Magazine - Features
Joe Biden’s resurrection
And then there were two. With apologies to Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, the Democratic presidential race, which once featured more than 20 contestants of some notoriety, is…
March 17, 2020
Business
Coronavirus disrupts renewable energy’s global supply chain
The coronavirus hasn’t just upended oil markets. The virus is also casting a shadow over renewable energy markets as solar and wind developers face an uncertain global…
Magazine - Features
The Hunt’s saving grace
Last August, outraged conservatives won a one-sided war with Universal Pictures, using social media to get the studio to cancel the autumn release of The Hunt. The…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Top dog
Dogs are not only man’s best friend — they are also man’s oldest. We domesticated dogs so long ago that there are no written records of a…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Well-tailored prose
Brooks Brothers wants to be my editor. And a rather strict editor at that. The clothier isn’t overly concerned with run-on sentences or philosophical, philological questions such…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Raising the dead
The Anglophone embrace of the German novelist Walter Kempowski is already less inhibited than his reception at home. Kempowski, who died in 2007, was a member of…
Magazine - Your Land
Germs in the air?
You can fly from LaGuardia to O’Hare for $61. JFK to Rome will cost you only $290. Cheap flights are everywhere, because nobody wants to fly anywhere.…
Business
Please, not ‘shovel-ready’ projects again!
It was just a little over 10 years ago at the height of the 2008-2009 financial crisis that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said one of the dumbest…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Hunters botches the Holocaust
“The Talmud is wrong,” Al Pacino’s character says in the first episode of Hunters. “Living well is not the best revenge. You know what the best revenge…
Magazine - Your Land
Who’s ready for coronavirus? Introverts
“Coronavirus,” comedian Mark Normand tweeted last week, “a dangerous infection or an [introvert’s] dream?” As COVID-19 spreads through the United States, with 1,000 cases and counting, more…