Magazine - Columnists
The break between Trump and the GOP
Who is to blame? Who has disgraced the United States in the eyes of the world, putting it on a level with Turkey or Egypt or some…
January 12, 2021
Editorials
Political violence is always wrong, not just when you disagree with the cause
Political violence is always wrong. This should not be a controversial statement. Politicians who incite, praise, or enable violence like what the nation saw at the Capitol…
Magazine - Your Land
Then and Now: Coup
On Jan. 6, a mob of pro-Trump extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election results. President Trump fomented…
Business
New York State of Whine
Although Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen headlined New Year’s Eve festivities in typical inebriated fashion, the scene at Times Square was anything but normal. With New York…
Magazine - Features
Trump vs. the rule of law
Up until the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021, it was possible to argue that President Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the 2020 presidential election wouldn’t…
Magazine - Life & Arts
How do you map a world at war?
Early in 1941, the editors of reference books such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary, and Cram’s Popular Atlas of the World were having trouble keeping…
Magazine - Your Land
The sports writers who hate sports
The truth is that the battle between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Alabama Crimson Tide for college football’s national championship was never going to decide college…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Searching for JD Salinger
In the autumn of 2013, David Shields and Shane Salerno produced an eagerly awaited biography of J.D. Salinger. Besides confirming the long-held assumption that the author of…
Magazine - Life & Arts
George Clooney’s latest is a boring mess
In days of yore, when “opening night” meant something other than a movie’s initial arrival in one’s Netflix queue, I would have gotten dressed and driven into…
Beltway Confidential
Horror on Capitol Hill
Watching President Trump’s mob smashing its way into the U.S. Congress on Jan. 6 triggered emotional and intellectual horror similar to that of seeing Notre Dame Cathedral…