There are some titans of 20th century American Literature that I have so far been remiss in reading. I have yet to crack Saul Bellow, I’m ashamed to admit. And there are other legendary novelists I have to catch up on. Norman Mailer is not one of them.

Surprising bellyaching from both Glenn Reynolds and Andrew Sullivan about Bush’s flight out to the carrier. Lighten up, guys! Those men and women have been at sea for almost longer than any other carrier—the Commander-in-Chief decides to extend them the courtesy of flying out to say thank you (add to that the fact the carrier… Continue reading

After the media hysteria over Shiite protests and the “looting” of the Iraqi National Museum, a welcome perspective from NRO’s Victor Davis Hanson: “The sheer number of factions emerging in Iraq is proof of the birth-pangs of democracy, the principled reluctance of the United States to impose its own rule, and the near-impossibility of fundamentalists… Continue reading

That big play today (four column head, page one) the New York Times gave the horror stories of torture and maiming in Iraq should be enough to convince die-hard Bush haters that the President did the world a major service in ridding it and the people of Iraq of a monster comparable to Adolph Hitler.… Continue reading

Guilty of intellectual dishonesty? David Berlinki’s latest in this month’s issue of Commentary (sadly, you have to pay for it online—but it’s well worth it) is a damning indictment of the increasingly shrill and tiresome Richard Dawkins. Dawkins has made a great show of claiming that a 1994 paper by biologists Suzanne Pelger and Dan-Erik… Continue reading