May 25, 2023

Dissecting Obama

Not so long ago, America had a great economy, the lowest unemployment ever for a range of demographic groups, energy independence, an increasingly secure southern border, a strong international profile, and no new wars. It had freedom. It had nationa...

April 22, 2022

David Horowitz: American Prophet

For a couple of years toward the end of the last century, David Horowitz contributed a regular column to the online magazine Salon. In 1999 he gathered those columns in a book entitled Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes. To return to this boo...

January 31, 2021

Hollywood Heartbreak: Peter Collier's Envoi to JFK

The Kennedys were famous for their hangers-on. They seemed countless in number, and limitless in their devotion. They started as JFK’s team during the first years of his political career, and they were constantly at his beck and call, apparentl...

June 5, 2020

David Horowitz’s Thumbs-up for Trump

Three years ago, the inauguration of the forty-fifth president of the United States was commemorated by a concert featuring Lee Greenwood and Jon Voight, a parade, three official inaugural balls, massive women’s marches, the writing of a fishy ...

June 11, 2017

The WaPo vs. David Horowitz

For some perverse reason, I've always found it easier to write with the sound of talking in the background. If there's nobody around, I put on a podcast or an episode of some cable TV series. The other day I put on All the President's Men...