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Speaking of the past coming right back at you suddenly, while I was in LA Dutton's bookstore in Brentwood closed down. It was a very g...

A friend from Swarthmore College days sent me a link to this Vanity Fair article by Amy Fine Collins , a classmate, about rediscovering her ...

I just had to read Nothing Serious when heard that Carla Bruni--wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy--was one of the characters depicte...

I came across Alex Abella 's fascinating book Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire in the LAX ...

While in Santa Monica for my father's funeral, I learned that my boyhood friend Kevin N. Lewis--the most brilliant person I ever knew--h...

UPDATE: Here's a photo of my father and my mother that I took in April, 2008: My father passed away this evening, so I will be offline f...

With the transfer of presidential power in Moscow from Vladimir Putin to Dimitry Medvedev, Leon Aron explains the legacy of Putinism in AEI&...

From DanielPipes.org : Two religiously-identified new states emerged from the shards of the British empire in the aftermath of World War II....

Someone I know just came back from a trip and went straight to this blog, her favorite. It's got lots of pictures of cute animals, stori...

According to Haaretz , Israeli Independence Day on May 8th and Russian Victory Day on May 9th : Based on the medals, he was not only an out...

Patricia Sullivan published an outstanding article in today's Washington Post about the woman whose 1967 Supreme Court case put an end ...

(ht MilkandCookies.com. ) More Post-It animation on the Scary Dolls website.

Here's a controversy that came as news to me: Researchers are fighting plans to move them from the main builiding in the Library of Cong...

From VivaCinodeMayo.org: The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be! And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, b...

Here, reflecting on Eight Belles , Althouse quotes Montaigne: "At the stumbling of a horse, at the falling of a tile,... let us... sa...

From The Sun (UK): Alcohol will be made illegal in a bid to curb crime and yobs on the Underground network – as Boris promised Sun readers...

While reading about Boris Johnson's victory in London in his house organ, I saw this cover story by Melanie Phillips, which is worth rea...

In Cousin Lucy's Spoon: The American Election Campaign: choose your family or choose your century? , my cousin has an interesting perspe...

From the Telegraph (UK): The change of mood is the most striking thing. When I approached my London polling station early on Thursday mornin...

EDITOR MATTHEW D'ANCONA congratulates a contributor to The Spectator (UK) : Greetings to all CoffeeHousers from the 29th Floor of Millba...