Lyndon Johnson was one of the larger than life figures from the 1960s, a man with a super- sized ego and ambitions and appetites to match. He was, as both allies and adversaries agreed, a cunning ...

A little more than a century ago, Sherwood Anderson’s “Winesburg, Ohio” introduced a new kind of American novel: one composed of short stories that share a setting and that elevate, one by one, ...

Yesterday, James Piereson weighed in on Lyndon Johnson and liberal sentimentality–a huge topic, that. It would take a different sort of Robert Caro, one attuned to the political uses of mendacity, ...

Paul took pride in his son Jake’s report card and athletic performance. He told others how he adored his son and loved playing basketball with him on their garage hoop. Returning from grocery shopping ...

Grief brings on a great many sentimental feelings. It comes with nostalgia and the need for comfort. Sentimentality and nostalgia are not exactly the same, but somehow they seem closely related. I ...

I am, I confess, a rank sentimentalist. I indulge in sentimentality. I express feelings of love and sadness in ways that anyone else would regard as foolish and excessive. I rely more on emotions than ...

THE RESULTS OF FAKE NICENESS: "Mass illegitimacy, the decline of the indigenous birthrate, and the emergency of gang culture among the fatherless youth" ...