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Donald Trump, the quid-pro-quo president

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.” […]

Separating the Art from the Poet: Review of ‘Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry’ by Adam Plunkett

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 […]

PG Wodehouse’s American dream

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, […]

Maybe, given how fast-moving all this is, it’s worth trying to get online early?

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? […]

We are bound to IVF by indifference

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 […]

Trump’s DOGE stays on track after pair of federal judge rulings

A pair of federal judges, in two separate cases, filed rulings that allow DOGE to continue its track of finding government waste and slashing it.

Trump appoints Alice Marie Johnson ‘pardon czar’ during Black History Month event at White House

President Donald Trump on Thursday appointed Alice Marie Johnson "pardon czar."

Cowardly Kathy Hochul caves to progressives on punishing Eric Adams (and his voters)

Gov. Kathy Hochul won’t completely cave to progressives’ absurd demand to boot Mayor Eric Adams from office, but instead will “merely” move to keep...

Mr. President: Putin is THE dictator and 9 other Ukraine-Russia war truths we ignore at our peril 

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’ macabre handover of hostage remains shows how hate rules all Gaza

Hamas made a sickening spectacle of Thursday's handover of the remains of two toddlers, their mother and another hostage — weaponizing even this into...

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