Fifty years ago, Camille rocked our worlds
For the rest of the country, the eventful summer of 1969 was not a Bryan Adams song, but it was the summer of Woodstock, the moon landing, Chappaquiddick and the […]
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Miscellany: Conservative ideas better than liberal ones
For these four pieces, the full article is linked within the headline of each. New group wisely tries to dissuade the young from socialism (Aug. 16): It is all too […]
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Key perspectives on white supremacy
If anyone doubts that white supremacy/neo-Nazism is a threat,just read this piece from Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, and the first piece of mine, below, from the Examiner. It is absurd […]
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Three to see, esp. on racism
(Three unrelated pieces. To read the full articles, follow the links embedded in the headlines.) Beyond ‘racism,’ let’s get language right: Sweet Briar College dean Fontaine Maury Belford taught her […]
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I’ll never buy Nike again
(July 8). I will never buy another Nike product again. I know I’m far from the only one to make this pledge. Nike’s withdrawal of its shoes featuring a representation of the […]
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Cuckoo for Coco Gauff! Cuckoo for Coco Gauff!!
July 5. In 15-year-old American Coco Gauff, we may be seeing the debut of the next truly great women’s tennis player. That may be a radically premature assessment as she […]
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‘Mad Jones’ book event, July 23, New Orleans!
To all in New Orleans or vicinity, I am very excited to announced that Octavia Books is hosting me at 6 p.m. on July 23 for a reading/signing event for […]
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Fifty years later, watch ‘Apollo 11,’ and marvel
By Quin Hillyer at the Washington Examiner, June 17, 2019. Some time in this next month, dear reader, please, please, please find and watch the documentary film “Apollo 11.” It’s a merely […]
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What Bush couldn’t teach, ‘tank man’ did
(June 3): When the Chinese government slaughtered unknown numbers of its own citizens in Tiananmen Square 30 years ago on June 4 (Chinese time), Americans waited in vain for their […]
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Dr. John, Leah Chase, Rafa Nadal, and other culture
Three columns about memorable people, and their art. (Follow the links in the headlines.) A slave ship and a restauratrice: black history done right (June 4): Two recent news items […]
