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Listen, I'm not saying I plan on murdering anyone. But if it happened, and if I were caught by the authorities (which is unlikely, just for the record), and if [...]

You decide to treat yourself. You stop at the local ice-cream shop and order two scoops of the absurdly expensive salted caramel on a waffle cone. It's freezing outside, so [...]

By any genuine measurement, America is the most tolerant place on earth. This is an easy fact to forget for those who experience it. And these days, it's also an [...]

There is a type of person who spends decades making one terrifying prediction after another. Great calamities await us. Economic depressions. Acts of terror. Devastating pandemics. When tragedy A finally [...]

This summer, the Screen Actors Guild joined the Writers Guild of America on strike, leading to the largest interruption of television and film production (not counting Covid lockdowns) since walkouts [...]

In the midst of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Senator Chuck Grassley asked the nominee about her views on having cameras in the Supreme Court. 'I would certainly [...]

A few years back, I was gifted a T-shirt with the insignia of the video-game series The Legend of Zelda. And nearly every time I wore the thing, someone--usually a [...]

The Athenian mob executed poor old Socrates for being an irritating contrarian. Glaucon, Adeimantus, Timaeus, Phaedrus, et al. were sick of having to answer endless questions about universal truth every [...]

We recently learned that Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, and many other classic children's books, had had his work bowdlerized [...]

Not in a million years, not if all the nation's prestigious public-relations firms were mobilized for the cause, could gun manufacturers have conceived of a more effective advertising campaign for [...]

Whenever I express hostility towards the tattoo culture that's engulfed America, I am mocked as an uptight Boomer who couldn't possibly understand the transgressive thrill of having my skin injected [...]

A Few months ago, at the behest of my wife, I went to my first physical in memory. It was a relatively painless experience. A couple days later, my doctor [...]

As I leave 50 behind and adjust to empty-nesthood, I've decided to take up a much-delayed self-improvement routine. This holistic effort includes tending to the physical, mental, and social aspects [...]

Some years ago, while delivering a speech at a small liberal-arts college in Virginia, I noticed a student in my peripheral vision mimicking my hand motions. I can't recall the [...]

IN her first appearance as White House press secretary, a prim Jen Psaki pledged to tell the American people the truth 'even when it's hard to hear.' Her job, she [...]

Terrifying ideas have been creeping into my consciousness lately. I've begun asking myself things like 'Should I start an herb garden? Why pay retail for basil when I can grow [...]

The Democrats' campaign to destroy the legislative filibuster is predicated on three questionable claims. The first is that allowing a 60-vote threshold in the Senate to cut off debate is [...]

On March 25, 2020, New York governor Andrew Cuomo made the single deadliest mistake of the coronavirus pandemic: forcing nursing homes to accept elderly patients who had already tested positive [...]

As I write this piece, there are 95,214 unopened emails sitting in my inbox. It is chaos. A time-sucking, distracting mess, entailing nearly 15 years of digital life--since the last [...]

Though a somewhat unenthusiastic atheist, I am also a big fan of the holiday season. Not the mass consumerism, or the festivities, or the lights, or the presents, but theology. [...]

I'm a journalist. I have only a tenuous grasp of the day-to-day workings of money. It's no mystery why writers are reliant on 'publishers' to keep their businesses afloat or [...]

'I did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon told me that you were great on The Donahue Show. As you can imagine, she is an expert on politics, and [...]

One of the most irritating things about being a professional pundit is having random strangers hold you accountable for every column, tweet, and post you've ever written. Needless to say, [...]

You have amazing kids. They've spent years diligently doing their schoolwork. And you've done your part as well. You played classical music for them while they were still in the [...]

In 1962, Joe Biden, the future president of the United States, butted heads with an infamous local gang leader named 'Corn Pop' at a public swimming pool in an African-American [...]

My neighbors, let's call them Barb and Bob, are a delightful middle-aged couple with two older kids. I've lived next door to them for nearly a decade. Not long ago, [...]

Americans live in a truly interconnected world. And, honestly, getting to know everyone has been quite unpleasant. 'With democracy, all the dirt comes out,' the poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger once [...]

ON MAY 15, 2008, a goose graced the right side of the Chicago Sun-Times' front page, poking its beak into the paper's masthead, over the headline 'Back on the Menu.' […]

ON A MAY NICHT IN 2005, Debra Bolton, a lawyer and single morn from the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, was leaving the Cafe Milano in Georgetown after socializing with [...]

Here's a patriotic yarn: In my suburban Maryland neighborhood, there resides a dizzying array of ethnic, religious, and national identities. These Americans not only coexist peacefully, they send their kids [...]

I finally decided to read Moby-Dick. My wife, a far more patient and cultured soul than I, was listening to an audiobook of the famous novel when I overheard the [...]

It is in no way to disparage the child-rearing efforts of my beloved parents to note that the greatest gift they ever got me was obtained two years before I [...]

IN recent years I've written a number of contrarian columns arguing that modern life has, by nearly every quantifiable measure, improved for the vast majority of humanity over the past [...]

When I was a young boy in the 1970s, my hometown of Queens, New York, was a garbage dump. At least, this is how I remember the place. Polluted. Soiled. [...]

In the article, the author examines the social conditions in European Union (EU) countries as compared to the U.S. He claims that Europe cannot compete with the U.S. in terms of achieving peaceful cooperation of people of diverse backgrounds, faiths and creeds. Also cited are the prevalence of anti-Semitism and minority discrimination in Europe, and the surveys of racial tolerance in various countries.

'You're watching The Godfather? Again?' 'Yes, again,' I respond to my wife. 'Also, don't ask me about my business.' My beleaguered spouse rolls her eyes at this familiar retort, but [...]

As a dad of soon-to-be-college-age teens, I recently took a tour of the historic University of Virginia grounds. As my group strolled toward the Rotunda--an elegant building that our guide [...]

'I am not fit for this office and should never have been here,' Warren Gamaliel Harding, America's greatest president, once admitted. Now, no person, however highly he may regard his [...]

There's an insidious movement afoot to lower the voting age to 16. By promising suffrage to the most easily manipulated and emotionally unstable voters in America, Democrats in state legislatures [...]

You too may have noticed an uptick in the number of ads celebrating 'girl power' during this year's Super Bowl. To judge from my television, the idea entails women's engaging [...]

Many of you looked the other way when Donald Trump accused illegal Mexican immigrants of being rapists and murderers, because you've had it up to here with those do-nothings in [...]

NOT long ago, four members of the Columbia University Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board wrote a letter of complaint to the university alleging that the study of classic works of Western [...]

IT was James Breslow Adams who popularized the phrase 'American dream' in his 1931 book Epic of America, defining it as 'a dream of a land in which life should [...]

MEN of my generation-huddled within the arbitrary boundaries of Generation X-are like men of any other. We tend to romanticize the cultural offerings of our youth. And after taking stock [...]

A few years back, I was stricken with the stomach flu and sequestered from my family, friends, and colleagues. It was hunkered down in this solitary misery that I had [...]

A few years back, I began jotting down some of the more curious apologies I ran across in news reports. Though my list was by no means exhaustive, it offered [...]

LATELY, I've been thinking about deleting my Twitter account. It's not that the social-media platform is a cesspool of depravity, bad faith, unhinged antagonism, lockstepping partisanship, self-perpetuating irrationality, rumor-mongering, intellectual [...]

For a number of years I worked as a metro columnist at a bustling city newspaper. For a time, my cubicle was located next to the investigation desk of the [...]

A-LISTERS Ben Affleck and Matt Damon recently announced that they would be pooling their talents to produce a new television drama for the Sci-Fi Network titled 'Incorporated.' The series, a [...]