminded followers, “If all your children come from one woman, you are not a conqueror.” The comments probably do not coincide beyond timing, mainly because […]
This has been a dizzying and disorienting week in international diplomacy. One with wild implications for Ukraine, the future of America’s standing in the...
Hamas made a sickening spectacle of Thursday's handover of the remains of two toddlers, their mother and another hostage — weaponizing even this into...