Columnists
Abominable though TikTok is, we shouldn’t ban it
Here are three things that are simultaneously true. One, there is no more serious threat to freedom in the world than the present Chinese regime. Two, TikTok…
April 16, 2024
Against the reparations racket: This progressive scheme compels us to make a false confession about our nation
Business
How bitcoin mining could help electrical infrastructure in Africa
While one might not associate bitcoin mining with sustainable development in Africa, some are predicting that the industry will help people across the continent. Africa is the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Leaving the loops open
A few weeks ago, I started watching the multipart science fiction show 3 Body Problem on Netflix. It’s an absorbing and original story about a future invasion…
Education
The war on error: A new project seeks to root out fraud in academia
Malte Elson, a psychologist at the University of Bern, is hoping to chip away at some of the seemingly widespread problem of incorrect or falsified research that…
Magazine
Biden’s purchasing power problem
Democrats and liberal defenders of President Joe Biden have been at pains to tout the economic recovery the nation has enjoyed under his tenure. Nobody has been…
Magazine - Life & Arts
History isn’t what you make of it
Over the past decade or so, a notable trend among American historians, particularly those prioritizing social justice in their research, has been to frame the unsavory facets…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Netflix nails Tom Ripley
Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was the author largely of books ubiquitously described as psychological thrillers, but the adjective is doing much more work than it usually does in…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A medicinal dose of ‘toxic masculinity’
When asked to rank different forms of popular entertainment, modern culture critics might put professional wrestling somewhere between amateur pornography and dogfighting. Enjoyment of this grand tradition…
Entertainment
Civil War: Not what it says on the tin
Alex Garland’s Civil War isn’t the movie you might expect from its trailers, which portray the film as an action blockbuster set amid an apocalyptic near-future conflict…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The many tributaries of the river of Chinese food
The journey begins with sweet-and-sour pork balls. A staple of Chinese take-away restaurants in 1970s England, these were school-age Fuchsia Dunlop’s introduction to the cuisine that would…