Roger Simon has a wish: I wish Tom Lehrer were around to write new lyrics to his amusing song about our most distinguished university [Harvard], whose Islamic Studies department is now the recipient of a multimillion dollar donation from Saudi … Continue reading →
You might want to go over and wish Kesher Talk a happy fourth birthday. Four years! I’m impressed. In blog-years (the opposite of dog-years), that’s practically ancient. And to think they still have the energy to blog after all that … Continue reading →
Well, perhaps not quite. But, in honor of my recent renaming by Gerard van der Leun of American Digest, I thought I’d try my best to live up to my elegant new alias, moniker, appellation: Neo. What’s with the black … Continue reading →
They seem like strange bedfellows: Bianca Jagger and Ramsey Clark. But I think something the former said can shed a bit of light on the dark and murky thought processes of the latter. Writing in Friday’s NY Post, Amir Taheri … Continue reading →
Reading the news of Richard Pryor’s death yesterday, I have to say that it surprised me—not that he died, but that he’d still been alive. He had been so sadly debilitated in recent years that it seemed remarkable that he’d … Continue reading →
No, it wasn’t technically the first snow. We’d had a few flurries earlier this fall. Once, a tiny bit had even remained on the ground for a few hours, before melting. But yesterday was the first true snowstorm, signalling the … Continue reading →
Omri Ceren is none too pleased with the LA Times. After reading his post, I doubt you will be, either. I haven’t read the full backup materials to which Ceren links (it’s a book-length Strategic Studies Institute document), just a … Continue reading →
[Part I: Reading Lolita in Tehran] [Part II: Hemingway and Dos Passos and the Spanish Civil War] We all know H.G. Wells. That is, we all think we know him. He’s the author of science fiction novels that seem to … Continue reading →
Wretchard of Belmont Club has written another of his signature, deeply thoughtful, posts. All I can say is “read the whole thing.” Well, no, actually; that’s not all I can say. Wretchard is writing about whether we can afford the … Continue reading →
I forgot to mention the following in yesterday’s post about Clive Wearing: for those of you in the states who get cable TV, the video is scheduled to be aired again on TLC on Dec. 19 at 10:00 PM, and … Continue reading →
A few years ago I saw the last few minutes of a TV documentary. Those moments made a deep impression on me, although I saw so little of it I didn’t really even know who or what it was about, … Continue reading →
I’ve received a number of queries from readers as to just when the next “A mind is a difficult thing to change” post is coming up. They’ve all been very polite and careful not to pressure me. Ah, but I … Continue reading →