Monthly Archives: October 2025

New Kid In Town

October 30, 2025 – 10:04 pm

If you, like most people (or, at least, like most people who think about things a bit, and often need to look things up), have found yourself using Wikipedia on a regular basis, you’ll have noticed that while it’s very good as a reference for uncontroversial topics, it is consistently left-biased wherever the subject matter […]

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Coda

October 28, 2025 – 8:01 pm

I learned today that the music world has just lost two of its greatest: bass guitarist Anthony Jackson, and drummer Jack DeJohnette. I found out about Anthony first, and then about Jack when I wrote to my dear friend Steve Khan to express my sorrow about Anthony. Both were truly towering figures. I was fortunate […]

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Collision Course

October 28, 2025 – 12:58 pm

An interesting game is afoot. On November 1st, if news reports are to be believed, various categories of Federal welfare, such as SNAP benefits, are due to be suspended as a result of the government shutdown. What will happen next? If the past is any guide, we should expect a rapid breakdown of order wherever […]

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If “The Future Is Female”, We’re Doomed

October 17, 2025 – 8:04 pm

Making the rounds today is an outstanding article by Helen Andrews, in which she argues what many of us (particularly in NRx) have been saying for long years now – that the feminization of our institutions (and particularly of our legal system) is a mortal threat to civilization — and that if we hope to […]

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Ace Frehley, 1951-2025

October 16, 2025 – 7:43 pm

I was surprised and saddened today to learn that the founding Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley has died, apparently from injuries he sustained in a fall in his studio. I got to know Ace when he came to Power Station back in the early 80s to work on a demo project with my boss and mentor […]

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Back Again

October 16, 2025 – 7:17 pm

Sorry (as always lately, it seems) for things being so quiet here. No sooner had we got back from our trip to the UK than I had to prepare for the annual Shoal Survivors lollapalooza, which happened this past weekend in Sturbridge, MA, and which, as usual, involved three nights of performances of demanding material […]

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Back

October 6, 2025 – 3:45 pm

We’ve returned from our trip to Britain. We got around quite a bit — three nights in London, then a train to Edinburgh (where my mum grew up), where we spent another three nights. Then we rented a car and drove off to the Lake District, a stunningly beautiful area we’d never visited. After two […]

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