In the three U.S. presidential debates -- the first of them, on foreign affairs, is tomorrow night -- John Kerry will have to follow through on his boast of being a "good closer" to ...
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Eight out of 10 Americans think it is "always wrong." Yet 25% of U.S. men and 15% of women do it anyway. It is fodder for both tragedy and farce in Western culture, grounds for execu...
How much intellect is necessary -- or even desirable -- in a world leader? How about in the people who choose him?
According to a CNN poll taken shortly after the first presidential d...
A bout of stomach flu took me out of commission last week, and for 36 hours I could think of nothing but the impossibility of ever eating another thing. In fact, I wondered how I had...
SAVANNAH, Ga. and CHARLESTON, S.C. - Everyone asks: Has American politics ever been so divisive? Last week I toured Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., two solidly Bush states that di...
No, I'm not talking about Bush and Kerry -- but rather two evils that have plagued America: the Ku Klux Klan and Communism. The homegrown KKK was overtly depraved and killed or terro...
May one gloat if one was right? Indulge me. Last December, in a review of retiring Georgia Senator Zell Miller's book about the Democratic Party, A National Party No More, I co...
What public officials say when bad leaders die is revealing. Their words reflect what they assume the constituencies they represent believe, or what they assume will be tolerated bei...
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 17, 2004
Through Survivors' Eyes: From the Sixties ...
I have singled out Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick for censure in the past, I'm rounding on her again today, and if she continues to set herself up for ridicule as Canada's ...
CBC's Greatest Canadian final showdown was excruciatingly disagreeable to watch for content and presentation reasons. Additionally offensive was the absence of those who didn't make ...
Pre-emptive self-mockery has long been a Jewish specialty. This past weekend, I cracked up at an especially hilarious recent specimen: The Hebrew Hammer. Written and dire...
Today's column is in part an amateur poll on intellectual harassment in our universities. I'm asking Canada's future educators and lawmakers -- students in, or recent grads from, the...
Dec. 27 marks the 100th anniversary of Peter Pan's opening to instant success at London's Duke of York theatre. I well remember my own Christmastime childhood introduction to its mag...
Where Time's wing'd flight is concerned, New Year's Eve is one of the few occasions when I am completely in sync with my fellows. Nobody wants to miss the countdown at 11:59 p.m., so...