Criminal probe of John Bolton is abuse of Justice
(Sept. 15) The Justice Department’s move to open a criminal investigation into the publication of former national security adviser John Bolton’s memoir sends a chilling signal to all people who […]
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What Hurricane Sally was like, in almost real time
(Sept. 16) MOBILE, Alabama — Winston Churchill wrote in the late 1800s that “nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result,” and that’s what most […]
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In England, historical ignoramuses attack Gladstone
(June 9) When the woke despoilers of history and reason try to cancel the legacy of one of the greatest liberalizers in Western civilization, they demonstrate a willful ignorance so […]
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Rodney King sends note to my readers (figuratively speaking)
Why can’t we all just get along? Those famous, admirable, and heartfelt words of a troubled and far from blameless Rodney King, the victim of a famous police beating in […]
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Arbery killing shows dangers of vigilantism
(May 11) It’s not just the racism, but the vigilantism too. In the now-infamous killing of black Georgian jogger Ahmaud Arbery, there is much to be said, much of it […]
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An afterword for Dorothy Lill, librarian
(April 17) While it’s not unusual to pay tribute to the tremendous role coaches can have in our lives, it may not be common to pay tribute to a librarian. […]
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Patients need more advice on treating the virus
(March 16) To this layman, it seems that authorities are doing far better at telling us how to avoid the spread of the coronavirus than they are at telling us how […]
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Send these Notre Dame students to bed without supper
(Dec. 1) A group of Notre Dame students has become the latest pack of scolds promoting senseless racialism in the name of ending racism. The proper response is to tell them to grow up […]
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Terrible media ethics: anti-Pence; pro-McCabe
Anti-Pence column jumped the nastiness shark (Sept. 9). Sometimes a column features such unmitigated, unmerited nastiness that it requires an answer for the record. Such is the case with the latest outpouring […]
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Cheaper by the dozen: 12 pensive pieces, no platitudes
Old-School college football, minus the pomp, at old Tulane (Sept. 2). When Tulane, ignoring law, let Jim Harbaugh get away (Sept. 3). For one week, these Saints were in crazy […]
