Education
What’s a college degree worth anyway?
One positive trend in America’s culture is the declining value of higher education among young adults. Perhaps they’ve looked at the price tag of a college degree…
April 11, 2023
Beltway Confidential
The failing petrodollar
A nation needs a foreign policy for four reasons. The first is security. The second is that every other nation already has a foreign policy: If you…
Beltway Confidential
Doesn’t a transgender sports bra model defeat the purpose?
In addition to sponsorships from Bud Light, Tampax, Charlotte Tilbury, MAC Cosmetics, Mugler, and Kate Spade, transgender TikTok personality Dylan Mulvaney just nabbed a new patronage from…
Beltway Confidential
A retrospective of Hollywood’s most famous child sex abuse victim
The most harrowing part of Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields is not Laura Linney sharing how she and her childhood friend had to hide in Brooke’s Manhattan home…
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Beltway Confidential
[Redacted] and gentlemen
Vito Perrone was almost all set to become superintendent of Easthampton Public Schools in Massachusetts. He was going to take a small pay cut, but that was…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Paint is an unhappy little accident
Sometimes I think the health of the nation should not be judged by the strength of voter turnout or the willingness to do jury duty but by…
Foreign Policy
A NATO success story
President Joe Biden has routinely defended his decisions to withhold certain economic sanctions against Russia, and to withhold sending categories of weapons to Ukraine, out of his…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Ladies of the flies
Most people who have heard of the 1972 Andean disaster, in which a plane of Uruguayan rugby players and their supporters crashed into a frozen mountain, know…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Illuminating the history of libertarianism
Libertarianism has always been an eccentric ideology. It has not always been an embarrassing one. In the not-too-distant past, to call oneself a libertarian might bring to…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
The Senate’s new Dr. No
With a 51-49 majority, Senate Democrats have the raw numbers to push through President Joe Biden’s nominees. But a pair of high-profile recent picks have failed, due…