Editor’s note: The announcement that Jimmy Carter had entered hospice care—in early 2023, nearly two years ago!—stimulated the chattering class into another of its orgies of jibber-jabber, as Andrew Ferguson noted at the time (below). Now that Carter has finally signed out of hospice care for good, the blather will only increase in quantity. But
REVIEW: ‘The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America, and Lost His Party’ Senator Mitch McConnell speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) December 22, 2024 Mitch McConnell is perhaps the most important conservative politician of the post-Reagan era. Both George W. Bush and now Donald Trump
Bernard-Henri Lévy’s Israel Alone contains much truth, but its title is fundamentally false. And this means that as insightful and eloquent as the author of this volume often is about the threats Israel faces, his thesis reveals that there is much about the world, and the Jewish place within it, that he does not understand.
As a seminarian in the order, I heard whispers of the conservative titan among the ranks of Midwestern Jesuits. Everyone I trusted told me I needed to meet him. While in Chicago, I met an unassuming priest who introduced himself simply as “Paul.” We spoke briefly and parted ways. I was told later that I’d
How a composer’s life can be a template for the West Handel statue (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) Although he wrote it for Easter, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is a December fixture in concert halls across the country. According to legend, King George II was so moved during the Hallelujah chorus that he leapt to his feet,
SOUTHERN ISRAEL—On December 11, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down NASDAQ’s diversity rules for corporate boards. The rules, which had been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), required boards to have at least one member who identifies as a minority or LGBTQ. The decision was another high-profile victory for Edward Blum,
Christmas burns. It’s an inferno that would consume the entire world, if it could: a riot of color and fantastical shapes, like the ballerinas of flame that dance in a fireplace. Just a flicker that starts around November to lick at the season’s kindling, building to a blaze by early December, and roaring up into