Magazine - Features
Still Bernin’
The great irony of Bernie Sanders’s socialist revolution is that for it to have any chance of succeeding, the Vermont senator would have to convince his fellow…
January 26, 2021
Beltway Confidential
Our commitment to readers in the Biden era
President Biden has been in office just days, but already, there are indications of a leftward lurch on policy that belies his campaign promise to govern as…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The dictatorship of virtue
Of the many think pieces written during the recent presidential cycle, few have aged as poorly as Gabriel Winant’s 2019 essay “Professional-Managerial Chasm,” published in the literary…
Magazine - Your Land
Spiritually infected
Have you noticed that every time you have learned and shared a bit of good news about the coronavirus plague, someone pointed you to a news article…
Education
Is it time to go back to school yet?
Schools are still closed. Yes, many school districts have opened their doors, but in most of our big cities and large suburban counties, schoolhouses are empty while…
Magazine - Your Land
Garth Brooks tries to live in the world
Garth Brooks is in trouble for having friends in high places as cancel culture spreads rightward. When Brooks announced that first lady Jill Biden had asked him…
Healthcare
Biden’s coronavirus aid package could get a bipartisan makeover
President Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid proposal may end up less costly and more narrow after a bipartisan makeover some House and Senate lawmakers hope to achieve.…
Magazine - Features
Baggage check
Now that the Trump administration has come to an unpleasant and ignominious close, a looming question remains: What will happen to the enmities incurred in what was…
Magazine - Life & Arts
How to drink like Winston Churchill
We live in an age of fascination with the United Kingdom’s great wartime leader (and no, I don’t mean Tony Blair). There are Winston Churchill books aplenty,…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Smoke signals
In “Kids Who Come Back,” one of the stories in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez describes the contents of the MySpace page of a…