I’m a Downton Abbey fan, and I’m glad the series started up again, last season though it be. I am rather astonished, though, at the hype and frenzy around this excellent portrayal of the British class system in the first half of the 20th century.
I’m a Downton Abbey fan, and I’m glad the series started up again, last season though it be. I am rather astonished, though, at the hype and frenzy around this excellent portrayal of the British class system in the first half of the 20th century.
An international think tank has released its list of the top risks to global stability in 2016. The world remains a dangerous place. The first problem listed: America’s new weakness and irrelevance in the world. (more…)
The left continues to condemn colonialism. Western nations taking over “third world” countries was indeed morally problematic and the source of many problems today in our “post-colonial” world. But today the left is championing a “new colonialism,” one that insists on imposing the modern West’s
Evangelist Franklin Graham, son of Billy, has quit the Republican party, due to the way the GOP-led Congress abandoned the goal of defunding Planned Parenthood so as to pass the budget. But he hasn’t abandoned politics. He is planning to hold rallies in all 50
In another reminder that the turmoil in the Middle East is not all about us, the Saudis executed, along with 46 criminals, a prominent Shiite leader. Protests have broken out throughout the Muslim world. Iranians have occupied the Saudi embassy, and the two countries have
Happy New Year! This is the day we look forward and contemplate the year ahead, making resolutions about the changes we’d like to make and planning for the future. Along with the custom of making New Year’s resolutions is the custom of saying that they
Yesterday we looked at our predictions for 2015. Today we give our predictions for 2016. What do you think will happen in the year ahead? To win our annual blog contest for best prediction, make your prediction as specific as possible. For example, our recent
Merry New Year’s Eve! It has long been the custom at this blog to make predictions for the coming year (we’ll do that tomorrow, on New Year’s Day) and then to check them on the last day of that year. The one who makes the
Every New Year’s Eve, I look back on the events of the past year. I do so by reading Dave Barry’s Year in Review. The month by month retrospective has the virtue of being very funny, which makes the survey of the year’s madness much
I’ve got to say, I’m excited that the Sooners of the University of Oklahoma, one of my alma maters, is in the college football playoffs tonight. I had given up on them after they lost to Texas, but here they are, playing the undefeated Clemson
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