The question going into Joe Biden’s address to the national from the Oval Office tonight was: will he, having announced…

The events of the last few days have made incontrovertible something that candid observers have known for some time now:…

It’s odd how things that have been widely predicted and even widely anticipated can nevertheless occur with an emotional thunderclap. I…

Dr. Johnson once remarked that the prospect of hanging in a fortnight concentrates the mind. So, apparently, does being shot. At…

There are some cramped, unimaginative people who — I have been told — maintain that writing about wine is a…

If you squint, I reckon you could see two bloody corpses that the Secret Service turned over on that roof…

Last week at a fundraiser, Joe Biden said that it was time to get beyond his poor performance at his…

In 1927, Sigmund Freud published a book about religion called Die Zukunft einer Illusion (The Future of an Illusion). As a contribution to…

Yesterday, reviewing last week’s Supreme Court decisions, I noted that the court would probably issue its final opinion of the season, on…

All is unfolding as I have foreseen. Yesterday, reviewing last week’s Supreme Court decisions and indulging in a little well-earned Schadenfreude…

Some of my long-time readers will know that for many years past I have spent a few days most summers…

“What happens now?” The question flooded my inbox and what used to be called the Twittersphere. Why? Because shortly after…

Things are always worse than they seem. That adage may seem amusingly cynical, but that is only because it is…

My favorite line in Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard comes midway through the first chapter. The times are unsettled. The Risorgimento is…

Future historians, psephologists, and political analysts, searching for the day and time that Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign imploded beyond recovery,…

It saddens me to admit it, but the evidence is too overwhelming to dismiss: Democrats are significantly more cunning than…

When someone says “Bordeaux wine” most of us think first of wines from the Médoc, home of Pauillac, Saint-Julien, Saint-Estèphe,…

Have you noticed that whenever the conversation turns to the subject of Charles Darwin, an extraordinary amount of dogmatism is…

Like many commentators who have struggled to understand the reasons for the inveterate hatred of Donald Trump among the swank…

The two big stories du jour are 1) the continuing campus assault on sanity, brought to you by the pro-terrorist…

Undoubtedly the best moment in the testimony of Minouche Shafik, the President Columbia University, before the House Committee on Education…

We live now in an age of reverse gaslighting. Ordinary gaslighting — the term was popularized by the 1944 movie Gaslight —…

I want to talk about two things in this column: bills of attainder and kangaroo courts. The two often go…

Just as night watchmen are constrained by duty to make their rounds, so are writers about wine. Sometimes the rounds…

It being the Ides of March, I thought it might be worth reflecting briefly on the most famous event that…