Magazine - Life & Arts
Dancing on the edge of a volcano
We are Weimar Germany, or so we are told. Our wild, apocalyptic present is, in the view of a hundred professors and columnists, best understood by comparison…
June 30, 2020
Healthcare
Latin America is bearing the brunt of the coronavirus
Flawed healthcare systems in several Latin American countries are fueling the world’s worst coronavirus outbreak. Brazil, Mexico, and Peru have collectively reported about 1.6 million cases, according…
Magazine - Your Land
Fireworks-gate
If you live in a big city or one of its surrounding suburbs, you’ve probably heard the fireworks — lots of them, at all times of night,…
Magazine - Your Land
The ESPYs: More last place than Last Dance
At a time when sports fans are desperate for anything even remotely resembling sports, ESPN found the thing nobody would watch. The 2020 ESPYs came in at…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Can Snowpiercer keep moving?
Among the many questions that must be answered in a review of Snowpiercer, TNT’s new 10-part adaptation of a French graphic novel, one stands out: How does…
Business
Philip Morris CEO spends waking hours getting people to quit smoking cigarettes
Martin King is CEO of Philip Morris International America and leads the company’s charge to get people around the world to quit smoking cigarettes. He has worked…
Editorials
‘Defund the police’ is just another way for the Left to push its usual agenda
“Defund the police” has been one of the defining phrases in the weeks of protests following the death of George Floyd. Although there has been considerable debate…
Beltway Confidential
A dirty dozen terms used to manipulate your thoughts
Before he died in January, Sir Roger Scruton wrote in the Daily Mail about his mission secretly educating people living under communist tyranny. He described being in…
Editorials
Removing Theodore Roosevelt statue is a step too far
The decision to remove a statue of Theodore Roosevelt that has stood outside the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History for over 80 years is…