Miles Davis’s 1959 album Kind of Blue is the best-selling instrumental jazz album of all time. As the music-buying public is rightly suspicious of jazz, that makes Kind of Blue the kind of jazz that people who don’t like jazz can stand. This was not what Davis had in mind when he convened a six-piece
There are two mistakes we can make about life in North America in the first century of English colonization. The first is the common one which many, if not most, of us grew up with, that the English settlers of the Atlantic seaboard at first lived happy and fraternal lives with the tribes of that
The first shocking thing about Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography of James Bond creator Ian Fleming is that it is over 700 pages long and includes almost another hundred of notes. The second shocking thing is that all of them are necessary. Shakespeare does go on a tangent or two, but in providing a complete portrait of
President Joe Biden on Monday kicked off the annual White House Easter Egg Roll by asking the crowd to “say hello to oyster bunnies.” He then continued his string of inappropriate interactions with children by sniffing a baby who attended the event. The infamous ghost handshake also made an appearance this week following a speech
‘There’s no software company in the world that can actually meet that regulation’ (Sean Rayford/Getty Images) The White House touted President Joe Biden’s “Investing In America Agenda” this week, as major companies warn that his administration’s strict environmental regulations are forcing them to reconsider investments in the U.S. that would otherwise help shore up domestic
A Rutgers University town hall descended into anarchy Thursday evening as anti-Israel students chanted demands to “globalize the intifada,” hurled anti-Semitic insults at Jewish students, and forced the school’s president to end the event early, according to videos of the event and attendees who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon. One video obtained by the Free
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, said an Iranian retaliation is “inevitable” days after an airstrike, reportedly by Israeli forces, destroyed Iran’s consulate in Damascus and killed two Iranian generals. “Be certain that Iran’s response to the targeting of its Damascus consulate is inevitable,” Nasrallah warned in a speech marking Quds