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THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (David Gornoski) - The Cowboy Diplomacy of Dory Funk Jr.

Funk was one of a kind—a wrestling champion who built bridges between America and postwar Japan. The post The Cowboy Diplomacy of Dory Funk Jr. appeared first on The American Conservative .

Culture The Cowboy Diplomacy of Dory Funk Jr. Funk was one of a kind—a wrestling champion who built bridges between America and postwar Japan. Photo by WWE/WWE via Getty Images Dory Funk Jr.—pro wrestling champion, trainer, and international icon—died earlier this month at 85. Although less famous here, perhaps, than some of his colleagues, Funk’s life provided an object lesson in the power of sport and spectacle to win hearts around the world. And for those who knew him personally, as I did, the news of his passing landed with the sudden finality of one of his famous spinning toe holds. He was the last of a…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - Something Doesn’t Look Right

What emergency could possibly justify omnipresent bureaucratic hectoring? The post Something Doesn’t Look Right appeared first on The American Conservative .

Takimag Something Doesn’t Look Right What emergency could possibly justify omnipresent bureaucratic hectoring? TakiMag Photo by Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images One might think that a severely alcoholic Stalinist could never be a good writer, let alone a fine novelist, but the case of Patrick Hamilton refutes this commonsensical opinion. His novel of an English boarding house during the war, The Slaves of Solitude, published in 1947, is a beautifully observed and completely non-ideological study of the character of the residents of just such an establishment. If one had to guess the political opinions…Open