Nic Rowan

1 week ago | theamericanconservative.com | Nic Rowan

Politics Joe Biden, Rex Nemorensis For how much longer will the former president be king of the wood? Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Not long before the presidential election, I wrote a column in these pages characterizing Joe Biden as a “temporary king” in the tradition of J.G. Frazer’s Golden Bough.

2 weeks ago | enjoyer.com | Nic Rowan

The Lansing Elephant Incident is not especially famous, but it is one of the more bizarre episodes of mass violence in Michigan history. To this day, it remains inexplicable. The trouble began on a cool September night in 1963. The circus was in town and had pitched its tents at the Logan Square shopping center. The crowd was rowdy. When the 12-year-old Indian elephant, Little Rajjee, came into the ring, onlookers antagonized it fiercely.

3 weeks ago | theamericanconservative.com | Nic Rowan

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... A few months ago, President Donald Trump made passing reference in a long address before Congress to Lesotho—“a country nobody has ever heard of.” His remark stuck in my mind, not just because I have heard of Lesotho, but because I have been there. Well, sort of. I have never actually traveled to the landlocked country completely encircled by South Africa and recognized as a sovereign state by the United States since 1966.

1 month ago | theamericanconservative.com | Nic Rowan

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Let it never be said again that Washington, DC is a city without any native culture. The fact that its professional football team, against all odds, is at last returning to the site of RFK Memorial Stadium puts that myth to rest. The Commanders may have shed their true name, but they have regained their old city. That the team is returning from the suburbs at all is incredible. The trend runs almost exclusively in the other direction.

1 month ago | theamericanconservative.com | Nic Rowan

Culture One Half-Tipsy Yank with a Typewriter F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby at 100. Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Shirley Hazzard once observed that at a certain age memory protects one from the burden of experience. A vivid scene, with the interval of several decades, becomes little more than a word, a gesture, perhaps the way the light fell on a certain afternoon long ago.