Magazine - Life & Arts
Tinker, tailor, soldier, cuck
John le Carre, dead last year at the ripe old age of 91, lived to see the end of the Cold War, the waning of U.S. hegemony,…
February 23, 2021
Magazine - Obituary
Rush Limbaugh, 1951-2021
Rush Limbaugh was not the first American radio personality to gain fame and fortune and exert influence by talking into a microphone. But by any measure, he…
Healthcare
Vaccination nation
On New Year’s Eve, journalist Nadav Eyal tweeted out a scene from a neighborhood in Tel Aviv: Health clinic workers giving COVID-19 vaccinations found themselves left with…
Magazine - Columnists
Mitch takes one for the team
It’s doubtful former President Donald Trump even considered responding more in sorrow than in anger to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s criticism of him. Trump stuck to…
Magazine - Features
False starts
White House deputy press secretary T.J. Ducklo recently resigned, barely a month into his new job. Ducklo had berated a Politico reporter who had questioned the status…
Crime
Netflix’s Crime Scene explores the dark side of true crime
In late-January of 2013, 21-year-old Elisa Lam of British Columbia took a solo trip to California. Her plan was to start in San Diego and work her…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Got Enlightenment?
The Enlightenment has always had, at least partially, the appearance of a marketing campaign. When the taciturn Prussian Immanuel Kant ventured to define the Enlightenment in the…
Beltway Confidential
Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion conjuring trick
Stage sets are sometimes moved into place in full view of theatergoers. On other occasions, such mechanics are meant to go unnoticed, but the audience can still…
Education
1776 truth vs 1619 falsehoods
One of the clearest signs that we are in a debate over the central meaning of our country, and therefore of our rights and of us, is…
Healthcare
Anti-abortion movement rallies against Biden pick to lead HHS
Anti-abortion advocates are rallying against President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. “Becerra has been on the…