2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (859+ words) The American Conservative Netflix’s 9/11 Documentary Is Too Big for its Runtime Turning Point never settles on what it’s actually arguing. Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Much of the director Brian Knappenberger’s…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (217+ words) The conflagrations in France provide an occasion for deciding what is actually valuable. I was prey to strange thoughts and emotions. My library, for example, is in effect an autobiography that only I can read. There is evidence in it…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (413+ words) Other historical analogies offer more relevant lessons. In 1919, John Maynard Keynes left the Paris Peace Conference convinced the Allies were making a blunder of historic proportions. In The Economic Consequences of the Peace, he prophesied that the terms imposed by…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (377+ words) The terms of bureaucratic discipline drift ever further from the actual usages of the English language. A teacher of English told me in his class more than sixty years ago that his job was to teach discrimination: between the meritorious…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (209+ words) It’s not John Wayne’s Tinseltown anymore. I read something awful the other day, and it had to do with Hollywood. It seems a truly ghastly horror movie called Sinners earned all sorts of awards from an industry of such moral…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (286+ words) In the pews, a manly example is indispensable. When I used to try to sing in church, I would picture in my mind the public figures I admired most making a joyful noise from the pews. Two decades ago, during…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (251+ words) Graffitists and modern architects alike are screaming into the void of mass culture. Once more on my way from the center of Paris to the airport, I marvelled at the sheer hideousness of almost everything built since the end of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (425+ words) The American Conservative Barbarism Begins at Home Can abortion opponents turn the tide against Massachusetts-style radicalism? Massachusetts’s Gov. Maura Healey on August 10 signed a new law giving doctors the prerogative to perform late-term abortions based on their own medical judgment…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (243+ words) Biden-era prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are still using wild-man tactics. Jamie McDonald’s got his work cut out for him. Sworn in on July 29 as the new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, he…...

4+ week, 6+ hour ago   (1271+ words) Mass migration continues to sap the UK’s social and economic capital. The post The Costs of British Immigration Keep Rising appeared first on The American Conservative. The Costs of British Immigration Keep Rising Mass migration continues to sap the UK’s…...