An exhibition opened yesterday at The Frick Collection that studies Pierre-Auguste Renoir's uses of the full-length portrait format - all nine of them. "This is the first comprehensive study of the artist's engagement with the full-length format,"…
The Yale Center for British Art has set out to rehabilitate the reputation of Johann Zoffany, a German expatriate who became a member of the Royal Academy by appointment of King George III. One might argue that he isn’t better-known for fair reasons…
Bill Scott’s paintings have an atmosphere of ease, but consideration and reconsideration of beautiful form churn within them. Two or Three Nudes in a Landscape (2010) summarizes Scott’s endeavor, its delightful title alluding to an image that somehow…
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
February 3, 2012
That great phrase was coined by the late Jack Kemp, who believed that growth and opportunity for all is the answer to poverty. Kemp believed it was the answer to all things economic. And he was right. The best anti-poverty program is the one that…
By LEWIS LEHRMAN, Special to the Sun
January 29, 2012
At a recent Presidential debate, the Republican candidates discussed a new Gold Commission much like the one to which President Reagan appointed Ron Paul and me in 1981. When asked, Jim Grant and I agreed to serve as co-chairmen of a new gold…
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun
February 8, 2012
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. A comprehensive Pew Forum study last year found that Christians are persecuted in 131 countries containing 70% of the world’s population, out of 197 countries…
America is in danger “of becoming something of a legal backwater,” a justice of the High Court of Australia, Michael Kirby, is quoted this week as telling the New York Times. His comment is in a scoop that runs under the headline “‘We the People’…
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun
February 7, 2012
For one time in a row the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, got the story right. No, it wasn’t King Dollar. It was taxes. Testifying before members of the Senate Budget Committee today, Mr. Bernanke referred to the scheduled repeal of the Bush…
That’s an incredible video of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg circulating on the World Wide Web. There is a sitting associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, speaking on Al-Hayat TV in an Egypt that is about to begin writing the foundational law for its attempt at democracy, saying “I would not look to the U.S. constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.” Instead she suggests she might look at the constitution of South Africa.
The feature that stands out for us in the controversy over Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the role of Mayor Bloomberg. When Komen, the largest breast cancer charity, disclosed that it intended to approve no new grants to Planned Parenthood, Mr…
History is filled with examples of law enforcement and intelligence officials overreaching during moments of perceived national security crisis. In the 1970s, the Church Committe investigated both the F.B.I. and C.I.A. for spying on the political…
That is some post Sarah Palin put up on her Facebook page in advance of the Republican primary Tuesday at Florida. She is accusing the GOP establishment of employing the “tactics of the Left.” She means that faction within the party that “fought…
Even before polls opened in Florida’s Republican primary, some pundits were trying to explain a potential Newt Gingrich loss there by saying he’d been outspent. Mike Allen’s influential Politico Playbook daily morning email reported Monday, “Newt…
By R. EMMETT TYRRELL, Jr., Special to the Sun
January 25, 2012
How long have I been saying it? At least for 15 years, but in private I have been aware of it longer. Newt Gingrich is conservatism’s Bill Clinton, but without the charm. He has acquired wit but he has all the charm of barbed wire. Newt and Bill are…
