Columnists
Bans on trophy hunting will do nothing for conservation
How suddenly and totally people have turned against trophy hunting. Twenty years ago, it was regarded, even by those who found it distasteful, as a private vice.…
January 18, 2022
Columnists
The moment Joe Biden finally lost his credibility
If President Joe Biden’s disorderly and lethal Afghanistan withdrawal was the moment that fractured voters’ regard for him, then his vicious Atlanta speech last week may be…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Anthropomorphize’
“Anthropomorphize” is one of those words I like just because I learned it in first grade, and logophiles always have a special fondness for some of the…
Magazine - Obituary
Sidney Poitier, 1927-2022
Sometimes a movie star is more than just an actor. During the golden age of Hollywood, and for quite a while thereafter, the greatest stars didn’t so…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Book of Love
Perhaps the greatest risk a male author can take nowadays is to write about women and his relationship with the finer sex, but Francesco Pacifico has gleefully…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Old-Fashioned fixins
In November 1948, the Princeton Alumni Weekly took note that at the recent trouncing of Harvard — the Tigers beat the Crimson 47 to 7 — members…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Comedy goes viral
Looking out at a quarantine-fatigued New York City audience for a new comedy special, Louis C.K. asked, “So how have you all been enjoying living the way…
Economy
Joe Biden’s Scranton problem
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania — As we spoke in the living room of his modest home just outside Scranton, Ralph Mercuri listed the problems afflicting America: the never-ending plague,…
Business
Biden deals with inflation nation
For months last year, the White House said inflation was transitory. But higher prices for gas, groceries, and other day-to-day essentials had stuck around, cementing 2021 as…
Economy
A time to quit
“WE ALL QUIT,” blared the letter-board sign at a Burger King in Lincoln, Nebraska, last summer. “SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.” Things have only gotten quittier since then.…