The disgraceful, ducking, diving, dodging college presidents
It was a clarifying moment, wasn’t it? The presidents of MIT, Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania testifying for the House…
Vivek is right: America is devolving into tyranny
Many commentators (including yours truly) have pointed out that America is divided more now than it has been since the late…
Hamas and retaking higher education
Maybe there is something for which we have to thank Hamas after all. That savage terror group epitomizes the latest…
The changing season brings a change in politics
If you are paying attention, you know that nature is full of inklings and adumbrations. I am writing in New…
What hath Matt Gaetz wrought by tipping over the House apple cart?
What’s worse than chaos? How about a power vacuum? All the beautiful people are bewailing the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as speaker…
Why dry Sauternes are the next big thing
It is my sense that the popularity of sweet wines like Sauternes, Port, Tokaji and all the German Auslese wines…
Joe Biden has become a global embarrassment
What time is it? A bit like the emperor Domitian, Joe Biden seems confused about the time. Warned by an omen…
It’s always Chablis weather
It is very hot here in New England at the end of July. It was hot a week or two…
Has America lapsed into a gerontocracy?
Although I write at high summer, by the time you read this another school year will be upon us. I…
Trump’s interview blows the Republican debate away
One of the reasons that Donald Trump is so despised by the beautiful people of America – the people that…
David Bruce, a doctor in the vines
Every good vintner deserves a good origin story. David Bruce, the founder of the eponymous winery in the Santa Cruz…
Operation Get Trump
Humankind, said T.S. Eliot, cannot bear very much reality. A case in point was the chyron that Fox News posted…
Will Chuck Grassley’s Burisma bombshell finally get the Bidens fired?
A famous clip from recent history: “I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the…
The known unknowns of 2024
I think it was the once-renowned critic Clement Greenberg who gratefully acknowledged that his job as a cultural commentator allowed…
There’s malarkey aplenty in the Bidens’ shell game
“Because that’s where the money is.” That was the answer that Willie Sutton, an expert in his chosen field, gave when…
What to do when you only have modest wine on hand for a decorous guest
So, I’ve have been rooting around in Horace’s Epistles, which are full of amusing things. They really are not “epistles” in…
Is America a republic in name only?
Is the United States a one-party state? Surely not. Just look at the ballots the next time you vote. There…
A disastrous DeSantis 2024 ‘launch’ on Twitter Spaces
Free tickets to Disney World: maybe that’s what Ron the aspiring Don should give to the clever staffer who thought of…
John Durham exposes the whole anti-Trump caper
Well, well, well. That is to say, I told you so. Finally, at last, it was about time, scary-looking special counsel John…
Is it too late to save America?
Regular readers may recall how fond I am of a mot from the British diplomat, author and art collector Edgar Vincent, the…
Could the Blinken revelations lead to Biden’s impeachment?
What’s that flapping sound? Could it be the sound of chickens coming home to roost? Or maybe it’s just the grating…
The Democrats will come to rue this Trump indictment
So, everyone was even more right than they thought: Alvin Bragg’s breathlessly awaited arraignment of former president Donald Trump really…
A history lesson for Joe Biden
Some moderately clever people, reflecting on the confusing morass of current events, knowingly quote George Santayana’s most famous observation: that…
Even Biden knows Kamala is useless
As the song in “Li’l Abner” said, “The Country’s in the Very Best of Hands.” I wonder if Joe Biden…
How to wine and dine
If you dare to host a dinner party, said Brillat-Savarin, you must be prepared to be responsible for your guests’…
