Magazine - Life & Arts
Thank God! It’s the National Guard
William Long graduated high school in 2011 and, like many, regrets missing the high military deployment days of the mid-2000s. He might not have served in Iraq…
April 23, 2024
The new way of war: How US enemies foster American anger, disunity, and self-doubt
Entertainment
Robert Downey Jr. can’t save The Sympathizer
HBO’s The Sympathizer enters the television lineup with two strikes against it. In the first place, the limited series’s 2015 source novel, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, was…
Entertainment
What Orwell had against pigs
Several animals emerge with no credit whatsoever from Animal Farm. Benjamin the donkey is a case-hardened pessimist, as stolidly indifferent to conditions under the new regime as…
Entertainment
Reviewed: Woody Allen’s newest film, Coup de Chance
When Woody Allen talks about the directors he seeks to emulate, imitate, or merely copy from, the names he is likely to mention are Ingmar, Federico, and…
Magazine - Life & Arts
What was virtue to the founders?
Benjamin Franklin was, as the children say these days, built different. The Pennsylvanian founding father studiously maintained a chart bearing seven columns, for each day of the…
Magazine
Deliverance walked so these ‘scholarly efforts’ could run
Yes, Herman Melville sold a lot of books before he died, but it was his Typee, an account of “life among the savages,” that captured the popular imagination,…
Justice
McConnell’s ‘force of will’ shaped the federal judiciary
The most glowing admirers and fiercest detractors of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) agree on one thing — his ability to move the federal judiciary in…
Columnists
A striking contrast on Trump trial day
A STRIKING CONTRAST ON TRUMP TRIAL DAY. Monday has been Trump Trial Day in the media, especially for those outlets openly cheering the prosecution of former President Donald…