The McNeil affair is hardly exceptional in its grotesque unfairness
By John R. MacArthur
I haven’t seen so many overflowing garbage cans or homeless people since the 1970s
By John R. MacArthur
The President has a surprising capacity for progressive-sounding political analysis
By John R. MacArthur
The 400 film reviews he wrote for the magazine are full of sparkling observation
By John R. MacArthur
The banning of Roman Polanski’s film about the Dreyfus affair is history repeating itself
By John R. MacArthur
The Massachusetts senator is a left-wing populist for people who don’t want left-wing populism
By John R. MacArthur
If you can’t find high crimes in the Mueller report, you’re just not looking
By John R. MacArthur
The Amazon founder is no friend of the free press
By John R. MacArthur
It’s come as a rude surprise that polite behaviour seems to have disappeared wholesale from society
By John R. MacArthur
To some, Tom Wolfe’s death might seem a greater loss for readers on the right wing of American culture and politics, since he viewed himself as a conservative, very much in keeping with his upbringing in the Richmond, Virginia, of the 1930s and 1940s. His gentleman’s manners and soft-spoken demeanour recalled another era — a […]
By John R. MacArthur
For Horace Hopper, the half-breed protagonist of Willy Vlautin’s bleak new novel, essential truths come slowly, and usually too late to do him any good. Abandoned by his Native American mother and Irish American father, he has exiled himself from the only people who love him, an elderly couple on a sheep ranch in deepest […]
By John R. MacArthur
