Wistful for Olympics past
(July 25) As we watch the Olympic Games this year, some of us oldsters lament a sort of innocence and sense of wonder that has been lost in the past […]
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American cannon: James Monroe’s Fourth of July epic
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, July 4) On this Independence Day, consider how a very few people, in very dire straits, made the difference for the very existence of the nation […]
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Willie Mays’ glorious season in 1971
[The excellent Jay Nordlinger of National Review saw fit to publish a note I sent him about Willie Mays. It’s about halfway down this piece here: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/blowin-smoke/ My part reads […]
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Willie Mays represented the best in sports
(June 18-19, written the night of Mays’ death, published around midnight central time) Even in the final years of Willie Mays’s baseball career, the great man slowed by nagging injuries, […]
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‘Skinny’ revival of traditional jazz is big fat fun
(May 31) For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz have worried their favorite music is a dying art form. Oh, sure, something like trad jazz, loud and frenetic […]
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Unanimous Supreme Court supports first two amendments
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, June 2) Since the minute it was ratified, the First Amendment has been as clear as water on one thing: Government officials may not use their […]
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Lessons from Bunker Hill, for Memorial Day
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, May 27) This Memorial Day, let’s learn something from the first famous person who died in combat for the United States. Then, consider the non-famous ones […]
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Supreme Court again dodges case of parental rights
(May 21) Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was right earlier this month in complaining that his tribunal chooses to hear too few cases, and the court did it again this […]
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Religious liberty beats the pronoun police
(Official Washington Examiner editorial, May 25) Even the most crazy-left enclaves of California are starting to recoil from the most unreasonable demands of transgender ideology. For one thing, speech cannot […]
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Why even centrists should oppose hyper-immigration
(May 14) One need not be xenophobic to be concerned that the foreign-born population in the United States is at its highest level in history, as is the rate of increase in the past two […]
