Magazine - Life & Arts
From Teddy Roosevelt whiskey to Minnesota bourbon
Teddy Roosevelt was not one to be entirely trusted on the subject of alcohol. In the 1912 presidential contest, T.R.’s opponents spread the word he was a…
August 29, 2023
Beltway Confidential
Maybe the NBA isn’t a great employer after all
Even some of the biggest businesses in the world sometimes forget to make sure that only current, nondisgruntled employees are running their social media accounts. A former…
Business
Could Maui fires make your insurance more expensive?
As the death toll from the early August wildfires that left much of the Maui town of Lahaina in cinders continued to mount, so too did the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Why I’m obsessed with ventriloquism, and think you should be too
I still remember the first time I ever saw a ventriloquist in action. The legendary Edgar Bergen and his dummy sidekicks, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, appeared…
Magazine - Life & Arts
How to write a biography without biographical information
On the first page of Sarah Ruden’s biography of Vergil, she states the problem that any biographer of the ancient poet and author of the Aeneid faces:…
Infrastructure
The tame souls behind books arguing against cars
There are eight kittens running around my little rural property as you read this. Three of them are utterly feral, as is their mother, and I see…
Columnists
The Silicon Valley faceoff over free speech
It looks like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg won’t be having their martial arts duel in a Roman colosseum after all. This is disappointing, not just because…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Review: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett knows how to hook readers and reel them in. Her finest novels, such as her 2001 breakout Bel Canto, as well as 2016’s Commonwealth and…
Magazine - Features
Doug Burgum hopes the debate will vanquish his anonymity among the base
NORTH DAKOTA — Doug Burgum wasn’t even a household name in 2016 when he ran for governor of North Dakota, but there he was on that debate…
Healthcare
Freedom’s just another word for lonely and drunk
Chelsea Handler in a recent social media video popped open her morning bottle of champagne while sitting in a hyperbaric chamber to celebrate being child-free and tries…