Interesting. Of course, America – and the world – has changed a lot since then: Richard Nixon fought the chaos of the New Left and won a 49-state landslide. He dismantled the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground. And he … Continue reading →
I’ve said many times that I don’t much care for political oratory. In my lifetime, I don’t recall any political speech that interested me at the time, although in retrospect I would rate some of Reagan’s as quite good. But … Continue reading →
Dershowitz writes: There is a nefarious group that calls itself The 65 Project that has as its goal to intimidate lawyers into not representing Trump or anyone associated with him. They have threatened to file bar charges against any such … Continue reading →
But it doesn’t matter that he’s got little left in the tank. They’ll push him across the finish line, if necessary. I don’t usually watch Biden speak, because his mendacity and hypocrisy sickens me. But I forced myself to watch … Continue reading →
Angela Davis recently made an appearance on Louis Gates’ “Finding Your Roots” program. She got a bit of a surprise: Angela Davis bought the guns used in a courthouse raid that murdered a judge, and she later served as Gus … Continue reading →
I grew up in an era in which we had to memorize scads of poetry, some of it of the patriotic verse variety. I’ve written about the experience here. An excerpt: I think it may be a lost pedagogical device, … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a somewhat-edited version of a previous post.] The stock of Christopher Columbus has fallen in recent years as a result of the general campaign on the part of the left by figures such as Howard Zinn to … Continue reading →
Some years ago I read Martin Amis’ book entitled Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, which deals with Stalin. At one point (I noted at the time that it was on pages 82-86, although I no longer have … Continue reading →
RIP: After taking power in 1985, Gorbachev’s introduction of limited economic and political freedoms – including his “glasnost” policy of free speech – ultimately led to the USSR’s demise. He refrained from using force to crush pro-democracy protests in the … Continue reading →
…had actually already happened when I was there, around 2008. The docents were already droning on and on about slaves and Sally Hemmings, almost as though those were the main points of Jefferson’s life. This NY Post article describes what’s … Continue reading →
Yesterday I happened to be in the neighborhood of the Reagan Library, and so I visited it. I’m not a fan of presidential libraries, although I’ve been to three now. I find them a bit boring, sorry to say. The … Continue reading →
Recently I’ve made some comparisons to Munich and Neville Chamberlain’s surrender of the Sudetenland to Hitler. But I didn’t go into any real depth while referencing him. But then I realized that his name has become synonymous for “surrender” and … Continue reading →