The establishment and the mob
The readiness of establishment liberalism to tolerate the many occurrences of mob violence has been one of the most disturbing developments of the past three and a half years
Life
Wednesday
Basketball is more popular, and soccer-like, than ever
The NBA relies more and more on international players who grew up playing soccer
Friday
Summering in Scranton
We couldn’t leave the Electric City without a drive-by of the house in which native son Joe Biden spent his first decade
The liberal idea of sin
And how it prevents us from recognizing and confronting the preeminent danger facing the West today
Danny Bonaduce’s guide to survival
Whether it’s the perils of child stardom, booze, drugs or relationship issues, the sixty-four-year-old has been there and back again
Is Shohei Ohtani the GOAT?
It has been more than a century since baseball had such a double threat
Monday
Why I won’t grow up
Jordan Peterson would be appalled by a man like me — sixty-eight going on sixteen
Rage against the baseball machine
I have finally encountered an umpire I would despise, disparage, spit upon, kick, and, yes, kill
In search of the perfect martini
For my money the only ‘cocktail’ worthy of the name is the classic martini, together with the gimlet
Sunday
Literary festivals are no fun
Writers aren’t fun — they’re miserable egotists and that’s why we write
How the NCAA twisted women’s sports
It wasn’t supposed to be this way
The Age of Unreason
It it is becoming plain that civilization cannot go on forever. Does this imply that it should never have existed at all?
At home with Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg has, in recent years, become a caricature of a British conservative
Sunday
The joy of missing out
One should never complain about not being invited to something
Michael Cimino’s gift to cinema
Heaven’s Gate is a 200-minute-plus mess of beautiful incoherences and stupefying contradictions
The dangers of faux-education
Education on a mass scale is adjusted to and reflective of the limitations of the average citizen’s intellectual abilities and his competency
Pet portraitist Mimi Vang Olsen marches to the beat of her own drum
For this artist, life is an adventure, not a struggle
Thursday
Make love, not culture war
I have a new woman in my life and not just any woman. I have a Woke Woman
How Karl Hess went from Mr. ‘Ultra-Conservative’ to supporter of the New Left
Few in our history have ever switched teams with the dramatic flair of Karl Hess
The death of the Western literary tradition
No one reads Waugh, Stendhal or Faulkner anymore, not to mention Hemingway