"What sort of people were these? What were they talking about? What office did they belong to? K. was living in a free country, after all..."

"... everywhere was at peace, all laws were decent and were upheld, who was it who dared accost him in his own home?" A Kafka quot...

Finally! "The Greening of America" is out on Kindle.

Got it! [CAVEAT: The Kindle version is newly abridged, "compressing the original 125,000 words to an Internet-friendly 24,000 words and...

Obama says "it’s clear we are on the precipice of achievement..."

"... that’s eluded Congresses, presidents for generations — an achievement that will touch the lives of nearly every American." On...

Asked at the Saddleback Forum "when does a[n unborn] baby get human rights," why did Obama say the answer is "above my pay grade"?

Roger Kimball finds Obama's "above my pay grade" feint on abortion "insulting and mendacious." It is insulting beca...

Jerome R. Corsi's #1 bestseller "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality."

Jim Rutenberg and Julie Bosman discuss the book and interview the author, who also wrote "Unfit for Command" (the notorious ...

The art that was obviously a hoax was a hoax.

WaPo reports: A Yale University student's senior art project, which she said documented her bleeding during repeated self-induced aborti...

Norman Mailer died.

Today. Remember when he ran for Mayor? I do. The idea was that NYC should be the 51st state. It'd be the 12th largest, you know. (In cas...

"Our avant-gardist artistic establishment... prefers to exercise its anti-bourgeois animus within the coddled purlieus of bourgeois security."

Brilliant New Criterion editor Roger Kimball writes about the horrendous Hans Neuenfels production of Mozart's opera "Idomeneo...

Still wallowing in the 60s.

I've been listening to the audiobook of Roger Kimball's "The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed Ameri...

"Boredom: the desire for desires."

I was thinking about boredom -- and not because I was bored -- so I read the Wikiquote quotes on Boredom . I liked the above-quoted one best...

Is anyone saying anything interesting about "The Gates"?

You can go to Central Park and see "The Gates," or you can look at the pictures of it that are everywhere, and we all know what it...