Louis Menand’s history for the end of history
Writing history, Gustave Flaubert once complained, is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful. With his new book, an 880-page doorstop titled The Free World: Art…
Writing history, Gustave Flaubert once complained, is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful. With his new book, an 880-page doorstop titled The Free World: Art…
Most members of Congress are vaccinated against the coronavirus, and the pandemic is largely waning in the United States. Yet, dozens of House lawmakers continue to take…
The debate about the moral status of the phrases “Chinese coronavirus” or “Wuhan flu” has been infused with dishonesty from the very beginning. What I think happened,…
Thinking of ordering a coffee that’s more cream and sugar than bean? How about getting one of those free vaccine doughnuts? A soda to wash it down?…
There’s a new way to make money on the internet: You can sell your social media posts, digital pictures, and videos as an original piece of art…
The incisive back-and-forths. The immaculate casting. That earworm of a theme song. In Treatment is back after a 10-year hiatus, and the HBO psychotherapy drama has not…
Marty Stauffer owns an insurance brokerage in Lynden, Washington, where he sells auto, home, and other insurance policies. When customers stop by Stauffer Insurance to chat these…
If Bill Gates can successfully build an advanced nuclear reactor at a retiring coal plant in Wyoming, it will validate how a new breed of carbon-free nuclear…
In his first five months as president, Joe Biden has offered up his fair share of poor personnel choices. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Health and Human…
Until 1991, when Clarence Thomas was nominated and then confirmed to the Supreme Court, the most prominent black conservative in America was likely Thomas Sowell, the Chicago-trained…