William Safire Dead at 79

Fitting, perhaps, that on Sunday William Safire followed his fellow conservative commentator and native New Yorker Irving Kristol into death.

Mr. Safire was not the father of a movement like Mr. Kristol, but he was often the clever public voice, a reporter-turned-speechwriter with an eye toward playing the press. It was Mr. Safire, after all, Read More

I Become a Crime Victim


After the rock

I went for a walk yesterday and when I got back to the trail head some s.o.b. had knocked out my window with a rock, then pulled the emergency brake. I’d put a block under the back tire, otherwise my truck would have rolled out into traffic. It took me a Read More

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Power Punk: Mark Gerson

Right-wing networker; boutique investment researcher; would-be Newark power broker; Sky Club luncher

“Tucker Carlson is one of my very best friends,” Mark Gerson said. The co-founder and chief executive of the Gerson Lehrman Group, a boutique investment-research firm, looked fit-if somewhat intense-in his close-cropped hair and navy suit on a recent Wednesday afternoon in a Read More