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Saudi Arabia and the Canadian connection: the Al-Huwaider and Al-Oyouni case 26 Jun 2013 | 08:18 am
Wajeha Al-Howaider The Saudi human rights activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider and her colleague Fawzia Al-Oyouni, who have fought for such causes as the right of women in her country to drive, have been sent...
Our Podhoretz Problem at 50 3 May 2013 | 09:33 am
Fifty years ago, Norman Podhoretz wrote a profoundly stupid article called “My Negro Problem – and Ours.” The article was published in Commentary magazine, which is marking the anniversary. I say “pro...
The Ezra Klein Generation 24 Feb 2013 | 11:02 am
Ezra Klein. Brian Morton, a fine novelist and engaging public intellectual, recently tweeted: “Leftists should stop sneering at @ezraklein. If we’d had liberal policy wonks as solid as Klein in the 19...
Booker T. Washington: de Gaulle Disguised as Petain? 6 Feb 2013 | 11:31 am
In the two decades before his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was far and away the most admired black man in America. He was almost unique in having many admirers in both black and white America. ...
The Case for Trollope 5 Feb 2013 | 11:10 am
David Frum and I have had an interesting twitter debate about the merits of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope (you can read the dialogue here). I have a much higher regard for Trollope than Frum...
The D’Souza File 17 Oct 2012 | 12:29 am
D’Souza: In Konkani it means “Shonda for the goyim” The conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza is in the news lately for a number of reasons. His book Obama’s America , which purports to show the Kenyan a...
National Review and Ethnic Slurs: A Brief History 18 Jul 2012 | 02:35 am
National Review makes an appeal to Latinos. Matt Yglesias and others have raised their collective eyebrows at the fact that Jay Nordlinger of National Review Online was willing to very casually deplo...
Hilton Kramer: A Dissenting Obituary 31 Mar 2012 | 10:27 am
Hilton Kramer: cover photo for The Revenge of the Philistines Hilton Kramer, the art critic and founding editor of The New Criterion who died at age 84 earlier this week, rather enjoyed his own reput...
Dmitri Nabokov, RIP 28 Feb 2012 | 04:49 am
Via a facebook friend and the New York Times comes news that Dmitri Nabokov died last week at age 77. He lived, of course, under the shadow of his remarkable father Vladimir — and also in some ways eq...
Van Gogh and Weimar Democracy 7 Feb 2012 | 07:15 am
Over at the National Post, I have a review of Modris Eksteins’ Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age, which makes a provocative but not wholly convincing case linki...
