Commentary

We Need To Get Fred Astaire Back

Does the world seem to you, as it does to me, to be more than just a little off-kilter these ...
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Positively Princeton: Professors, Pickers and Provocateurs

(Something from the deep archives; originally published on December 8th, 2009.) Yours truly was thrilled to be able to attend ...

Tony Made It Happen

This writer’s gratitude for the life of Tony Bennett is directly related to what was his single-minded mission, artistically speaking, ...

A Biblical Pet Peeve

It is one of the harshest responses Jesus is ever reported to have delivered to someone seeking his help; indeed, ...
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Frank Sinatra’s Come Swing with Me!: A Revelation in Mono

Who says there’s any such thing as settled science? And it’s where science and art meet that we find ourselves, ...

Ai, Yai, Yai: Artificial Intelligence Really Arrives

I personally made the above image of the crossed-out robot to symbolize “AI Free Zone,” in order to stick it ...

Shenandoah (Across the Wide Missouri)

“Shenandoah” is a powerful and mysterious song of America, which people everywhere find moving. I think of it as “of” ...

To Mark Steyn’s Health

We here offer our best wishes and a sincere prayer for good health to Mark Steyn, the one-of-a-kind writer and ...

The Supreme Court, My Father and Roe v. Wade

The leak of Samuel Alito’s draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey has made me think ...