Business
Making big corporations our moral arbiters
When did we decide that big businesses were our moral arbiters? Yes, companies have legal personality, but until around six years ago, the idea that they might…
June 8, 2021
Columnists
In Erie, local politics is practical before it is historic
ERIE, Pennsylvania — Tyler Titus attracted a considerable amount of national attention two weeks ago when the city school board president narrowly won the Democratic Party primary…
Business
Consumer prices are up, but is there an inflation crisis waiting?
Housing prices, gasoline prices, lumber prices, used-car prices, and grocery prices are all up. Is the United States on the verge of an inflation crisis? Many people…
Magazine - Life & Arts
On the use and abuse of daiquiris
Now that summer is here, the time is propitious for enjoying one of the great, if greatly abused, warm weather cocktails: the daiquiri. The daiquiri was a…
Magazine
Then and Now: Ghosts
“Are ghosts haunting the British Museum?” So asks a recent essay from the Economist’s 1843 magazine. “Inexplicable noises, spectral sightings, sudden drops in temperature — something strange…
Business
Ron DeSantis signs bill aimed at reining in Big Tech
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that was supposed to help combat online censorship, only to draw the ire of tech companies and legal experts. In…
Magazine - Obituary
Foster Friess, 1940-2021
Invited guests at Foster Friess’s birthday party in 2010 were asked to pick a favored charity. The Wyoming multimillionaire and his wife, Lynn, were both turning 70.…
Education
Bill de Blasio is right: Remote learning should be done away with for good
Come September, all schoolchildren ought to be back in the classroom. Yet, many politicians and school chiefs are afraid to promise: no more Zoom school. It took…
Magazine - Features
All eyes on DeSantis
Ron DeSantis is sitting in the ballroom of Pittsburgh’s Wyndham Hotel facing the famous confluence of three rivers. The waterways carry coal barges, kayaks, jet skis, and…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Those Who Wish Me Dead is all smoke, no fire
The late-blooming and meteorically successful filmmaker Taylor Sheridan, a writer and director who grew up on a West Texan farm and today owns several ranches, has carved…