Magazine - Your Land
A nation of Scrooges
There are many commendable adaptations of Charles Dickens‘s 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, but if your family is anything like mine, The Muppet Christmas Carol is the…
January 8, 2025
Jimmy Carter, voters reject incumbents, Elon Musk, Western civilization fights back, wokeness dies, and the Bob Dylan movie all in this week's magazine.
Education
Academics against higher education
Last month, the University of Michigan announced it would no longer use diversity statements in faculty hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions. The decision is a laudable one,…
In Focus
Democracy vs. bureaucracy: How populism became the handmaiden of tech
Across the world, more people voted in 2024 than in any year in history. About half of the world’s adult population got the chance to vote in…
Beltway Confidential
New year, new felony
California voters decided in November that they wanted to celebrate the holidays and ring in the new year by locking up criminals who are finding out the…
Magazine
Brave SANU world: Lessons from a postpartum retreat
Equipped with a screaming 5-week-old baby and an apprehensive husband, I found myself 11 floors above a Wegmans in the Dulles-ward direction of Washington, D.C.’s suburbs in…
Magazine - Your Land
The religious Left
We are told every day to fear the rise of the “Christian nationalists,” you know, those religious extremists who believe their rights come from God rather than…
Columnists
In Germany, Musk is pursuing disruption for its own sake
Elon Musk could have retired after making his first fortune with PayPal. He had more than enough money for a lifetime and might have devoted his remaining…
Entertainment
Netflix’s non-adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude
“In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening anywhere in the world without leaving his own house,” the gypsy chief Melquiades prophesies…
Beltway Confidential
Bourbon Street before terrorism
Before al Qaeda and ISIS, before the age of attacks at crowded celebrations such as the Boston Marathon or the prelude to a Sugar Bowl, the “dangers”…
Magazine
Lee Edwards, 1932-2024
Lee Edwards was the foremost historian of the modern American conservative movement and also one of its most active participants. He was both present at creation and…