Columnists
The seduction of collective guilt
Do nations or other groups have collective liabilities? These days, the issue usually arises in racial terms. Do white people owe some kind of inherited debt to…
August 10, 2021
Business
UPS pushes for changes to Postal Service reform bill
As Congress deliberates on a bill to put the United States Postal Service on a better financial footing, competitor UPS is lobbying furiously to make things more…
Magazine - Your Land
San Francisco’s expensive trash problem
The trash cans in San Francisco might be worth more than your car. To fight the city’s growing garbage problem, San Francisco officials are considering investing in…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Anthony Bourdain’s appetites
When Anthony Bourdain committed suicide in 2018, the news was met with shock, sadness, and a kind of existential unease. A chef whose memoir of restaurant life…
Magazine - Features
Murkowski’s murky future
The 2022 Alaska Senate race poses a host of intriguing questions. Will Democrats nominate their 2020 runner-up Al Gross again? What effect will the state’s new voting…
Beltway Confidential
Biden’s blithely unconstitutional government
When Vice President Al Gore was caught soliciting campaign donations from the White House, he excused himself by repeating one of the slipperiest phrases in the dictionary…
Magazine - Your Land
Don’t you miss pandemic travel?
For those of us brave enough to venture outside our homes during the coronavirus pandemic, there was an unexpected pleasure: Traveling, though technically restricted, had never been…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Hunter Biden, exhibitionist
In times as strange as these, it will not come as a surprise that Downtime columnist Eric Felten happened across a news clipping from sometime next month…
Magazine - Obituary
Carl Levin, 1934-2021
The Golden Age of the Senate, when personal integrity and partisan harmony reigned, seems always to be hovering somewhere near the edge of living memory. The death…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Attack’
Much of the energy in liberal politics lately has gone into a campaign to change the names we give things. In the summer of 2020, I covered…