A Neil Young concert in the waning days of summer
A brilliant meteor blazed through the Summer Triangle early in the show, eliciting oohs and aahs and apolitical cheers
Life
Tuesday
The tyranny of the mass-intellectual
Progressive education along narrow lines is, for liberals, the source of all legitimate moral authority
Tuesday
The devil over Washington
I turned to film to re-enchant myself with the city in which I live
The Emmys are a waste of time
The good news about these execrable awards shows is that they tend to expose who these people are in real life
Polite society is a thing of the past
Table talk in London these days is so relentlessly gloomy that we need some irreverent juvenile banter to lighten things up
Tuesday
The pace is quickening in DC
This is Washington’s particular joke, sharpened in the second Trump era: violence is never just local
Thoughts on moving houses
Technically we are moving south, though I doubt we qualify as snowbirds
How the Democratic party became the party of the aggrieved
The Democrats are stone deaf, their hearing destroyed by their own high-decibel shouts and screams against the Great Sauron in the White House
Tuesday
It’s a frustrating time to be a college football fan
Despite the multitudinous sins committed against the game and its culture, I’m once again giving it the old college try
The problem of the progressive middle class
They believe in everything and anything – and thus in nothing at all
Tuesday
Who’s buying up Palm Beach?
Donald Trump continues to make news in his hometown
California is doomed
It’s almost beyond belief that the state used to be a glorious paradise of tennis-playing, churchgoing, hard-working patriotic Republicans
The Erie Canal at 200
The first spade hit the dirt on July 4, 1817, near the appositely named Rome, New York
The problem with Greta Thunberg
Virtue-signaling doesn’t work
Tuesday
Palm Beach is stuck in a gridlock
For a brief time, from Trump’s election until Easter, real estate enjoyed a brief boom – but no more
The origin of Father’s Day
The holiday began in Washington State as a church service orchestrated by Sonora Smart Dodd
Remembering Jackson C. Frank
The folksinger’s lifeboat capsized far too soon
Is everything political?
The world is, always was and always will be largely ungovernable and chaotic
Tuesday
The rise of millionaires, valet parking and facelifts in Palm Beach
New-found popularity brings high-end problems
How Major League Baseball lost its soul
Homestand is the most anti-MLB but pro-sandlot and hick-circuit baseball book ever published