As far as I’m concerned, the 1948 David Lean black-and-white version of “Oliver Twist” is the masterpiece of the many movie versions of the story. I first saw the film as a child and it scared me horribly at times, … Continue reading →
Famous author Joyce Carol Oates is known for the number and length of her fiction output. But she’s also a Twitter-user, and yesterday she retweeted this pithy thought: “I could shoot 24 million people on Fifth Avenue & I would’t … Continue reading →
Here’s how the situation began: [Officer] Bardes and a Florida Highway Patrol trooper were at the scene of a car crash when Strother’s Toyota Camry swerved and drove along the left shoulder at what seemed to be at least 100 … Continue reading →
Riots in Berkeley, California resulted in the university’s decision to cancel a scheduled speech by Milo Yiannopoulos, and the incident has been characterized as a blow against freedom of speech and/or First Amendment rights. In a very technical sense it … Continue reading →
We don’t know much yet about the perpetrators in a horrific and deadly attack on a Quebec mosque that left six dead and many wounded. Reports are that there were two and perhaps three shooters, but we know that such … Continue reading →
I haven’t yet read Heather Mac Donald’s City Journal article on the Chicago torture case and how it relates to the larger culture, but a lot of people have recommended it. I’ve only had time to very briefly skim it, … Continue reading →
And it’s not even subtle about it. An error of this magnitude and type is no “error’ at all: A CBS Radio News report on the horrific black-on-white torture case in Chicago falsely implied that the victim was black and … Continue reading →
This time, a terrible act of violence at an airport resulting in five deaths seems to have been perpetrated by a person who was mentally ill, perhaps schizophrenic: [The shooter Esteban Santiago] visited the FBI’s Anchorage, Alaska, office a few … Continue reading →
UPDATE 5:50: The four perpetrators—two 18-year-old men and one 18-year old and one 24-year-old female (the women appear from their names to be sisters or otherwise related)—have now been charged, and “hate crime” is among the charges: Authorities have charged … Continue reading →
Europe has a dream—the dream of Schengen. Schengen represents a borderless unity, with European states united to the economic and social benefit of all of them, in peace and harmony: What makes the allegiance to Schengen so strong among Europeans? … Continue reading →
UPDATE 4:39 PM In what comes as no surprise to any human being on earth (with the possible exceptions of President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, and Obama would be pretending), the attacker has been identified as a recent … Continue reading →
I had not remembered this story from 1994, although it’s extraordinarily memorable. I came across it on YouTube the other day and was surprised that it’s not better known. Watch. It’s unbelievable, and yet it happened: “Fight For Your Life,” … Continue reading →