I think of myself as a reasonably tough guy, allowing for advancing age and decreasing height. I’ve risked my neck a couple of times rescuing women — one from a purse robber, another from a violent boyfriend. But I’ve never…

O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming; And…

No movie company squandered customer goodwill faster and more fatally than Disney. That a name literally synonymous with wholesome family entertainment would be soiled to mean the opposite bothered no one at the studio. “Our greatest natural resource is the…

For the past decade, my television viewing had alternated almost exclusively between Fox News and Turner Classic Movies, with the occasional PBS British mystery. In the two months since Fox fired Tucker Carlson, it has been only TCM. The vintage…

There’s a riveting scene in the classic World War II adventure film, The Guns of Navarone (1961), where the Allied commando leader played by Gregory Peck is devastated to learn the pretty Greek freedom fighter (Gia Scala) he has fallen…

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual…

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. — William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra The expression “Get woke, go broke” increased in cachet…

Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, newest Republican candidate for president, and Iraq War veteran (as a Navy JAG), said a poignant thing in a recent speech in Iowa that is worth recalling this Memorial Day weekend. Addressing the mounting attacks…

After enduring a half-century of radical feminist male-bashing, men must once more come to rescue women from disaster, if not extermination. The Left’s fear and loathing of real men goes so deep, and its cultural domination is so great, the…

In 1984, the Democratic governor of Louisiana, Edwin Edwards, coined what became known as a standard rule of politics. Weighing the high odds for his reelection, Edwards said, “The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught…