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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Give Me the Antidote!

The antidote to tedious, soul-savaging "literary fiction," I mean. Jewcy readers with long memories may…

Then Again, Maybe You Shouldn’t

Perhaps I jumped the gun when I said that everyone ought to have children. I…

April Is the Smokiest Month

As Ogden Nash once asked: "Spring is sprung, the grass is ris, I wonder where…

Born Again

I've wondered since its release last September when somebody would get around to explaining how…

Your Friends and Neighbors

Surely it isn't lost on Dinesh D'Souza, author of The Enemy At Home: The Cultural…

Gardening in the Ruins

Do the Powers That Be know something we don't? Everywhere you look, defenses are being…

Watching the Detectives

Right now I'm reading Jonathan Raban's new novel Surveillance and wishing to God I was…

Race for the Nadir

I've never been able to understand the people who despise Ralph Nader for "handing" Bush…