4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (354+ words) With the coming of spring, nature's mysteries are out to play. After what seemed like a biblical period of rain40 days and 40 nightsthe sun at last came out, as did the lizards on the terrace of my house in France, where…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (121+ words) The horrors of war are a recurring theme in the great Western art of the last century. Scalia was right. Many conservatives operate on the principle that art not explicitly engineered or marketed to appeal to them'say, a book promoted…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (781+ words) The men were thuggish, but some of the women were quite nice. The post The Kennedy Cult, Truth and Fiction appeared first on The American Conservative. The Kennedy Cult, Truth and Fiction The men were thuggish, but some of the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (272+ words) The Olympics should be a unifying occasion, not an outlet for political acrimony. Is sport bound to be entangled in politics, athletes inevitably tainted with the sins of their governments? It was not always so, and need not be. The…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (861+ words) The End of the War-Hero Writer'The American Conservative The End of the War-Hero Writer Expect no great man of letters to emerge from the bloodied fields of Iran. Modern warfare does not a good movie make. Nor a good book,…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (1079+ words) The "Colonization" of Britain Comes for Soccer'The American Conservative The "Colonization" of Britain Comes for Soccer Comments from a Manchester United owner exposed social fault lines in the immigration-swamped UK. Last month, one of Britain"s most successful businessmen, petrochemicals…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (277+ words) As I write this column, the snow has vanished, the sky is bright and cloudless, and the high temperature is somewhere in the bracing but companionable upper 40s. This means that my fellow Ohioans are dressing . . . in much the same manner…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (361+ words) From Mac Sledge to Col. Kilgore, Duvall's characters embodied the soul of our nation. There are so many indomitable performances by Duvall throughout his career that it's difficult to choose a favorite, but for me, his redemptive arc as Sledge…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (224+ words) A new biography of the great American writer is fresh without being faddish. Mark Twain by Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, 1200 pages. When I first became aware of the imminent publication of a new biography of Mark Twain, my first reaction…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (758+ words) They don't call 'em "good old days" for nothing. The post Washington Post, RIP appeared first on The American Conservative. They don't call 'em "good old days" for nothing. Bob Woodward's birthday falls on the 26th of March. There will be…...