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,” 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…
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…
The presidential election may hinge on the meaning of two words: “you’re fired.” Democrats are trying to turn Donald Trump’s line from “The Apprentice” against him. Campaigning earlier this month in Las Vegas, Hillary Clinton said, “You have got to…
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
August 6, 2016
Did Hillary Clinton actually propose raising middle-income taxes in a recent speech? The audio suggests she said “we are going to raise taxes on the middle class,” although the prepared remarks indicate she meant “we aren’t.” Well, these things happen…
By BETSY McCAUGHEY, Special to the Sun
August 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton and the press are trying to goad Donald Trump into releasing his tax returns, suggesting he’s unwilling to pay his “fair share.” Even a few of Trump’s fellow Republicans are piling on. Their premise: Paying the IRS more than you…
When the senior senator from New York, Charles Schumer, and the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, are on the same side of an issue in Washington, it’s worth taking a moment to figure out what is going on. Mr. Schumer, a…
The idea that Hillary Clinton would serve as a champion of religious freedom is being met with skepticism in the pages of the National Review. It picks up on an op-ed piece the Democratic nominee herself wrote for the Deseret News, asserting that she’s been “fighting to defend religious freedom for years.” She boasts of her work overseas, but the author of the National Review piece, Alexandra DeSanctis, reckons that because Mrs. Clinton has “made no effort to defend religious freedom here in the U.S.” her claim “rings hollow.”
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
August 13, 2016
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, when in fact the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That definition works for economic insanity, too. Over the past seven-and-a-half years, President Obama has…
The best column yet on Donald Trump is by the economist Judy Shelton in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal. The heroine of honest money acknowledges the stigma that attaches among conservatives today to “any kind of global economic initiative.” Yet by insisting that America label China a currency manipulator, she argues, Mr. Trump may be “laying the groundwork for a significant breakthrough in international monetary relations” — one that could eventually “restore free trade as a vital component of economic growth.”
By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post
August 10, 2016
What are liberals going to say for themselves if Donald Trump gets assassinated? That’s a question worth pondering as a new effort is under way to delegitimize The Donald in the wake of his remarks on the Second Amendment. Leftists are accusing Mr…
It seems to be the view of the Obama administration that if Israel wants America to help the Jewish state maintain its qualitative military edge, Jerusalem had best shut up in respect of Munich. That has emerged in the uproar over President Obama’s…
Donald Trump’s big economic speech Monday at Detroit offers a chance to get past the dodge that this race is about merely the character of the candidates and to address what William Galston of the Wall Street Journal calls the “real debate under the mud.” Both candidates are running a protectionist campaign, but on taxes, spending, and monetary policy, Mr. Trump has hinted at policies that hold far more promise for change on jobs and growth.
‘It’s now been well over a year since the agreement with Iran to stop its nuclear program was signed, and by all accounts it has worked exactly the way we said it was going to work. You’ll recall that there were all these horror stories about how Iran…
Until next week when the Republican convention will be over, I will maintain my self-imposed gag on substantive comments about the presidential race. But I would like to make an interim comment on the press. Peggy Noonan is correct, as usual, that the…
Either the British have twisted themselves politically into confusion worthy of resolution by Alexander the Great’s slicing of the Gordian Knot, or they are about to demonstrate more than ever before their talent at muddling through. As most readers…
It must be the balmy summer weather that makes me wonder if most people except me are losing their minds, and if our leaders, the beneficiaries and personification of the great democratic systems for which previous generations proverbially fought and…
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