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S ometimes we know what a novel’s last line will be from the beginning, we just don’t know that we knew. It’s a trick readers of Less—a recent...
I n recent years we’ve seen troubling trends in young Americans’ intellectual growth. From college students’ inability or unwillingness to...
On today's Daily Standard Podcast, Politico editor-in-chief John Harris joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss President Trump's recent Twitter...
N ot for the first time, Americans appear to be slightly confused about events in France. The mass demonstrations that began as a protest against...
W hen President Trump forced Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign on November 7 and appointed the unqualified Matthew Whitaker as acting...
‘T he artist has more glitter, and would be open to installing the work in multiple locations.” I responded with a thoughtful scowl and nod, as...
The Elegies of Maximianus edited and translated by A.M. JusterPennsylvania, 223 pp., $65 T he very last great moment in all of ancient literature...
Maybe you have to live in the bleak midwinter to get it. Maybe you have to see the countryside in its ash-white purity to understand—the...
Donald Trump is frequently faulted, and rightly so, for attempting to take credit for things he had nothing to do with. With Trump, though, you get...
M y career as a movie critic began almost 40 years ago in the pages of the American Spectator with a review of The Warriors, the story of a New...
In most of the European Union, when the authorities hold a plebiscite and don’t get the result they want, they hold another, and another, until...
H ow much luck is involved in winning at Scrabble? According to a recent study, more than you might think. Daniel Johnson steps down as editor of...
Y ou learn things about yourself when you’re trapped in an Egyptian tomb with a group of relatives and strangers. In my case, I found out I’m a...
F or more than two years, President Donald Trump has pushed for a “new Industrial Revolution” that aims to put American workers first, build new...
New information from the Census Bureau confirms that the Swamp is still the Swamp. Between 2013 and 2017, the five wealthiest areas in America by...
Much has already been said about Donald Trump’s rambling, semicoherent statement on the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia in light of...
We tried to look away, but it was no use once we read the headline: “Why It Matters That Alex Trebek Mispronounced The Name Of My People On...
The American left, as we’ve had occasion to remark in these pages before, suffers from a paucity of new ideas. Or maybe it’s truer to say it...
The Scrapbook has had occasion to complain from time to time about the way in which journalists in the mainstream news media use the terms “...
I n the past two decades schadenfreude, a German word that means (according to the Oxford English Dictionary) “malicious enjoyment of the...
How Did Lubitsch Do It? by Joseph McBrideColumbia, 561 pp., $40 T here were two things wrong with the headline on the Washington Post’s review of...
A t a congressional hearing this week, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) asked an irate and not entirely comprehensible question about his granddaughter’s...
O n November 29, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released three reports on disturbing topics that no one quite knows how to address....
For two years we’ve watched as highly educated liberals come up with one reason after another for Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 election....
T he hot cause right now is prison reform, and even lots of conservatives are on board. The Heritage Foundation put out an article with this title:...
M ost customers have done their research by the time they step onto the Wilson Motors lot in Logan, Utah. Increasingly, that research is leading...
T his year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Gounod (1818-1893), the most celebrated French composer in his time, known today for...
The Scrapbook has a weakness for hardcover collections of essays and columns. Not many people like them, judging by how well they sell, but we...
On Christmas A Seasonal Anthology edited by Rosie HeysNotting Hill Editions, 166 pp., $18.95 A s one popular theory goes, Charles Dickens deserves...
Fairies A Dangerous History by Richard SuggReaktion, 279 pp., $25 The Dragon Fear and Power by Martin ArnoldReaktion, 328 pp., $27 T here is a...
W hether the Frankenstein monster can or cannot be killed is still debated among movie fans, raising the possibility that it will live forever. But...
Nikki Haley has accomplished something no other Republican has managed in the Trump era: She’s departing a high-profile job in better shape...
In his The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, Joseph Pearce obliquely defined propaganda as “a collage of facts, carefully constructed, can either present...
I t was way back in 1897 when Virginia Hanlon sent a letter to the editor of the New York Sun. “Dear Editor,” she wrote, “I am 8 years old. Some...
In this latest episode, the Substandard discusses the new Avengers trailer, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and the Netflix gambit. Sonny loves...
On today's Daily Standard Podcast, frequent contributor Adam J. White joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the latest with the Mueller probe,...
Anniversaries From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl by Uwe Johnsontranslated by Damion SearlsNew York Review Books, 1668 pp. (two vols.), $39.95 W hen...
Danny Heitman writes about Charles Dickens’s 1842 trip to Washington that “left the novelist profoundly unhappy with America and its capital.”...
The conventional wisdom about the 2018 House elections was that Democrats won in the suburbs—that is, that college-educated white suburbanites...
Theresa May is the master of disaster and the mistress of distress. These are not compliments but indices of the sustained malfunctioning of the...
In October, Republican senators were the champions of due process. They argued that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh must be presumed innocent...
On today's Daily Standard podcast, deputy online editor Jim Swift and reporter Andrew Egger discuss what President Trump's explosive meeting with...
Clive James writes about Philip Larkin’s “extraordinary” everyday life: “As the ancillary books of correspondence and commentary accumulate,...
The day before Thanksgiving, former FBI director James Comey was served a subpoena from House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte. Comey was...
I n this holiday season as in many others, Americans will renew their affection for Charles Dickens, whose iconic 1843 novel A Christmas Carol is a...
As a bipartisan coalition of senators prepared to advance a resolution to end the United States’ role in the Yemeni civil war on Wednesday...
The story goes that the head writer on The Simpsons television show walked into a meeting one morning, two small band-aids on the same cheek,...
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement—BDS for short—attempts to persuade the world to break off all economic and diplomatic relations...
Two years ago, Alexis Lightcap, then a student at Boyertown Area Senior High School in Pennsylvania, stumbled into a national debate when she...
On this week's TMQ podcast, columnist Gregg Easterbrook joins host Charlie Sykes to recount the Miami Miracle and why it'll be watched for...
I ’m no fan of President Trump, but it’s a disease, this sudden preoccupation of writers to say something “relevant” in this “age” of...
S unday in Hell’s Sports Bar, every flatscreen was tuned to Detroit at Arizona, a cringeworthy pairing of awful teams. But in that otherwise...
Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Aldous Huxley must have been shaking his head and saying “I told you so” after Chinese scientist He Jiankui...
B y the time we catch up with the migrant caravan, the group has already spent 10 weeks in the media spotlight and played a starring role in the...
The welcome news emerging from the G20 meeting in Argentina this month was that China and the United States had agreed to a truce in the escalating...
With a full weekend to digest the filings on Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort, the picture Robert Mueller’s investigation is assembling has come...
E ven for the commentators whose job it is to follow these things, tracking the progress of special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing and...
The letters of Flannery O’Connor and Allen Tate’s wife, Caroline Gordon, are “not just a collection of letters, which would be valuable in and...
On today's Daily Standard podcast, deputy online editor Jim Swift and reporter Andrew Egger discuss last Friday's explosive developments in the...