When it comes to politicians, as a citizen, you have got to put aside mistaken notions of loyalty and obligation. You owe no politician anything. They owe you. Therefore, you must put aside notions of ...

A little more than a century ago, Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” introduced a new kind of American novel: one composed of short stories that share a setting and that elevate, one by one, ...

Yesterday, James Piereson weighed in on Lyndon Johnson and liberal sentimentality–a huge topic, that. It would take a different sort of Robert Caro, one attuned to the political uses of mendacity, ...

Paul took pride in his son Jake’s report card and athletic performance. He told others how he adored his son and loved playing basketball with him on their garage hoop. Returning from grocery shopping ...

I am, I confess, a rank sentimentalist. I indulge in sentimentality. I express feelings of love and sadness in ways that anyone else would regard as foolish and excessive. I rely more on emotions than ...