The summer before I went to college, a much-admired older boy loaned me a copy of Scorsese on Scorsese, a book-length interview concerning Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and other pictures from the director’s early oeuvre. I had seen none of those movies. Yet, the volume was a revelation, not only because of its […]

“Don’t take drugs!” Frances McDormand’s character in Almost Famous hollers after she has deposited her son, 15-year-old aspiring rock writer William Miller (Patrick Fugit), at a raucous concert in Southern California in the early 1970s. Perhaps you had to have been a member of the Just Say No club at a tiny suburban private school […]

“Antisemitism,” the German writer August Bebel remarked more than a century ago, “is the socialism of fools.” Recent events prove as much. For many on the global Left, antisemitism, dressed up in moral righteousness, has become the latest pet cause. And regrettably, once venerable institutions are now mainstreaming it for the broader public.  On Aug. […]

President Donald Trump has grown weary of Democrats’ efforts to prolong the government shutdown. He has called on Republican senators to use the “nuclear option” to end it. In two posts to his Truth Social account late Thursday night, the president urged Republicans to end the filibuster in order to end the shutdown. In his […]