Oasis released a live album that consisted entirely of songs from a Wembley show, except for a version of Helter Skelter they performed the night I saw them at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee. It said so right in the CD liner notes! When I spent a year in England, I was very

Frank Meyer's advancement of fusionism had a lasting impact on the future of the conservative movement. Christopher J. Scalia reviews Daniel J. Flynn’s The Man Who Invented Conservatism for The Wall Street Journal: wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

“@CJScalia, now a senior fellow @aei, is a former English professor, & he has a deep & abiding love for literature as well as an evangelical streak that compels him to spread the joy.” @TodLindberg, Commentary Magazine commentary.org/articles/tod-l…

If it’s not in a midwestern beer hall with music from A Good Band Is Hard to Find, is it even a book launch?

First Mass for St Ignatius students here in Cleveland. Dozens of young men in khakis and blazers lining up outside the cathedral. Police cars with lights on, police directing traffic, police guarding doors.

My latest op-ed in the Wall Street Journal (The Wall Street Journal): "Stanford’s Graduate Student Union Tries to Stifle Dissent" wsj.com/opinion/stanfo…

I wrote about Oasis arriving stateside for The Dispatch: "The sad fact is that Oasis is old. And their tour confirms what I and other members of Generation X have long feared: We are now what boomers were when we were kids." Also, the headline is perfect. Link in reply.

Manfred and MLB do not have the authority to put Clemens in the Hall. That’s up to ~400 members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, and they’ve decided he doesn’t deserve it. The situation with Rose was different: Rose was banned from baseball, and just before he

Today’s guests: Senator Ted Cruz, Bret Baier, John Ashbrook of Ruthless Podcast (and Bengals “fan”), David M. Drucker, @lileks and Christopher J. Scalia, whose terrific new book is “13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven’t Read”): amazon.com/Novels-Conserv…

Malcom Gladwell says he is “ashamed” of having said in a previous panel discussion that trans women have a place in women’s sports. He says he was “cowed” into saying so. “Trans athletes have no place in the female category,” he says.

I still believe the highlight of Jason Bateman’s career occurred in 1987, when he appeared in a One to Grow On PSA to speak out against boomboxes on public transportation; and from the looks of it, he almost certainly delivered that message to America’s youth while stoned.