Magazine - Life & Arts
A triumphant conclusion to the Wolf Hall Trilogy
“Somewhere — or Nowhere perhaps — there is a society ruled by philosophers. They have clean hands and pure hearts. But even in the metropolis of light…
March 24, 2020
Magazine - Life & Arts
Is your office a CIA psy-op?
If you surf around the website for the CIA, you’ll find a copy of a declassified spy manual from 1944. The document, titled Simple Sabotage Field Manual,…
Magazine - Features
What we are trying to prevent coronavirus from becoming
St. Patrick’s Day was a turning point in the aggressiveness of the federal and state governments’ response to the novel coronavirus. The Trump administration announced plans for…
Beltway Confidential
We made a mistake when we decided both parents ought to work outside the home
“One of the most striking effects of the coronavirus,” British writer Helen Lewis laments in the Atlantic, “will be to send many couples back to the 1950s.…
Beltway Confidential
Things won’t go back to normal
In the 1980s, I went house hunting in London. This took me to Blackheath, just over the River Thames from my newspaper offices in the Isle of…
Editorials
Amid pandemic, be jealous of your liberties, and also, don’t be stupid
Crisis is not just the catalyst of tyranny. It is its raison d’etre. There isn’t a single tyrant or tyrannical ideology that doesn’t claim to be the…
Beltway Confidential
Sailing in uncharted waters
Precedent doesn’t provide much guidance. There’s a deadly coronavirus threatening to circulate through the population. The resulting government orders and social sanctions for self-distancing and self-isolating behavior…
Columnists
Economic optimism steps aside for long-lurking anxieties
It was just last month that Gallup rolled out an eye-popping poll result about economic confidence. Almost 60% of U.S. citizens said they were better off now…
Editorials
Biden would make America dependent on foreign oil again
Fifteen years ago, the United States was importing most of its oil — 12.5 million barrels per day, or nearly twice total domestic oil production at the…