Magazine - Columnists
Diversity training is making things worse
Every new British lawmaker is required to take one obligatory course. Can you guess what it is about? How to move an amendment, maybe? Correct etiquette in…
April 20, 2021
Magazine - Editorial
The deadly side effects of unproven COVID interventions
We are fast approaching the point in the coronavirus pandemic at which the supposed cure is almost as bad as the disease. This isn’t about the Johnson…
Columnists
Trump didn’t form a populist coalition. He was the result of one
PITTSBURGH — They’re still there, planted in front of stately homes in wealthy suburban neighborhoods, on flag poles in middle-class communities, and along the front stoops of…
Magazine - Features
Gun control gone Down Under
The news cycles immediately following the murder last month of 10 people at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket by a lone gunman proceeded down familiar, well-worn paths. So…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Born to troll
Everyone knows that social media make us more divided. Online, able to choose which views we encounter, we separate into tribes and become more extreme. Democrats know…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A prairie hat companion
Why should it be so difficult to find a Frank Lloyd Wright hat? Wright’s pork pie hat has a very shallow crown. Its brim is either wide…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The myths of decolonization
“Decolonization” has become a keyword on campuses. It refers to symbolic changes that are supposed to promote diversity and eliminate vestiges of white supremacy. Student- and scholar-activists,…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The One is absurd, implausible, and very entertaining
Netflix’s new science-fiction series The One is tonally incongruous, confusingly edited, and based on a technological conceit so flimsy that a sidelong glance could shatter it like…
Magazine - Your Land
Texas community passes the hat for rabbits
From Texas, here’s a tale not of cops and robbers, but of cops and rabbits. The story began with tragedy. On March 26, Texas state trooper Chad…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Ira’
Recently, I committed a cultural faux pas. I had watched the excellent documentary about the former head of the American Civil Liberties Union, Ira Glasser, called Mighty…