In my review of Kingsley Amis’s Everyday Drinking for the Washington Times, I reference ‘The Careful Man’s Peachy Punch.’ For those intrepid enough to read me both at the Times...
So there I was, reading the Wall Street Journal, and what do I see? Thomas Frank attacking AF, the organization that so kindly pays me to write this humble weblog,...
…but only because the media says that it’s over. Here’s the thing about Obama’s much-vaunted majority of the pledged delegates: it means bupkus. There is a certain symbolism, I suppose,...
This paragraph in Richard Cohen’s column today on why Hillary hasn’t dropped out puzzled me a little bit: In the end, no one begrudges a bitter-ender. Robert E. Lee is...
In the early days of The Weekly Standard online, Jonathan V. Last wrote a very controversial piece entitled The Case for Empire. In it, he argued that viewers were cheering...
James picks his favorite (and least favorite) Japanese film over at The American Scene. I think his choice of Battle Royale is a great one, though you can’t go wrong...
