Author Archives: Greg Hlatky

Another old Red bites the dust: Milton Wolff, the last commander of the American volunteers who fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War and the longtime commander of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, died Monday in Berkeley, … Continue reading →

The dust-up between Revolutionary Guard speedboats and U.S. naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz is worrying for what it might be a harbinger of: There is a reason American military officers express grim concern over the tactics used by … Continue reading →

The Dallas Cowboys (The Greatest Team that Absolutely Ever Was, Is, or Will Be) has lost to the New York Giants 21-17. In losing, Dallas has gone 12 years without winning a post-season game. If they went through the next … Continue reading →

It looks like the campaign of Ron Paul (or Dr. Paul his supporters insist) is now in serious trouble with the revelation that racist and homophobic columns appeared in a newsletter with his name on the banner. Who knows who … Continue reading →

The famous Cuban health care system so praised by Michael Moore can’t help a traitor: Renegade former CIA agent Philip Agee, whose naming of agency operatives helped prompt a U.S. law against exposing government spies, has died in Cuba, his … Continue reading →

Headline: “Canadians would root for Democrats: poll”

Ah, the craven self-abnegation of Columbia University’s professoriat: An academic delegation of Columbia University professors and deans of faculties plans to visit Tehran to officially apologize to Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. The delegation plans to express regret for the insulting … Continue reading →

Grace, balance, teamwork. Andreas Helgstrand and Blue Hors Matine in the Freestyle Dressage competition at the 2006 World Equestrian Games. Folks, it don’t get any better than this.

Kerry Howley has a column on the role of husbands in getting their wives elected to office, with focus on the Cattle Baroness. Now, no doubt she’s a capable senator, but, as was once said of the Fat Rich Kid, … Continue reading →

My lovely bride returns this evening from New Zealand. I am engaged in an orgy of house cleaning. Back tomorrow.

As opposed to the insubstantial jangling below, here’s Sir Colin Davis conducting the Lacrymosa from the Berlioz Requiem: Persuasive advocates like Sir Colin that expanded our knowledge of the the music of Berlioz. For the Philips label Davis recorded most … Continue reading →

The Cattle Baroness came in third last night in the Ioway caucuses, a stinging blow to her image of inevitability. Mark Steyn makes a point I’ve long held: The Clintons’ leadership of the Democratic Party was great for the Clintons, … Continue reading →

Here’s a couple of classical music’s A-listers, Artur Rubenstein and Eugene Ormandy, unsuccessfully expending their considerable efforts justfying Leith Stevens’ Piano Concerto in C minor in the movie Night Song. In a review of this film, Bosley Crowther said, “But … Continue reading →

Growing up near Philadelphia, I read the Bulletin, the afternoon newspaper; the reputation of the morning Inquirer at the time was quite low. And why shouldn’t I have? Their motto was “Nearly Everybody Reads the Bulletin.” By 1970 the Annenberg … Continue reading →

Nobel-prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman says: Taking even a cursory stock of current events, I am driven to the ultimately wise advice of my Columbia mentor, I.I. Rabi, who, in our many corridor bull sessions, urged his students to run for … Continue reading →