Unca Darrell

NOVEMBER 27 / As the 400th-year anniversary . . .

. . . of the King James Bible draws to a close, National Geographic reminds us how that holy book molded the English-speaking world:

You don't have to be a Christian to hear the power of those words -- simple in vocabulary, cosmic in scale . . .

 

SEPTEMBER 26 / Another important American intellectual . . .

. . . has endorsed Unca D's favorite book about Western Civilization, From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun, about which the Unc has written here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. 

What great American thinker has now jumped aboard the Barzun bandwagon? None other than . . .

JULY 15 / David Mamet's "American Buffalo" . . .

. . . is set in a junk shop. That's a good metaphor for the playwright's new . . .  

JUNE 29 / Essential reading on the debt

LAWRENCE B. LINDSEY gives three reasons the deficit is worse than the Obama administration admits. The first is that . . .

 

JUNE 5 / False religion

SAID JILL ABRAMSON upon her elevation to executive editor of the New York Times: 

In my house growing up the Times substituted for . . . 

NOVEMBER 18 / Parker / Mario Vargas Llosa

THE NOBEL folks were rightly ridiculed last year for giving our feckless president the Nobel Peace Prize and for giving the literature prize, yet again, to a reliable euro-lefty. This year, however, reason and decency . . . 

OCTOBER 5 / Mao, lunatic, mass murderer

A HANDFUL of Obama insiders are openly respectful of Mao Zedong. (One even described him as a favorite "political philosopher.") Even more, I suspect, lack the contempt one might reasonably expect decent people to exhibit toward so vile a human being. Now comes a new account of Mao's crowning achievement, the Great Leap Forward.

OCTOBER 3 / Mencken: proto-Clever Person

PUBLISHED in six series between 1919 and 1927, H.L. Mencken's Prejudices is an extended Bronx cheer from the smarty-boots side of the culture war and the first full-bore expression of the animus of East Coast intellectuals toward . . .

SEPTEMBER 27 / You want a conversation about race?

Start with this:

AUGUST 10 / Laura Ingraham says . . .

. . . the reason President Obama would not personally accept the letter from Governor Rick Perry -- the governor had to deliver it to an aide instead -- is that the letter wasn't a book and Mr. Perry was not . . .