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The fix was apparently already in for uncompromising-advocate-for-women Susan Collins, signing off on Kavanaugh before Anthony Kennedy and Donald Trump had announced their selection. Then we were treated to the spectacle of many-times-around-the-block Sen. Collins suddenly getting all kick-up-her-heels giddy … Continue reading →

Why is it that Joe Scarborough is the one hammering the Democrats for capitulating again and again to McConnell’s hijacking of the judicial selection process? “I do not understand what these Democrats are thinking. . . I don’t understand their lack … Continue reading →

Democrats must declare from the get-go that the Kavanaugh “confirmation hearings” are a complete and utter sham. Before they question him about his perjury in 2006, his totalitarian views on executive immunitiy, his opinions on torture expressed to the Bush … Continue reading →

At New York City Ballet next week: Mimi Paul coaches Emeralds. Patricia McBride and Edward Villella coach Rubies.

A friend writes in: “A dear friend, I was told, listened obsessively to a recording of Listzomania before his suicide. During the interwar years in Europe, playing Das Lied vom traurigen Sonntag, the Hungarian ‘Szomorú Vasárnap’ recorded by the Rezs? … Continue reading →

Kavanaugh’s appointment is being driven by criminal conspiracy, and if the White House manages to install Kavanaugh on the Siupreme Court, the court’s legitimacy must be declared vacated.

the Supreme Court conclusively loses its legitimacy, and frankly, should be kept at arm’s length. When great American institutions are defaced to this degree, it’s time to reform them in the long term, but time to isolate them in the … Continue reading →

From the Preface to Gwen Raverat’s Period Piece: A Victorian Childhood: “This is a circular book. It does not begin at the beginning and go on to the end; it is all going on at the same time, sticking out … Continue reading →

Two years after the fact, Sen. Schatz said that the Democrats should have shut down the Senate when McConnell mugged the Constitution and torpedoed Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination. Why are the Dems not planning to do the same thing … Continue reading →

The President’s go-strategy is projection; we are correct to assume that every accusation he makes against anyone betrays his own intentions and behavior.