Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a fool.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility