Magazine - Life & Arts
P.J. O’Rourke’s riotous legacy
The great thing about a book of quotations is that you don’t have to read it from the beginning like a regular book. You’re actually supposed to…
March 14, 2023
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Moneyball for defense spending?
For the first time in a long time, it’s not just far-left politicians who are calling for cuts to the defense budget: It’s far-right politicians, too. In…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
CHIPS subsidies come with lots of strings
The CHIPS and Science Act was meant to spur the domestic production of computer chips. But after Congress and President Joe Biden enacted the bill last summer,…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The triumphant return of Party Down
Watch the original British version of The Office side by side with its more commercially successful U.S. transplant and you’ll see the bleak, cynical soul of the…
Infrastructure
After East Palestine, which way on Pete Buttigieg?
Several Republicans in Congress have called for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s resignation over his response to the mess in East Palestine, Ohio. A 38-car train derailment on…
Business
Death taxes are immoral. Even worse, they don’t work.
“I have no respect for the passion of equality,” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., one of America’s great jurists, once declared. “It seems to me merely idealizing envy.”…
Business
Lawmakers move to crack down on TikTok
One of the world’s most popular social media companies is facing fresh scrutiny from top officials in Washington as they increase regulatory pressure amid growing concerns over…
Foreign Policy
How Biden’s Iraq War vote has and hasn’t shaped his foreign policy as president
President Joe Biden voted 20 years ago to go to war in Iraq. Unlike Hillary Clinton, this did not prevent him from subsequently reaching the White House.…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Mencken tries some cocktails
It’s hard keeping up with the cocktail craze — not that I would dream of complaining. Night after night, from the gaudy boites of the grand coastal…
Magazine - Features
Biden and the veto power
Joe Biden is expected, likely within the week, to issue the first veto of his presidency more than two years into the start of his administration. His…