Magazine - Your Land
Then and Now: Christmas
It was not until after the middle of the fourth century that Christendom generally celebrated the birth of Jesus with Christmas. Prior to this, the major holiday…
December 17, 2019
Economy
Sen. Pat Toomey, the GOP’s lonely free trader
Throughout the Trump administration, Sen. Pat Toomey has been a lonely voice in favor of broad free-trade policies and a sharp critic of President Trump’s restrictionist approach.…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Editors’ picks: Books of the decade
The English and Their History, by Robert Tombs. (Knopf, 2015.) Through most of his highly distinguished career as a Cambridge historian, professor Robert Tombs focused on France.…
Magazine - Columnists
Democrats’ nightmares
Democrats are experiencing their sixth nightmare of the Trump era. The first came the day Donald Trump was elected. The second began the next day as the…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
House bill targets billions of unwanted robocalls
Democrats and Republicans in Congress agree on few issues these days, but there’s a near-universal hate of spam telephone calls. The House of Representatives in early December…
Magazine - Life & Arts
New journalism’s queen of cool
The cover image of Joan Didion: The 1960s and 70s, a new anthology from the Library of America, is a photograph of a cluster of people on…
Magazine - Features
Meet the Yang Gang
NEW HAMPSHIRE — The first snowstorm of the season left the roads in New Hampshire icy enough to render the 50-plus enthusiasts attending Andrew Yang’s Keene town…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Heads will roll
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution. By Jeremy Popkin. Basic Books. The French Revolution has been a curiously unexamined subject of late, at…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The all-American Wizard of Menlo Park
The late Anglo-American writer Edmund Morris published one short book on Ludwig van Beethoven and two ambitious political biographies: a magisterial three-volume life of Theodore Roosevelt, which…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Kingdom of heaven
Christianity is an offense to reason. Or so wrote the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, approvingly, back in 1850. In his Practice in Christianity, Kierkegaard affirmed that Christianity…