Magazine - Columnists
We’re all big spenders now
Are we “all socialists now”? That phrase has been endlessly reprised and repurposed since it was first uttered by a British minister (a centrist liberal) in 1887.…
March 24, 2020
Magazine - Your Land
Out of sporting darkness, Love finds a way
For sports fans, Thursday, March 12, 2020, will go down as a day of infamy. Many will call it the worst day in sports history. The whole…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The eerie alternate history of The Plot Against America
A charismatic celebrity who has never before held a political office decides to run for the presidency of the United States. He improbably wins the Republican nomination…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Adulting in the beyond
Extra Ordinary (dir. Mike Ahern & Edna Loughman. 93 minutes. R) If, as a general rule, horror movies lose their appeal as you grow up, horror comedies…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The quirks of quarantine
I’ve been thinking about scenes from a couple of wildly different Charlton Heston movies. The second I’ll get to later, but the first is a bit from…
Magazine - Business
Five trillion dollars down the drain
In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, everyone should read Robert Higgs’s economic classic Crisis and Leviathan. The critical warning of this masterpiece is that government always…
Magazine - Features
Why the coronavirus is worse than the seasonal flu
During the 2018-2019 season, there were more than 35 million cases of the flu that resulted in 34,157 deaths in the United States alone. Yet each year,…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
US Africa Command misses opportunity to show value amid canceled exercises
In the sand and the rocky, mountainous terrain of the expansive Sahara Desert, it’s not just terrorist groups that roam, plotting surprise attacks on military installations and…
Energy and Environment
US oil giant Chevron takes ‘long-ball’ approach to climate change in pivot to clean energy
Chevron, like other U.S. oil and gas majors such as Exxon Mobil, has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from its operations across oil and gas fields,…
Beltway Confidential
In a pandemic, NFL offseason may be the cure for what ails us
Tom Brady leaves the Patriots! Cam Newton jettisoned by the Panthers! Stefon Diggs changes teams! As the coronavirus pandemic justifiably dominated news coverage in mid-March, and as…