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Exit gate to freedom
The Ukrainian ambassador to France is a courtly man who discharges his duties with all the gravitas of an envoy of a nation at war. Yet, at…
January 30, 2024
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Lawmakers want the Washington Commanders to play in DC, but Maryland and Virginia also are interested
The regional debate over the location of the Washington Commanders‘ next home is intensifying after the NFL team’s first season under new ownership, with Maryland, Washington, D.C.,…
Magazine
A conversation among veterans with Gov. Ron DeSantis
There have been great presidents who never did any soldiering, of course, but there has never been this long a run of American commanders in chief who…
Entertainment
Leading light-haired ladies
Among all the available definitions of cinema, few are at once truer and more politically incorrect than the one offered by Jean-Luc Godard. “The history of cinema,”…
Magazine
Lucy in the sky with the corporations, military contractors, and intelligence agencies that created psychedelics
The famous Dupont slogan “Better Living Through Chemistry” was never intended to apply to drug use, but as Benjamin Breen explains in Tripping on Utopia, his charming…
Magazine
The ne’er-do-wells who built America
There’s a legend, most recently propagated in a song from the musical Hamilton, that upon surrendering at Yorktown, the British army played the tune “The World Turned Upside Down,”…
Entertainment
True Detective freezes over
In its three previous outings, the HBO anthology series True Detective used police work to explore and defend masculine virtues. The show’s new season abandons that project,…
Beltway Confidential
People forgot to have babies, so now schools are closing down
Readers of a certain age may recall when school overcrowding was a big worry. Throughout the 1990s, as the baby boomers became school parents — that is,…
Magazine
America’s foreign enemies stoke Jew hatred on campus
Immediately after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel, in which Hamas murdered and tortured 1,200 while capturing 240 hostages, celebrations of this “victory” over the Jewish…
Entertainment
The book is better than the Yorgos Lanthimos movie
It is an act of vandalism that Poor Things, the Scottish polymath Alasdair Gray’s astonishing 1992 novel, even shares a title with Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’s atrocious…