Quentin Tarantino needs no introduction. Everyone knows about Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, and all the rest. What everyone might not know is that Tarantino has…
The high oil prices that roiled the U.S. economy in 2022, helping send inflation rates to levels not seen since the 1980s, also caused ripple effects by…
Soccer was not born as “the beautiful game.” It was made beautiful by the artistry of its best players. Nor was soccer born as a global game.…
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart is responsible for the most famous line in the history of unsatisfying definitions. In 1964’s Jacobellis v. Ohio, he said the following…
Fully 16 years after The Road, an 89-year-old Cormac McCarthy has published two new companion novels, likely to be his last, in two months: The Passenger and…
Some of the German names are familiar, if only as cultural-literacy touchstones with long lines of intellectual influence: Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Other names you…
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) sounds as nasty and unpleasant as any lawmaker on Capitol Hill. From reportedly being racist against blacks to fostering a hostile work environment,…
What is the promise of artificial intelligence? For some prognosticators, notably Google’s Sundar Pichai, AI is “more profound than electricity or fire,” a world-transforming development that will…
The second half of President Joe Biden’s term, during which he will either seek reelection or see another Democrat try to succeed him, will hinge on whether…
For sheer volume of words produced, it’s hard to beat Ambrose Heath. A newspaper columnist, Heath wrote (and wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote) about comestibles.…
