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featuredIt is curious how certain words accumulate a nimbus of positive associations while others, semantically just as innocuous, wind up shouldering a portfolio of bad feelings… Read More
Roger’s
Oeuvre
For art’s sake
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Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first black head of the Smithsonian Institution, is stepping down after a tenure of some seven years. NPR had the news: “In 2019, Bunch was named… Read More
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The National Museum of American History, like so many aspects of the Smithsonian, has strayed far from its original purpose. Read More
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Modern art stopped challenging convention long ago. Now it challenges only common sense—and rewards the people willing to applaud the loudest absurdities. Read More
INSTITUTED AMONG MEn
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They want to acknowledge the sudden rise in antisemitism but they can’t bear to acknowledge that Donald Trump was doing something about it. Read More
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on a roll. Docket his consistently robust responses to Hamas, Iran and NATO for future delectation. On July 13, he wrote a brilliant op-ed for the Wall… Read More
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David Axelrod, Barack Hussein Obama’s chief strategist, was clearly worried about Donald Trump’s prime time speech about election integrity last night. Hyperventilating on X Tuesday, he warned that “If @POTUS really trots… Read More
LOCUS CLASSICUS
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Theory, which once betokened an attunement or congruence with reality, now signifies a willful imposition. Read More
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Conservatism is strongest when it rejects despair, embraces reality with confidence, and defends the permanent things with good humor. Read More
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Western civilization survives only if each generation rejects egalitarian vandalism and relearns its duty to preserve, cultivate, and pass on greatness. Read More
The Zeitgeist
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I suppose you could say that the Trump decade began on June 16, 2015, when Donald and Melania Trump descended the golden escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy… Read More
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Harold Macmillan, prime minister of Great Britain from 1957 to 1963, was once asked by a journalist what was the most troubling problem he faced during his prime ministership. “Events,… Read More
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The effort to normalize various pathologies seems to be, as we have been taught to say, trending. Read More
Bacchic Right
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Most wine columns resemble recipes from Larousse Gastronomique or Mastering the Art of French Cooking in this way: they have happy endings. Read More
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In his History of the Franks, Gregory of Tours (c. 539-594) wrote one of my favorite opening sentences: “A great many things keep happening, some of them good, some of them bad.”… Read More
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Our evening’s wine consumption had hidden interconnections. Read More
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