Columnists
Is ‘Where are you really from?’ a racist question?
It seems, at first blush, like an everyday tale of woke hypersensitivity and intolerance. But the more you think about it, the more it shines a light…
January 3, 2023
Magazine - Your Land
Out of house and home
What do you get when you cross liberal “empathy” governance with the political reality that people don’t like health hazards popping up in their neighborhoods? You get…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The last stand of the Damned
The Damned were one of the first bands to emerge from the West London rehearsal room that also produced the Sex Pistols and the Clash. Like the…
Magazine - Life & Arts
What made Saul Bellow a master
In the new documentary The Adventures of Saul Bellow, the black novelist and literature professor Charles R. Johnson reads a passage aloud from Bellow’s 1971 novel Mr.…
Magazine - Your Land
Words of the Year, Pt. II
Last Word of the Week, I wrote about the first half of the new words I learned in 2022, a salmagundi (random assortment) of rare terms I…
Beltway Confidential
A year-end mess
The establishment media seem determined to end the year 2022 as they began it: poorly. In one example, the Washington Post made a shocking discovery this week: The…
Business
Microsoft tangles with authorities over video game maker acquisition bid
Microsoft and video game maker Activision Blizzard are pushing the Federal Trade Commission to approve their pending $69 billion deal and overcome the regulator’s antitrust concerns. The…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The spies who came in from the grim
In the first season of Slow Horses, Apple TV’s stylish and entertaining British spy show, a disheveled intelligence chief, Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), gathers his officers in…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Hacker claims to steal personal data of 400 million Twitter users
A hacker has claimed to have stolen the personal data of 400 million Twitter users, giving the social media platform even more headaches after its rocky takeover…
Beltway Confidential
Do babies come with a satisfaction guarantee?
Mothers across America are experiencing Betty Draper-level breakdowns, at least according to the legacy media. Headline after headline during the pandemic offered the same story: Like the…