Equity against excellence: The militant egalitarianism of today's Left is against everything we admire about Olympic athletes
The Olympics are supposed to be the ultimate showcase of human athletic achievement. But in 2024, they’ve become something else: a welter of apps, streams, and time-shifted…
Two years ago, I cast my ballot for the 10 greatest films ever made in the last installment of the celebrated Sight and Sound magazine poll. To…
The new disaster film Twisters has been described as a “stand-alone sequel” by its producers. Meaning, I guess, that it is not a sequel to 1996’s cult…
Trieste is the sort of place travel guides and writers recommend only after they’ve exhausted the possibilities of better-known destinations. Run out of things to say about…
A former assistant football coach at a Lutheran school, Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) surely knows the Gospels. In Matthew 7:12, Jesus says, “So in everything, do unto…
The pages of history fetishize great figures, but what we call “greatness” is often the correction of generational dereliction, when a few people, touched by genius or…
It has been 18 years since elite gymnastics adopted its open-ended scoring system, an adaptation introduced not a moment too soon, as it would be rather boring…
Psychologists and researchers say an optimistic outlook can lead to better physical and mental health. For instance, optimism is associated with lower levels of depression and anxiety.…
When the Harry Potter series was becoming popular in the early 2000s, an impassioned debate arose among parents and teachers as to whether it was good that…
