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Prufrock: Bach's Accomplishment, the Politics of the 'Harry Potter' Generation, and the Enlightenment's Senses

Reviews and News:Shakespeare’s politics: “From London to Paris to Alexandria, Virginia—to say nothing of Central Park—there is no shortage...

Micah Mattix

1 yesterday

Showing-Up Ribbon

At Fort Jackson in South Carolina, the Army chief of staff, General Mark Milley, recently handed out for the first time certificates of graduation...

The Scrapbook

Meat Depressed

Sizzling steaks, burgers on the grill, bratwurst with a dollop of spicy mustard—what’s not to like?But to vegetarians, these dead-animal-flesh...

The Scrapbook

Oh, the Humanities!

When President Obama’s chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities finally stepped down from his post in late May—four months after...

The Scrapbook

Scarborough Fare

Joe Scarborough isn’t just a onetime congressman turned cable-TV talker, nor even just a handsome face. No, he is a rock ’n’ roller, a singer,...

The Scrapbook

Words and Music

In 1926, the British author Henry Green (1905-1973) published the first of nine novels that would gain him critical acclaim on both sides of the...

Danny Heitman

Theresa May—Or May Be Not

As Theresa May went to Brussels Thursday for the opening of the two-day European Council summit, a European Union official warned that she was in...

Dominic Green

Millstone

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Michael Ramirez

Patience Rewarded

Years ago the popular sociologist Vance Packard told me that he hated to have one of his books paired with another in a review. “All a review...

Michael Nelson

You Were There

In my time at Jesus College, Oxford (1956-58), I must have passed Eric Kennington’s evocative bust of T. E. Lawrence scores of times. It stood...

Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

Bohemian Rhapsody

The prolific children’s book author Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952) began her most famous work, Goodnight Moon, by describing how In the great...

Amy Henderson

Make Progress Exciting Again

French GuianaArianespace is the French company that fires off huge rocket ships blasting great big things so far up into the sky that they...

P.J. Orourke

Trump Delivers for Veterans

Following through on a campaign promise, President Donald Trump on Friday morning signed legislation aimed at reforming the famously dysfunctional...

Andrew Egger

0 yesterday

The Beginning of Reagan's Youth Brigades

Fifty years ago today, Ronald Reagan captured the hearts and minds of America's youth. The general view of the late 1960s is that it was a time...

Gene Kopelson

The Democrats Lose Another One

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, deputy online editor Chris Deaton talks with host Eric Felten about how and why the Democrats came up short in...

Tws Podcast

10 previous day

Trump's Partnership With China on North Korea On Thin Ice

President Donald Trump tweeted a somewhat cryptic message about China and North Korea on Tuesday: “While I greatly appreciate the efforts of...

Mıchael Warren

4 previous day

The New York Knicks Are an Abomination

Two years ago, the NBA’s New York Knicks drafted Kristaps Porzingis, a 7’3” superweapon who can shoot, run, and jump. He’s unique. The...

Chrıs Deaton

5 previous day

Prufrock: Banquets in Communist China, Mikhail Bulgakov's Tragic Life, and a History of the Rock Star

Reviews and News:Why did Mikhail Bulgakov, a conservative medical doctor from Kiev, remain in the Soviet Union? Hope of literary fame. But he was...

Micah Mattix

3 previous day

Senate Health Care Bill Faces Challenges From Within the GOP

Senate Republicans unveiled a 142-page bill to partially repeal and replace Obamacare on Thursday. The bill can only lose two GOP votes and still...

John Mccormack

1 previous day

Tim Tebow Gets Epically Trolled

Charleston, S.C.As you might expect for a team co-owned by Bill Murray, the class-A Charleston RiverDogs of Minor League Baseball excel at two...

Jeff Kennedy

10 previous day

Gowdy Seeks to Avoid Conflict With Mueller

With multiple–and potentially overlapping–investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election under way, a top Republican is...

Jenna Lifhits

10 previous day

This Isn't Quite the American Health Care Act

The Senate GOP has revealed its closely guarded alternative to the American Health Care Act, which stitches together significant changes to...

Chris Deaton

7 previous day

The NRA Is Not the ACLU of Guns

In the wake of Philando Castile's death at the hands of a police officer in Minnesota, much is being said about whether the National Rifle...

Jım Swıft

6 previous day

What, Precisely, Is the Key to Congressional Reform?

In DC Confidential, New York Law School professor David Schoenbrod describes how Congress degenerated from a responsible legislature, one that took...

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash

5 previous day

The Slavery Debate and Our Evolving Constitution

Timothy S. Huebner has produced a valuable study of American constitutionalism, a study that could do enormous good if people read it. Gracefully...

Richard Striner

4 previous day

Men Should Not Attend Baby Showers

Have a question for Matt Labash? Ask him at askmattlabash@gmail.com or click here.Dear Matt,I consider myself an enlightened guy. I respect women...

Matt Labash

10 wednesday

Cruz: Iran Is Our 'Single Greatest National Security Threat'

Iranian officials are slamming a freshly approved crop of congressional sanctions as a breach of the 2015 nuclear deal and have vowed to take...

Jenna Lifhits

60 wednesday

Ivanka and Rubio Hug It Out on Child Tax Credits

Ivanka Trump, assistant to and daughter of the president, trekked to Capitol Hill Tuesday for a meeting with Senator Marco Rubio to discuss the...

Mıchael Warren

7 wednesday

GOP Keeps Mulvaney's Seat in South Carolina, but Just Barely

In the race to fill the seat vacated by President Trump’s budget director, Republican real estate developer Ralph Norman on Tuesday beat his...

Tony Mecia

Six Lessons From Georgia's 6th District

Six thoughts about Georgia’s 6th congressional district:Donald Trump isn’t the drag on Republican candidates Democrats have been expecting him...

Fred Barnes

6 wednesday

Senators Sign Up For 'Free Speech 101'

The Senate Judiciary Committee tackles social and philosophical questions out on the edges of constitutionality. They process proposed...

Alıce B. Lloyd

5 wednesday

Prufrock: How Brainwashing Works, Julian Assange's Nihilism, and Emily Dickinson's Hope

Reviews and News:How brainwashing works: “I began my formal research in 1999, eight years after battling my way out of a secret, so-called...

Micah Mattix

Evangelicals Voice Opposition to Deportations of Iraqi Christians

Prominent evangelical leaders are condemning the Trump administration’s efforts to deport Iraqi immigrants, which include Chaldean Christians, as...

Hannah Long

5 wednesday

DHS Officials Tell Senators That 21 States Were Targeted by Russian Hackers

A Department of Homeland Security official on Wednesday compared the behavior of Kremlin-linked hackers seeking to disrupt the 2016 election to...

Jenna Lifhits

Mueller Meets With Lawmakers to Establish Dialogue

The heads of the House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian election interference met with special counsel Robert Mueller Tuesday, the...

Jenna Lifhits

Handel Hangs On in Most Expensive House Race Ever

Between the fundraising and national attention, it all appeared just peachy for Jon Ossoff. Then Georgia voted.Republican Karen Handel won election...

Chris Deaton

Democrats Go All-In for a 'Preseason' Game in Georgia

Democratic donors have poured tens of millions of dollars into the most expensive test run in the history of House campaigns.Some party strategists...

Chrıs Deaton

40 20.06.2017

Early Polling in Virginia Has Good News for Gillespie

After Corey Stewart narrowly lost the Republican nomination for governor of Virginia to Ed Gillespie, he declared, “There’s one word you...

Benjamin Parker

200 20.06.2017

Former North Korean Prisoner Dies, Trump Offers 'Deepest Condolences'

President Donald Trump offered “deepest condolences” Monday to the family of a college student who died shortly after returning home from North...

Mıchael Warren

50 20.06.2017

Trump's Missing Terror Tweets

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, senior writer Michael Warren joins host Eric Felten to discuss the lack of response by President Trump...

Tws Podcast

5 20.06.2017

Trump Still Silent on Latest London Terror Attack

Where is President Trump’s response to the terrorist attack in London? Not the June 3 attack, when three Muslim men in a van drove over several...

Mıchael Warren

5 20.06.2017

The Death of Otto Warmbier

Today on the Daily Standard podcast, Eric Felten talks with associate editor Ethan Epstein about North Korea's brutal treatment of the young...

Tws Podcast

Prufrock: The Real Obama, the Effects of Power on the Brain, and a History of al-Qaida

Reviews and News:David Garrow’s biography of Obama is the most detailed portrait of the former president to date. So why do the critics hate it?...

Micah Mattix

It's Medicaid, Stupid

All this time, the national headlines about health care reform in Congress have prioritized the terms “CBO” and “pre-existing conditions.”...

Chrıs Deaton

Closing Options for Adoptions

"Fostering kids is not an easy thing to do," Christi Dreier of Round Rock, Texas, recently told the Wall Street Journal. Dreier and her partner...

Naomi Schaefer Riley

4 20.06.2017

Midterm Watch: Comstock Faces Big Democratic Challenge in Virginia

Democrats are lining up to challenge Republican congresswoman Barbara Comstock in the 2018 midterms in Virginia’s 10th district. The field...

Grant Wishard

5 20.06.2017

Trails of the Jazz Age

Do we need another biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald? Since Arthur Mizener's inaugural one of 1951, there have been a number of successors including...

William H. Pritchard

Can Trump Bring Peace to Israel and Palestine?

Nathan Thrall is a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, where he focuses on the Arab-Israeli conflict. A frequent contributor to the...

Lee Smith

VA Secretary Discusses Cooperation With Private Hospitals

Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin on Tuesday morning defended the Trump administration’s 2018 budget and discussed his department’s...

Andrew Egger

Trump Is Trying to "Take Down" Mueller, Warns Congressman

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that the president is working to discredit and "take down" special counsel Bob...

Jenna Lifhits

10 19.06.2017

NPR Talks Smack

Public radio doesn't quite know what it wants us to think about the anti-addiction medicine Vivitrol.At the beginning of the month Marketplace was...

The Scrapbook

5 19.06.2017

The Old Brawl Game

More than eight years after they finished the new Yankee Stadium, I still get confused when I climb out of the subway at 161st and River Ave....

Lee Smıth

4 19.06.2017

One Tory's Story

York, EnglandAfter one of his many unfortunate generals sustained a particularly abject defeat, Abraham Lincoln remarked that the man was "confused...

Ted R. Bromund

5 19.06.2017

Understaffing Compounds Trump Administration's Problems

There are a lot of problems plaguing the Trump administration and hampering the White House from completing its agenda. President Trump's poll...

Mıchael Warren

5 19.06.2017

Prufrock: 'Land!' and Freedom, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150, and a New Punctuation Mark

Reviews and News:Remember that story last year about the Malaysian government funding The Wolf of Wall Street? Turns out they may have funded Dumb...

Micah Mattix

3 19.06.2017

Smoke 'Em Even If You Can't Afford 'Em

When you travel to a country like France, Spain, or South Korea, you notice something about the lifestyles of the professional classes there:...

Ethan Epsteın

4 19.06.2017

Will Regulators Scrutinize Amazon's Purchase of Whole Foods?

The company that is the 12th biggest in the U.S., larger than all the big banks, is staunchly anti-union. It's putting mom-and-pop retailers out of...

Tony Mecia

3 19.06.2017

It's 'Cultural Appropriation' All the Way Down

Could "cultural appropriation"—a term that applies to everything from a drug company’s poaching an ancient herbal remedy to Katy Perry in...

Alice B. Lloyd

1 19.06.2017

Crimson Tidings

It is now hard to imagine, but before the mid-1960s most books, and not only on art historical subjects, appeared without a speck of color. It was...

Elizabeth Powers

9 18.06.2017

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night ...

There are many pressures in reporting a breaking news story—getting the facts and getting them out before the next guy perhaps paramount among...

The Scrapbook

5 18.06.2017

Jutland: Victory (?) at Sea

The Battle of Jutland reverberates powerfully in the history of naval combat, and it does so with a resonance that equals or exceeds that of such...

Joseph Callo

5 18.06.2017

Confab: Get the Tax Cuts You Can Get

In this episode of the Confab, executive editor Fred Barnes talks with Eric Felten about why the GOP should focus, not on broad tax reform, but on...

Tws Podcast

3 17.06.2017

Prufrock: A Dangerous Book, Conserving Modern Art, and the West's Self-

Reviews and News:Philip Hamburger's dangerous book: "A small study of law, The Administrative Threat obviously lacks the raw emotional appeal of a...

Micah Mattix

2 17.06.2017

NBC's Fake News Show

When is the Nightly News the Nitely News? When ratings are lousy.You might be forgiven for thinking NBC has but one flagship evening newscast, the...

The Scrapbook

3 17.06.2017

Janet Yellen's Very Bad Week

It was a bad week for the president of the United States and might prove to have been a career-ending week for the chair of the Federal Reserve...

Irwin M. Stelzer

2 17.06.2017

Rising to the Occasion

Journals like this one exist, generally speaking, not to praise politicians but to chastise, to upbraid, or at least to criticize them. And so,...

The Editors

10 17.06.2017

Trump's Fate Rests With Mueller

Today on the Kristol Clear podcast, Democrats may want to impeach President Trump for anything or nothing, and Republicans may want to try to...

Tws Podcast

10 17.06.2017

The Other Tom

So, The Mummy. The question that bedevils me as I begin this review is how I can get to the end of it. Like Lucy in Peanuts, I am now counting...

John Podhoretz

20 17.06.2017

Fact Check: Is Newt Gingrich Right to Say a President 'Cannot' Obstruct Justice?

Newt Gingrich defended President Trump against allegations that Trump's firing of James Comey was a crime. Gingrich's legal interpretation: "the...

Benjamin Parker

20 17.06.2017

Mueller Investigation Ramps Up While Pence Lawyers Up

The special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election—and the possible involvement of the Trump campaign or associates...

Mıchael Warren

3 16.06.2017

Prufrock: The Deadliest Motorcycle Race in the World, Red and the West, and Politically-Correct Racism

Reviews and News:Yoko Ono to share credit for "Imagine": "David Israelite, the chief executive of the National Music Publishers Association,...

Micah Mattix

4 16.06.2017

The More Times Are A-Changin’, the More They Stay the Same

The news that Bob Dylan cribbed parts of his Nobel speech from SparkNotes, of all places, serves one excellent purpose: It has quieted down the...

Andrew Ferguson

5 16.06.2017

A Tale of Two Cubas

HavanaAmerican tourists are flocking to Cuba, making them the largest contingent to visit the island after Canadians. Demand has been growing ever...

Ronald Radosh And Allis Radosh

5 16.06.2017

Politics and Baseball

I was a late convert to baseball. I never played it growing up—or even watched it, for that matter. I went to one Orioles game my freshman year...

Jonathan V. Last

Lawmakers Urge Trump Not to Disrupt Mueller Investigation

President Donald Trump on Friday confirmed that he is the subject of an investigation by special counselor Robert Mueller in a tweet was...

Jenna Lifhits

Victory (?) at Sea

The Battle of Jutland reverberates powerfully in the history of naval combat, and it does so with a resonance that equals or exceeds that of such...

Joseph Callo

Culture Clash

Timothy S. Huebner has produced a valuable study of American constitutionalism, a study that could do enormous good if people read it. Gracefully...

Richard Striner

3 16.06.2017

Cover Your Acts

In DC Confidential, New York Law School professor David Schoenbrod describes how Congress degenerated from a responsible legislature, one that took...

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash

On 'Civility' Two Years After Trump Announced for President

It was two years ago Friday when Donald Trump descended an escalator inside Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president. Did he drag the...

Chrıs Deaton

The Upside of the Downturn

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Irwin M. Stelzer

The Attack on ‘Charlie Hebdo’

This past week, at least a dozen French people, most of them journalists at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, were gunned down during an...

Christopher Caldwell

Leopold Bloom's Trump Day

Nerds the world over go all out for Bloomsday. It's June 16, the anniversary of James Joyce and his wife Nora Barnacle's first date in 1904, also...

Alice B. Lloyd

Trump Announces Cuba Sanctions

President Trump announced Friday that the U.S. would strengthen economic and diplomatic sanctions on Cuba, undoing an Obama policy of more open...

Andrew Egger

Hungry for Love

This is the bicentenary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë, and to celebrate it comes a biography by the British writer Claire Harman. Charlotte...

Malcolm Forbes