Magazine - Life & Arts
Creature comforts
Season one of All Creatures Great and Small, a remake of a 1978 series of the same name, aired last year on the United Kingdom’s Channel 5…
February 9, 2021
Magazine - Features
Raising hell in Arizona
For decades, Arizona was the reddest of red states. From the crimson cliffs of Sedona to its fiery desert sunsets, this rugged terrain bred Barry Goldwater, the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Jacques Ellul’s technological nightmare
Jacque Ellul’s The Technological Society, originally published in 1954, has become a footnote to one of the stranger events in U.S. history. A terrorist known as the…
Magazine - Your Land
Corona Fried Chicken
Poor Abraham Clark must be rolling over in his grave, considering the goings-on in the New Jersey township named in his honor. Clark was a Revolutionary War…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Czar’
The designation of officials in the United States as “czars” has a long history — and not always a glorious one. Former President Barack Obama appointed a…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Biden hopes to close Gitmo, but where does he send the bad guys?
President Biden, similar to former President Barack Obama 12 years ago, is hoping to close the military prison for terror suspects and enemy combatants at the United…
Healthcare
COVID ICU nurse among the majority of fellow staff who have endured the disease
Hunter Spencer had just wrapped up five consecutive shifts in an intensive care unit repurposed for COVID-19 patients when he began feeling more worn out than usual.…
Magazine - Your Land
Mobile’s immobile Mardi Gras
Not even a pandemic can contain the whimsically celebratory spirit of Mardi Gras. In Mobile, Alabama, where Mardi Gras in North America was born, and in New…
Energy and Environment
West Virginia's attorney general prepares for battle with Biden over climate mandates
Patrick Morrisey, West Virginia’s Republican attorney general, thinks he has a pretty good track record so far in knocking down greenhouse gas mandates in court. The last…
Magazine - Obituary
Hal Holbrook, 1925-2021
Many of the finest actors are known for their distinctive speech patterns — think of the purr of Cary Grant or the aw-shucks stops and starts of…