Magazine - Features
Roberts Rules
This is the year it really became the Roberts Court. Chief Justice John Roberts presided over Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, which seems like a lifetime ago, and…
July 28, 2020
Magazine - Features
Confederate ‘de-Nazification’ is doomed
There are no monuments to the Nazis in Germany or Austria. After the racial reckoning in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, Americans have…
Business
Down and out downtown
Pity the neighborhood saloon in this pandemic. But pity even more the happy-hour and lunch spot for tie-wearing, pantsuit-donning, expense-account-having crowd. The lockdowns and the plague have…
Magazine - Features
The DNC’s extreme platform
For the first time in 12 years, the Democratic National Committee has formally condemned communism, according to a leaked draft of the party’s platform obtained by the…
Magazine - Features
Buy physical media
“I’m against book burning of any kind. But …” Rarely does such a formulation conclude with anything other than a total contradiction of the declaration with which…
Education
Making homeschooling cool again
Most parents are still not yet sure whether their children will be attending school in person this fall. So, some have decided to take matters into their…
Magazine - Columnists
America’s mindset recovered from Spanish flu for one reason: unity
PITTSBURGH — Six months after a private staggered into the Fort Riley Army base infirmary in Kansas with a raging fever, chills, and a sore throat, this…
Beltway Confidential
Defunding police won’t solve inner-city violence, but proven solutions can
A hemorrhage of violence is sweeping across low-income black neighborhoods throughout the nation as police have withdrawn from communities after being vilified as an extension of “systemic…
Beltway Confidential
L’état, c’est Mao — China actually agrees with its critics
The Chinese Communist Party dictatorship in Beijing is considering punishing two private companies, Nokia and Ericsson, if the European Union bars Huawei Technologies from 5G networks in…