Magazine - Life & Arts
Decline and fall
It’s true that a lot of us are bored and exhausted. Last week, I asked my students, undergrads in a top-10 business school, why money is good…
February 25, 2020
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Troop’
John McWhorter is the furthest thing from the language police as you can get among the commentariat. He is an astute analyst who means what he says…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Rabbit, run
The screen artist who wishes to recreate 19th-century England must begin by determining his visual tone. Too gritty, and he will have gone the way of Taboo,…
Business
Quick fix for multiemployer pensions unlikely on Capitol Hill
Congress is unlikely to fix the country’s formidable multiemployer pension crisis before the 2020 elections, even though many of the plans face insolvency in the not-too-distant future.…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The return of the British gangster film
The Gentlemen opens with a performance. Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey), in impeccable English tailoring, places a quintessentially English order of a pint and a pickled egg at…
Columnists
Bernie Sanders would turn quality healthcare into a privilege for very few
Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders is fond of saying that he wants to make sure that “healthcare is a right of all people, not just a privilege.” But…
Beltway Confidential
Bill Barr, black sheep, doesn’t suffer fools
I was once at a dinner attended by Attorney General William Barr. A conservative journalist who was also there pressed him in a voice heavy with frustration…
Columnists
Who’s complaining about investigations now?
Attorney General William Barr is looking into the murky origins of the politically charged Justice Department investigations that have roiled American public life for the last three…