Crime
Detectives and their demons
A century ago, the golden age of British detective fiction had begun to flower. Agatha Christie had written and finally published her first novel, a Hercule Poirot…
February 1, 2022
Economy
Biden’s agenda in limbo
Democrats are clinging to the hope of bipartisan breakthroughs as senators from their party block President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda in Congress. But the window for bipartisan…
Crime
Sheldon Silver, 1944-2022
Shortly before he was sentenced on federal corruption charges in 2020, Sheldon Silver, the onetime all-powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, sought to avoid incarceration.…
Magazine - Life & Arts
His side of paradise
Samuel Johnson wrote famously of the poet John Milton’s 10,000-line signature work, Paradise Lost: “None ever wished it longer than it is.” The sheer length of this…
Magazine - Your Land
Did woke NFL try to cancel Southern charm?
The National Football League’s chronic wokeness appears to be infecting college all-star games too. For decades, the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, the most prestigious of the…
Business
Eric Adams, Gotham’s unlikely savior?
It had been a long time since a Democrat had a “Sister Souljah” moment. But when Eric Adams stated last July that his main concern heading into…
Magazine - Your Land
Snow White ditches her dwarves
A lesson Hollywood has yet to learn: One can never be too woke for the woke crowd. Disney announced earlier this month that it would be filming…
Crime
Florida man: The meme and the reality
Florida Man, the cliched figment of the liberal imagination and an object of constant mockery and memeification, has long been derided by elites. The website floridaman.com catalogs…
Business
Rollout of 5G wreaks havoc with airlines
It’s being called January’s 5G debacle. A spectrum auction gave cellphone companies the ability to offer 10 times faster service speeds with new towers. Then concerns were…
Business
The extraordinary rise and fall of BlackBerry
In 2000, Michael Urlocker, a Canadian financial analyst, flew to Northern Europe to meet with the leaders of the world’s biggest cellphone companies. He carried in his…