Facing down the Democratic legal tsunami
Sydney Smith (1771-1845), the great English wit and Anglican divine, once said that he never read a book before reviewing…
Portuguese wines are back
Regular readers will recall my fondness for Lord Falkland’s observation that “when it is not necessary to change, it is…
ABC News is the big loser of the Trump-Harris debate
The main takeaway from the ABC News ambus— er, presidential debate last night? That someone should sue the network for…
There is a little bit of Frank Sinatra in Donald Trump
Unless you are drinking from the cistern that Bill Kristol and his herd top off daily, you will have been…
The ‘real’ Kamala
I write at the end of July, just on the threshold of the “silly season,” “the months of August and…
Don’t be fooled by Tim Walz’s blandness
OK, it’s August 6, the anniversary of the detonation of Little Boy over the city of Hiroshima in 1945. That marked…
We should be grateful that Biden is going nowhere… for now
The question going into Joe Biden’s address to the national from the Oval Office tonight was: will he, having announced…
The Democrats do not care a whit about democracy
The events of the last few days have made incontrovertible something that candid observers have known for some time now:…
Biden ushers in more uncertainty by stepping aside
It’s odd how things that have been widely predicted and even widely anticipated can nevertheless occur with an emotional thunderclap. I…
A more reflective Trump will win in November
Dr. Johnson once remarked that the prospect of hanging in a fortnight concentrates the mind. So, apparently, does being shot. At…
Outdoor wines for the summer
There are some cramped, unimaginative people who — I have been told — maintain that writing about wine is a…
Hit the road, Jack
If you squint, I reckon you could see two bloody corpses that the Secret Service turned over on that roof…
Who’s the real threat to democracy?
Last week at a fundraiser, Joe Biden said that it was time to get beyond his poor performance at his…
The United States cannot afford a 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. president
In 1927, Sigmund Freud published a book about religion called Die Zukunft einer Illusion (The Future of an Illusion). As a contribution to…
What the Supreme Court immunity ruling means for Donald Trump
Yesterday, reviewing last week’s Supreme Court decisions, I noted that the court would probably issue its final opinion of the season, on…
A robust SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity
All is unfolding as I have foreseen. Yesterday, reviewing last week’s Supreme Court decisions and indulging in a little well-earned Schadenfreude…
On Summer Solstice and the passage of time
Some of my long-time readers will know that for many years past I have spent a few days most summers…
‘Justice’ and the fall of a republic
“What happens now?” The question flooded my inbox and what used to be called the Twittersphere. Why? Because shortly after…
The Joe Biden Shuffle defines the G7
Things are always worse than they seem. That adage may seem amusingly cynical, but that is only because it is…
If the West is to stay the same, a lot will have to change
My favorite line in Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard comes midway through the first chapter. The times are unsettled. The Risorgimento is…
Trump’s bumper Bronx rally is a bad omen for Biden
Future historians, psephologists, and political analysts, searching for the day and time that Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign imploded beyond recovery,…
The cunning of the Democrats’ lawfare
It saddens me to admit it, but the evidence is too overwhelming to dismiss: Democrats are significantly more cunning than…
The thoroughly underrated Pessac-Léognan
When someone says “Bordeaux wine” most of us think first of wines from the Médoc, home of Pauillac, Saint-Julien, Saint-Estèphe,…
What Charles Darwin got wrong
Have you noticed that whenever the conversation turns to the subject of Charles Darwin, an extraordinary amount of dogmatism is…
Why the Establishment hates Donald Trump
Like many commentators who have struggled to understand the reasons for the inveterate hatred of Donald Trump among the swank…
