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Stop calling “snowflakes” snowflakes. Stop misrepresenting the greatness of the latter with the god-awfulness of the former, whose ranks include students and citizens too precious […]
Stop calling “snowflakes” snowflakes. Stop misrepresenting the greatness of the latter with the god-awfulness of the former, whose ranks include students and citizens too precious […]
Whenever I drive past UCLA, with its Romanesque buildings and banners of blue and gold; whenever I see the steps and street lamps that line […]
The Final Year, a new documentary about President Obama’s foreign policy team during their last year in office, has a scene that is an apt […]
Guillermo del Toro, the Academy Award-nominated director of The Shape of Water, should get an Oscar for the entertainment value alone. Even better, let him […]
On this day, which is no ordinary holiday for no ordinary man, let us speak a truth: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a great […]
There is no road ahead for America without the roadways of America: the literal highways that form our Interstate Highway System. Those highways are the […]
Let us begin at the end of the beginning: “Dunkirk” is the best film of 2017. It is an epic war movie, where names are […]
Somewhere between the Hyde Park section of Chicago (in a subterranean vault fit to withstand a nuclear blast) and a moving truck stranded on Highway […]
The poetry of politics is the most visible and entertaining part of the American presidency. It is a multi-city tour at home and abroad, where […]
The scene: The light of a cathedral radio as regal as it is reverential, with its faceplate set aglow, while kith and kin listen to […]
To those seeking the names of the architects responsible for our cultural decline, a few words of advice: Do not round up the usual suspects. […]
On this 54th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, history once again confirms the truth of the uncertainty principle. That is, the study of […]
When it comes to heist movies, Hollywood has an inverse form of “Occam’s Razor.” The more complex and outlandish the security—from multiple checkpoints and a […]
February will mark the 34th anniversary of the wide release of the last great all-American film: “The Right Stuff.” Neither a love letter to liberals […]
If you want to understand America, you need to understand Americans’ attitudes toward politics and baseball. More to the point, you need to understand how […]