Coming home from work tonight, I decided to “occupy” one of the elevators in my building. I got in, pushed all the buttons at once and then wouldn’t get out ...
Why do I have a sinking feeling that expecting the Libyan rebels to overthrow Qaddafi is like expecting the Coyote to catch the Road Runner . . . and that ...
The news that Neil Diamond has been elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame came as a shock. Not that I thought him undeserving. His influence on American ...
Toward the end of the question-and-answer period at a recent talk of mine at the local Barnes & Noble, an audience member stood up and asked, “Are readers of your ...
Philip Roth has written one famous novel about masturbation and more than a few masturbatory novels about fame. With The Humbling, his 30th book, he’s added to the latter column, ...
During yesterday’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Senator majority whip Dick Durbin provided an inadvertent illustration of the intellectual rigor of Democratic Judiciary Committee members.
Quoting a remark made by the late ...
Back in 2006, when liberal commentators were assuring us that Iraq was in the throes of an epic civil war, that American military forces were helplessly and hopelessly mired in ...
Forty-five years ago this week–February 9, 1964–the Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. I was six years old and don’t remember much about it, but my ...
If the election of Barack Obama — a 47-year-old black man with a political resume as ephemeral as a Mets pennant drive and a governing philosophy as dubious as Paris ...