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Richard Brookhiser

Scandal Threatens House But May Save the Senate

When the Terror War was over the horizon, Washington was possessed by the story of the President having sex with an intern. Now that the Terror War is five years old, Washington is possessed by the story of a Congressman trolling for sex with pages.

Former Representative Mark Foley (R.-Fla.) resigned his seat when Read More

Scandal Threatens House But May Save the Senate

When the Terror War was over the horizon, Washington was possessed by the story of the President having sex with an intern. Now that the Terror War is five years old, Washington is possessed by the story of a Congressman trolling for sex with pages.

Former Representative Mark Foley (R.-Fla.) resigned his seat when evidence Read More

A Ruckus Broke Out; We See Now the Damage

There are four people at the bottom of Dante’s hell, and two of them are assassins.

Largest of the damned is Satan. The impact of his fall from Heaven plunged him into the center of the earth, where he stands, waist-deep in the lake Cocytus, which is kept perennially frozen by the beating of his Read More

A Ruckus Broke Out; We See Now the Damage

There are four people at the bottom of Dante’s hell, and two of them are assassins.

Largest of the damned is Satan. The impact of his fall from Heaven plunged him into the center of the earth, where he stands, waist-deep in the lake Cocytus, which is kept perennially frozen by the beating of Read More

An Honest French Novel And a Message for Today

The Frenchman was urgent. Still youngish, maybe 45, he had moved to New York City to catch his breath after a life spent in the intellectual atmosphere, antic but finally stultifying, of home. He did not use George Orwell’s phrase about “smelly little orthodoxies,” but that is clearly what he believed he had fled: a Read More

An Honest French Novel And a Message for Today

The Frenchman was urgent. Still youngish, maybe 45, he had moved to New York City to catch his breath after a life spent in the intellectual atmosphere, antic but finally stultifying, of home. He did not use George Orwell’s phrase about “smelly little orthodoxies,” but that is clearly what he believed he had fled: a Read More

As WTC Film Hits Theaters, World Braces for Sequel

On Sept. 12, 1939, John Colville, a junior secretary in the British Foreign Office, wrote in his diary that there was “a feeling of autumn in the air.” World War II was less than two weeks old. “It was unpleasantly chilly as I sat on the balcony in my dressing-gown reading in the papers that Read More

As WTC Film Hits Theaters, World Braces for Sequel

On Sept. 12, 1939, John Colville, a junior secretary in the British Foreign Office, wrote in his diary that there was “a feeling of autumn in the air.” World War II was less than two weeks old. “It was unpleasantly chilly as I sat on the balcony in my dressing-gown reading in the papers that Read More

If It’s Showtime!, Is It Giuliani Time?

Who is the bottle blonde on the cover of the current issue of National Review? (N.B.: I am a senior editor at the magazine.) When did cross-dressing sink so low? During the Mayoralty of Rudy Giuliani, of course.

That is the inner Rudy, parading himself at an Inner Circle dinner; please, give us the outer Read More

If It’s Showtime!, Is It Giuliani Time?

Who is the bottle blonde on the cover of the current issue of National Review? (N.B.: I am a senior editor at the magazine.) When did cross-dressing sink so low? During the Mayoralty of Rudy Giuliani, of course.

That is the inner Rudy, parading himself at an Inner Circle dinner; please, give us the Read More