Magazine - Life & Arts
The things they carried but didn’t really need to
Long before Epictetus got a second act as the spirit animal of a character in Tom Wolfe’s sprawling A Man In Full, the famous Stoic philosopher was…
June 6, 2023
Education
Overeducated liberal media fret as more governors drop college degree requirements to fill state jobs
On the surface, it has the typical markings of Trump-era partisan class warfare. Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) abolished the college degree requirement for most state jobs, and…
Defense
Inside the right-wing debate over Ukraine and Taiwan
The war in Ukraine and China’s challenge to the global order have brought the Right’s foreign policy divide to the surface. Populists and libertarians, critical of Bush-era…
Business
Mortgage rates spike amid debt ceiling drama and inflation
What’s old is new again: Mortgage rates soared past 7% for the first time since last year, according to recent real estate market data, making homes even…
Magazine - Columnists
Target learns the Bud Light lesson: Go woke, go broke
Raise a glass of Bud Light to Target, whose market value shed $10 billion in 10 days after customers revolted against Target’s range of Pride-themed tat. Celebrate…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Tom Rachman’s shore between life and fiction
Ever since Anton Chekhov articulated it as a principle, it has been understood that a gun introduced in the first act of a play will be used…
Education
Do math and literature have anything in common?
No two fields seem to have less in common than mathematics and literature. The former, in Aristotle’s view, is the foundation of all the sciences and nothing…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Thinking doubly hard about George Orwell
A year into the Iraq War, the Chicago Tribune asked if it was “any surprise, as we barrel further into political conflict in Iraq and assess our…
Magazine - Obituary
Ian Hacking, 1936-2023
Philosophical debates about what is real often seem highly abstract, and they run in circles, with little progress being made. The Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking, who died…
Foreign Policy
Is Biden sleepwalking into war with Russia?
A grinding local conflict on Europe’s periphery. Russian nuclear threats. Slowly escalating NATO military aid to Ukraine. Critics of American policy, urging caution, argue that the United…