Magazine - Your Land
The short-lived female military draft
Congress has finally done something right. As lawmakers prepare to vote on new defense legislation this week, they dropped a proposal that would have required women to…
December 14, 2021
Magazine - Washington Briefing
US military goes on offense against ransomware
The military, including Cyber Command, has taken action against some ransomware groups after recent attacks on American companies, according to the nation’s top cyberdefense executive. Agencies have…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Will Smith is suddenly an open book
Will Smith’s irresistible smile, irrepressible confidence, and galactic charm may have made him one of the defining movie stars of the last quarter century, but when it…
Business
Biden supply chain spin adds political kinks to policy response
According to critics, the White House’s supply chain spin is complicating the politics of an already-tangled problem for President Joe Biden. Odd throwback references to Cabbage Patch…
Finance
Trust the universe
Once, when I was an aspiring screenwriter living in Los Angeles, I went to see a movie. I got there early, bought a ticket, and wandered around…
Magazine - Features
The strange death of satire
Contra Theodor Adorno, it is mercifully untrue that the writing of poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. Nevertheless, modes of artistic expression do rise and fall as history…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘iel’
Try to imagine explaining to a 2003-era conservative who says “freedom fries” that there is an international culture war between France and the United States over arcane,…
Business
The future of Heritage
Kevin Roberts has a plan. Earlier this month, Roberts replaced Kay Coles James as the seventh president of the Heritage Foundation, the influential half-century-old conservative think tank.…
Magazine - Obituary
Bob Dole, 1923-2021
The past week has reminded Americans that we lost a giant in Sen. Robert Dole when he died early Sunday morning. His heroism in World War II,…
Crime
Knight Rider’s timely return
The classic ’80s television series Knight Rider became available to stream on Netflix on Dec. 1. For the uninitiated, the show featured a former police officer, Michael…