As I write this, it is 2011 already in some parts of the world. To me, it feels like it should still be 1984. Be that as it may, Peggy Noonan wrote a splendid column about New Year’s and the song Auld Lang Syne. From “Days of Auld Lang What?”“Auld Lang . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Days of Auld Lang What? You know exactly when you’ll hear it, and you probably won’t hear it again for a year. The big clock will hit 11:59:50, the countdown will begin—10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4—and the sounds will rise: the party horns, fireworks and shouts of “Happy New . . . . Continue Reading »
The West is having an identity crisis. We are supposed to be societies based on principles, particularly, “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, in “On the Square,” we have two topical articles. In the first David Hart offers his thoughts on New Year’s Eve, which are somewhat different from R. R. Reno’s, which he wrote about in his column yesterday. “Now that I have a family of my own, we do observe the . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t often agree with Susan Jacoby, but I come pretty close to agreeing with this column , where she argues that we shouldn’t ask public schools to redress the lack of religious knowledge documented in this survey . My first thought as I was reading her piece was “of course, . . . . Continue Reading »
My initial attempt to mainstream some of our disputes over the Founders, the Progressives and all that is found here . . . . . Continue Reading »
At the beginning of 2010, I compiled a list that included 1,034 predictions for the coming year. I later went through and narrowed it down to the top 500 that I was absolutely certain would happen. Even after cutting the list down, though, I only managed to achieve a 67 percent accuracy rate. . . . . Continue Reading »
I think the New York Times report on this story gets the angle wrong. From the story:Two Mississippi sisters serving double life sentences for their roles in an $11 armed robbery will be released, but only on the condition that the younger sibling donate her kidney to her sister, whose organs . . . . Continue Reading »
While I’m willing to agree with Michael Barone that at least some of the heat in the culture wars has been turned down a bit (but see this post for a qualification), a lot of interesting things have been said recently about marriage, some of which I noted here . In the first place, I want to . . . . Continue Reading »
A man who grew up in a Communist family in Puerto Rico describes his movement out of the party and its anti-Americanism, as well as his observations on racial politics and the Left in America. While a memoir of the Gulag , and of European anti-semitism, has just appeared in English, 53 years . . . . Continue Reading »
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