Max Bloom is a writer who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2016, covering topics ranging from presidential politics and executive power to cultural commentary and international affairs such as the Brexit referendum. His pieces for the magazine reflected a mix of political analysis and arts criticism.
It was the summer of 1832, and the two great Whig senators, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, had come across a brilliant plan to embarrass and damage the Democratic president, Andrew Jackson, just before the election. The Second Bank of the United States, hated by agrarians and Jacksonians, but much…
The Second City comic team on display at the Kennedy Center for The Second City's Almost Accurate Guide to America is a good one. Ryan Asher, Marla Ceceres, Tyler Davis, Sayjal Joshi, Andrew Knox, and Ross Taylor are all excellent comic actors, with impeccable timing, quick wits, and charming stage…
In Celebration of Paul Mellon, a showcase of the great philanthropist's "most treasured works on paper," is a fine collection of art by the great American, English, and French masters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There isn't much linking the pieces at this exhibition at the National…
With a presidential election four months away and with two cases of executive discretion just out of the news, it may be a good time to reflect on the nature of presidential power.
The past few days have been a period of crisis for both pro-Europe Tory and Labour leaders in the United Kingdom in the run-up to the June 23 referendum on Britain's exit from the European Union: The British electorate looks increasingly willing to cast off EU membership. Just this past week, six…