How far will the Republican establishment descend to embrace Pat Buchanan in a desperate effort to restrain him from defecting to the Reform Party? The apparent impulse to love-bomb the bomb-thrower is perfectly understandable-even though such pragmatic maneuvering might ultimately disfigure the new image of tolerance and inclusiveness that party leaders have been striving to Read More
The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy , by William F. Buckley Jr. Little, Brown, 421 pages, $25.
Now here is an unpromising project: “a novel based on the life of Senator Joe McCarthy.” I suppose we should be grateful it’s not an opera or epic poem.
William Read More
Little Green Men , by Christopher Buckley. Random House, 300 pages, $24.95.
Christopher Buckley has called himself the Cyndi Lauper of American letters. He just wants to have fun.
He’s good at it, he has lots of it. Mr. Buckley produces high-end humor in vast quantities. He tosses off, with alarming ease, New Yorker Read More
Harry Evans, editorial director of Mortimer Zuckerman’s mini media empire, has declared war on a persistent and, to his mind, extremely bothersome foe: Toby Young.
Toby Young ? That partygoing British freelancer with the shaved head who once edited The Modern Review and did light-lifting for Graydon Carter at Vanity Fair ?
The same. Read More
After five years as the No. 2 editor at The New York Times Magazine , Adam Moss is being handed its reins. As of April 1, Jack Rosenthal, the magazine’s current editor and an assistant managing editor of the daily newspaper, will have the title of editor in chief of the magazine, as well as Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
