By XICO GREENWALD, Special to the Sun
October 11, 2016
Visitors to artist Gregory Amenoff�s current exhibit might mistake the paintings on view as the work of a nature lover. The artist is displaying small, medium and large-size landscape-based abstractions teeming with organic shapes that suggest trees…
By SETH LIPSKY, Special to the Sun
October 4, 2016
Rarely have I looked forward to a museum exhibition with quite the eagerness with which I�m anticipating a visit to �Crown of New England,� the paean to Mount Washington that opened October 1 at the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire…
By XICO GREENWALD, Special to the Sun
August 26, 2016
For museumgoers already familiar with the Rococo masterpieces of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), a special exhibition at the Frick will illuminate a little-known aspect of his oeuvre. Filling a single gallery of the Frick�s lower level, Watteau�s…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
November 26, 2016
As the days have ticked past since the U.S. election, its implications, especially for the press, have been interpreted with agonizing slowness. The polls, so inaccurate, yet uniformly revealed public disrespect for the press. Ninety per cent of…
By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post
November 24, 2016
Did anyone ever stop to ask why there�s only one day a year when we are supposed to eat yams? This tasteless tuber the color of carrots may be the least edible substance known to man. What in the world is the logic of serving yams on a day for giving…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
November 22, 2016
As there is an incessant crescendo, still gaining in volume each week, about President Obama�s �legacy,� I thought it appropriate to try to identify this legacy, which his supporters believe history will honor. I have written here and elsewhere that…
So much for what we like to call the �verbal dollar.� Ben Bernanke, who as Federal Reserve chairman made verbosity a centerpiece of American monetary policy, is now telling central bank officials to �clam up.� That�s the headline the financial site…
Where are the New Yorkers on the list of judges that Donald Trump intends to consider for the Supreme Court? It�s a diverse list, but nary a New Yorker. What are our judges, chopped liver? It is a cheerful question, asked only because it happens that…
Could America be on the brink of a restoration of true Second Amendment rights? Could even states like New York be covered by the article of the Bill of Rights that has been called the palladium of our liberty? Those are two questions in the wake of the election that has handed up Donald Trump as the next president of America and retained the Republicans in control of Congress. One of the major themes of Mr. Trump�s campaign was his call for to make the Second Amendment great again.
By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
November 28, 2016
Nothing like a president-elect widely feared as an erratic bully to trigger newfound respect on the left for the rule of law, right? Well, maybe not. The Harvard Crimson reports that the dean of Harvard College, Rakesh Khurana, �will prioritize…
By MARIA WERLAU, Special to the Sun
November 27, 2016
Finally, Fidel Castro has died. I had been waiting for this moment since I was a small child, for as long as I�ve had awareness to sense the pain and horror he represented for those around me. It would be, I always knew, one of the memorable moments…
With the Trump transition seeming almost deadlocked over the nominee for Secretary of State we are moved to ask: What about Ileana Ros-Lehtinen? The Florida Republican, long time member of the American House, is a former chairman of the Foreign…
The death of Fidel Castro, coming as it did Friday amid America�s peaceful transition of power, is a moment to reflect on nature of communism � on its inherent incompatibility with democracy. America has had 15 quadrennial elections since the…
President-elect Trump made one error in his remarkable interview with the Times � confessing, �I would love to be able to be the one that made peace with Israel and the Palestinians. I would love that � that would be such a great achievement, because…
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun
November 18, 2016
President-elect Trump is in like Flynn with America�s most enduring �special relationship.� For though his electoral victory is the cause of protests at home and unease at European capitals, �Mr. Brexit� basks in favorable reviews from the British…
As the race for secretary general of the United Nations heats up, here�s one option that as yet is only whispered in the halls: Punt. America and Russia, the top players that will decide the race among the ten remaining declared candidates in the race…
By STEPHEN MacLEAN, Special to the Sun
October 2, 2016
Britain after Brexit is wasting no time announcing to the trading world it is open for business. Minister of International Trade Liam Fox speaks of free trade with an optimism that must inspire envy in America�s market conservatives. Who can imagine…
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