Magazine - Obituary
Paul Farnes, 1918-2020
Just as the Battle of Britain was getting underway in August 1940, Winston Churchill paid tribute in the House of Commons to the fighter pilots of the…
February 18, 2020
Magazine - Your Land
Girl power
Get ready to add another site to your list of tourist to-dos in Washington, D.C. The House voted this week to build another Smithsonian Museum, this one…
Magazine - Features
The partisan politics of school choice
In one of the many made-for-TV moments that punctuated this month’s State of the Union address, President Trump admonished Congress to pass his administration’s new education reform…
Magazine - Your Land
Driving’s lost art
Parallel parking is driving’s lost art. It requires a significant amount of concentration and coordination: You must swoop into the spot with a precise arc, straighten out…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Rural Hungary’s homebrew culture
It is probably a coincidence that the invention of distilling alcohol roughly coincides with the 10th-century arrival of the Hungarians in Central Europe. Their descendants sometimes joke…
Foreign Policy
Politics or principle? Inside Trump’s Venezuela push
First came meetings with allies, including Britain’s foreign secretary and the European Union’s foreign policy chief. Then came the made-for-TV moment with President Trump introducing Juan Guaido…
Business
Trump’s critics on the economy: So wrong, so often
There’s an old saying about baseball and life that no one ever had a 1.000 batting average. It turns out, that’s not exactly true. At least when…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Return to glory
During a show business career that stretched back to the mid-1940s, Kirk Douglas could be counted upon for projecting a certain indignant intelligence on the screen. Whether…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The scholar’s work
Max Weber was the kind of genius we don’t seem to encounter anymore. Trained in law, he taught economics and helped invent sociology while dabbling in philosophy,…
Business
Robust economy might not save Trump’s reelection bid
Voters who are betting a strong economy will reelect President Trump might be in for a rude awakening. Research shows that the bond has weakened between strong…