Stefan Beck

A writer living in southern Connecticut, Stefan Beck has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Sun, The Weekly Standard, The New Criterion, and other publications. He also writes a food blog, The Poor Mouth.

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The New Old Europe

Several days ago I came across this post on the Economist’s “Certain ideas of Europe”…

Altneuland Alaska: Amusing Ourselves to Death

It’s always struck me as odd that even history’s most odious mass-murdering dictators now and…

Who Is John Moyse?

Via Ross Douthat: Leave it to the Derb to go, uh, sort of overboard and…

Paved With Good Intentions

Oprah's inexplicable leap from The Secret to Cormac McCarthy's The Road has got this writer…

Lawmakers Gone Wild

The Washington Post is correct to say that "Ms. Pelosi's attempt to establish a shadow…

Fruity Pebbles

On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan's new short book about one couple's wedding night, is getting…

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Reading about the EU's proposed "non-emotive lexicon for discussing radicalisation"—that is, "list of weasel words…

The Banality of the Boot

Speaking of crime fiction, it seems that it's best when it doesn't imitate crime fact.…