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The abandoned eight
I’ve told you about U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Nick Mitchel, who earned his combat action ribbon on his first day in the war in Afghanistan. Months of…
July 9, 2025
The 12-day war: Israel and Trump have redrawn the map of the Middle East
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Family Friends: Review of Hal Ebbott’s ‘Among Friends’
“All happy families are alike,” Tolstoy wrote, “but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Over the years, the famous opening line to Anna Karenina…
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In search of the Indo-Europeans
This all started 5,000 years ago. That’s when, give or take a millennium or two, the journey began, which ended with me writing and you reading these…
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Last Soldier Standing: Review of ‘Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss’ by Jeff Kisseloff
As a grandchild of Whittaker Chambers who has studied the historiography of the famous events around my grandfather, I’m always eager for the next book on the…
Entertainment
F1 for effort
Near the beginning of F1, veteran racer Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) is forced to endure a brief meet-and-greet with Peter Banning, a cardboard-stereotype corporate villain played with…
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Bill Moyers, 1934-2025
Bill Moyers, the soft-spoken Texan who wove the moral threads of a nation into decades of incisive journalism, died this past week at age 91. With a…
Columnists
The angry Left resists as the Right rejoices: A tale of two Independence Days
“Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry, and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy people.” — George Washington. “[Independence Day] will be celebrated with pomp…
Columnists
What the 12-day war hath wrought
Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. The liberal folks around me at…
Columnists
Early Iran bomb damage spin falls apart
EARLY IRAN BOMB DAMAGE SPIN FALLS APART. You know the basics of the story. After U.S. bombers hit Iranian nuclear sites, President Donald Trump quickly announced that the…
In Focus
The progressive intifada invades New York
For me, a native New Yorker, watching the Democratic Party nominate a socialist jihadi apologist for mayor less than 25 years after 9/11 is infuriating. Not because…