Of course, none of the feminists were in the office in the hours after Sarah Palin’s introduction as John McCain’s running mate. Maybe they were off celebrating the great moment in women’s history. I ...

Laura Ingraham attacked Jon Stewart on Monday night’s “The Angle,” calling him a “sneering prig” for his views on racial equality in the U.S. and accusing him of stacking his panel of guests to team ...

CS Lewis, Oxford don and author of The Chronicles of Narnia (left) and his one-time student (and future poet laureate) John Betjeman No one wields a well-turned insult like a professional writer. As ...

James Comey did it, naturally, for the children. Why does anyone in Washington take advantage of the most opportune moment to make a mint off publishing a tell-all book? It’s never for the profits or ...

In his 1986 study of theology and art, Real Presences, the philosopher George Steiner challenges us all to imagine a world without formal criticism. Instead, this imaginary society would be based on a ...

REAL PEOPLE by Alison Lurie. 180 pages. Random House. $4.95. Janet Belle Smith, 42, is a minor short-story writer who is appreciated for her cultivated prose and sensitivity. Each summer she leaves ...