Magazine Issue

June 18, 2024

WOL of sound: Following the money and activism behind anti-Israel 'days of rage'

Religious ecstasy
Magazine

Religious ecstasy

Before we start, an apology. The next two paragraphs are going to sound a little sciencey: MDMA (chemistry class name: 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic drug that alters…

Rob Long
European vacation
Columnists

European vacation

Summer is here. It’s time for a break, especially from politics. Why waste time thinking about Hunter Biden’s convictions and President Joe Biden’s lack of them when…

Dominic Green
Diplomacy in picaresque
Magazine

Diplomacy in picaresque

In a geopolitical climate dominated by creeping great-power competition, calls for renewed diplomacy sound misguided. Efforts at peace in Gaza and Ukraine have hitherto fallen on deaf…

Nicholas Clairmont
Bob Kelley, 1927-2024
Magazine

Bob Kelley, 1927-2024

Bob Kelley, who reimagined his family’s Kelley Blue Book first as a nationwide source of information and then again as a pillar of the early consumer-oriented World…

Jack Baruth
John Trumbull’s revolutionary art
Magazine

John Trumbull’s revolutionary art

Before the advent of photography, motion pictures, and TV, it was artists and illustrators who provided a visual perspective of the world. Artistic renditions were the only…

Michael Taube