After the Republicans held their lively first debate, you heard people saying what they always say nowadays — that our media-driven political discourse has become shallow and petty, even clownish.

For better or for worse, we’ll never again see television quite like that documented in the compelling “Best of Enemies,” which returns us to the summer of 1968 and the historic series of televised ...

William F. Buckley’s son Chris has a good column on the The New Republic reflecting on the death of author Gore Vidal, who had a long-running hatred of the elder Buckley. Vidal’s enmity dates back an ...

In the Sunday afternoons of my adolescence, when there was no football to watch or much else to see on TV, our household viewing typically turned to “Firing Line,” the public television talk show ...

In case the Christmas spirit deluded you into thinking that love and reconciliation had conquered the media world, the next issues of the National Review and Esquire will confirm that old grudges die ...

Gore Vidal (1925-2012) is one of those rare but regularly appearing types on the U.S. literary landscape who tried to make a wholesome contribution to the life of the nation, but having a classicist's ...

Try this short quiz on writers who had very public spats with each other. By J. D. Biersdorfer On the higher slopes of Mount Olympus, blurbs are a way by which the gods speak to one another in code, ...

The sound bite outrages of a Marjorie Taylor Greene are well known, as she is an elected member of Congress. And that includes Greene wearing a Trump MAGA hat to President Biden’s State of the Union ...