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Anthony van Dyck, “Portrait Study of a Man Facing Right,” ca. 1634

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Flattery Will Get You Everywhere

By XICO GREENWALD, Special to the Sun
May 16, 2016

In Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture, the largest special exhibition ever mounted at the Frick Collection, towering portraits look very much at home on the museum’s velvet-covered walls. Van Dyck’s elegantly colored canvases in elaborately carved…

April Flowers

By Special to the Sun
April 4, 2016

“April Flowers,” a group exhibition organized by New York Sun Arts contributor Xico Greenwald, opens today at the Queens College Art Center. The exhibit presents floral-themed artworks by 22 artists. “From the vegetal patterns of Islamic tile design…

Portrait of a First Lady

By XICO GREENWALD, Special to the Sun
March 15, 2016

The National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC is paying tribute to First Lady Nancy Reagan, who died March 6th at the age of 94. A painting on paper of Mrs. Reagan in a cherry-red dress by portraitist Aaron Shikler has been installed in the museum’s…

NATIONAL ›

Public Impatience Ignites
Major Mood for Change,
As Trump Seizes the Middle

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
May 24, 2016

The most astounding thing about this year of political surprises in the United States is how slowly even eminent commentators have recognized the radical change in national political opinion. Essentially, 75% to 80% of the Republicans and…

Just in Time for November,
A Brilliant Book Dissects
Our Fractured Republic

By IRA STOLL, Special to the Sun
May 23, 2016

Yuval Levin, who was an aide to Newt Gingrich and to George W. Bush, is one of the most prominent intellectuals on the center-right, and his new book, “The Fractured Republic: Renewing America’s Social Contract in the Age of Individualism,” is…

Democrats Fear Repeat
Of Chicago in 1968
— And for Good Reason

By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post
May 19, 2016

The Democratic warhorse Dianne Feinstein is warning that Bernie Sanders’ campaign against Hillary Clinton could turn the party’s convention in Philadelphia into the kind of disaster that erupted in Chicago in 1968. “It worries me a great deal,”…

TOP STORIES

Clean Up Squad

Editorial of The New York Sun
May 29, 2016

As Memorial Day approaches, one of the questions is who will clean up the Vietnam wall at Venice, California. It was defaced the other day, CBS News reports (Drudge had the story up immediately). “An awful sight on this Memorial Day weekend” is how it…

Hillary Assails Trump
For Business Acumen
In Crisis Clintons Created

By LAWRENCE KUDLOW and STEPHEN MOORE, Special to the Sun
May 28, 2016

We are going to disclose the grand secret to getting rich by investing. It's a simple formula that has worked for Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn, and all the greatest investment gurus over the years. Ready? Buy low, sell high. It turns out that Donald…

Thinking of Truman

Editorial of The New York Sun
May 26, 2016

One day in April of 1945, Vice President Harry Truman was summoned to the White House, where he was immediately ushered into the First Lady’s private study. “Harry,” Eleanor Roosevelt said. “The President is dead.” Truman couldn’t speak for a few…

Democrats’ Drift on Israel
Emerges as Sanders Taps
Writers of Party Platform

By SETH LIPSKY, Special to the Sun
May 26, 2016

What a hoopla has arisen over the fact that the first Jewish candidate to get to the homestretch of a Democratic presidential primary is making it his business to move the party formally away from its support of Israel. At least to the degree that…

Hysteria Over Israel

Editorial of The New York Sun
May 24, 2016

The hysteria over Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to bring in as defense minister Avigdor Lieberman tells more about the world’s attitude toward Israel than Israel’s toward . . . well, anyone. The Times issued an editorial declaring that the…

EDITORIALS ›

A New Idea for the Fed

Editorial of The New York Sun
May 23, 2016

The idea that the Federal Reserve is talking too much is now being advanced by no less a source than the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Wall Street Journal reports the other day in a story brought to our attention by the editor of the Interest…

Big Win for the Little Sisters?

Editorial of The New York Sun
May 16, 2016

“Big Win for Little Sisters” is the headline on the cable from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. The not-for-profit law firm is referring to the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court to return to the lower courts the Little Sisters’ plea to…

The Shelter of Federalism

Editorial of The New York Sun
May 15, 2016

President Obama seems to be hanging back from an outright threat to cut off federal funding for states that fail to bow to the government edict in respect of transgender pupils and school bathrooms. His administration comes close to such a threat…

FOREIGN ›

What Obama Fails To Get
On Communism, Vietnam:
Liberty’s Link to Prosperity

By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post
May 23, 2016

President Obama, standing in front of the American and Communist flags, announced in Hanoi this week that he’s ending the embargo that has for 50 years blocked US arms sales to Vietnam. The move, he said, would end a “lingering vestige of the Cold War…

‘Whither Britain?’ Emerges
As the Salient Question
In Referendum on Brexit

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
May 23, 2016

Canadians should pay some attention to the tense and fierce campaign underway in the United Kingdom toward the June 23 vote on whether the country should leave the European Union. In fact, under the European treaty, a vote to leave — what is called…

Democrats Shirk a Challenge
From One Donald Trump
On Obama Foreign Policy

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
May 18, 2016

It is a little disappointing that no one seems to have taken up Donald Trump’s challenge, in his foreign-policy address three weeks ago, to explain the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton foreign policy. The absurd and tragic alignment of the United States…


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