Business
New banking regulations could sink the economy
Banking is just about the most regulated industry in America. Yet, as we saw with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and others in recent months, lenders…
August 8, 2023
Business
Due deference? The Supreme Court will scrutinize officials’ power to impose regulations
“Chevron deference” would sound to many like a snap choice about which gas station to use to fill up their car’s thirsty tank. Yet tied to the…
Magazine - Obituary
Paul Reubens, 1952-2023
Once or twice a generation, the public becomes infatuated with displays of infantilism. From the glorious childishness of Jerry Lewis to the perpetual silliness of Jim Carrey,…
Crime
Stealing trust
Here’s a life hack: If you’re always on the lookout, you can often find ways to rip off other people or take stuff that doesn’t belong to…
Columnists
Can you feel the Ken-ergy?
The battle of the blockbusters between Barbie and Oppenheimer is the last stand for traditional moviegoing. It was almost nostalgic to sit through months of trailers as the…
Columnists
Fight crime, and poverty, with civil society
Maryland’s new Democratic governor, Wes Moore, has to play to his party’s increasingly left-wing base, but he also knows that problem No. 1 in much of the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
All the generational stereotypes are wrong, except that big one
Jean Twenge’s 500-page tome, Generations, which spans from the Silent Generation, born in 1925, to Polars, born between 2013 and 2029, is exploding with insights that should…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Accommodations for dictators: New books look at Stalin’s hotel and Hitler’s brothel
Since it opened its doors in 1905, the Metropol Hotel in Moscow has witnessed seismic events in Russia’s 20th-century history. In its early years it was a…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Keeping the novel alive by reading, and arguing, well
Every piece about the state of the novel in contemporary culture must ask the infamous question, so let’s start there: Is the novel dead? The Novel, Who…
Beltway Confidential
Illinois’s botched plan to fix its law enforcement crisis
Beltway Confidential Illinois’s botched plan to fix its law enforcement crisis By Kaylee McGhee White, Restoring America Editor August 03, 2023 11:30 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email…