C onservatism has been tagged as not a body of thought but a series of “irritable mental gestures.” No matter which is the more accurate description, as a holiday exercise I decided to put together ...

Eephus mourns America’s last baseball game.

A Chinese crypto kingpin, a libertarian cyber hero, and a Honduran drug lord all benefitted from Trump’s largesse this year.

T his year brought an abundance of good books, and I use the word “abundance” under advisement. After 2025, I can say with no fear of contradiction that I am fully up to speed on the topic. As a ...

New Year’s Wants, with a Nod to William Blake Marty Supreme’s American Hustler The former senator announced last week that he has advanced cancer and does not expect to survive. Just before Christmas, ...

‘I want, I want” is William Blake’s 1793 philosophical cartoon showing a child reaching the moon not via a spaceship but a ladder. T. S. Eliot said Blake’s engraving, the size of a playing card, ...

The Trump administration has cited the Somali fraud case as an example of why the U.S. needs to mass deport illegal immigrants.

One of the reasons Trump is apparently convinced that Putin wants peace is that Russian military forces have not yet bombed the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant . . . which Russian military forces ...

Mixed Vaccine Messages Threaten Trump’s Agenda and Republicans’ Electoral Outlook Bring Back Snow Days Who Is the Radical? 50 Years After the Edmund Fitzgerald, It’s Time to Fix American Shipbuilding ...

Muslim jihadists’ actions are consistent with centuries-old sharia law. I’m writing this amid the Festival of Lights and few days before our annual observance of the Nativity in the Judeo-Christian ...