Apparently Pat Buchanan’s new book continues his rants about the supposedly nefarious influence of Jews—er, excuse me, I mean neocons on the Grand Old Party: I’m reviewing it for TCS. I wondered what his source was for the following passage, on pp. 53-54: “In 1996, Irving Kristol had written: ‘With the end of the Cold… Continue reading

“Tell ’em we’re coming,” it read on the front of the shirts… “And hell is coming with us . . . .” No, it’s not John Kerry’s new campaign slogan (although maybe it should be?). It’s the Red Sox.

Victor Davis Hanson on threats of the future: It would be naïve of us to think that a Venezuela, a Saudi Arabia, or an Iran will ever unite with us to stop such terror, when the direct result of such uncertainty is an enhanced position for their regimes and cash windfalls in the tens of… Continue reading

Why Yankees Manager Joe Torre is a class act: Someone mentioned to Torre in the dugout yesterday that the Yankees, by losing 9 of their previous 15 games, had given the Red Sox life. Torre interrupted this fellow in midthought to set the record straight. “They gave themselves life,” he said. “We won five of… Continue reading