Columnists
A vindictive EU is stirring trouble in Northern Ireland
The rest of the world has largely made up its mind about the Northern Ireland Protocol, the arrangement that the European Union demanded as the price of…
May 10, 2022
Magazine - Life & Arts
Separating the art from the theorist with Isaac Bashevis Singer
It has long been known that Isaac Bashevis Singer’s public persona, that of the grandfatherly storyteller, had been carefully crafted for his readership. Behind the facade of…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The power of the alternative
A friend of mine loves to reminisce about what she calls “the old days,” when she first moved to Hollywood to make her way in the entertainment…
Business
Why Apple’s employees are refusing to return to the office
Of the many reasons to want more workplace flexibility, Apple employees have found the dumbest. In an open letter to the company’s senior management, a group of…
Business
As diesel prices soar, small trucking businesses struggle to stay afloat
Talk to a trucker if you think you’ve got it bad at the gas pump. Drivers with smaller trucking companies, which transport key goods and supplies across…
Magazine - Your Land
The players are getting paid
Almost a decade before Southern Methodist University was given the death penalty by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for violating rules against paying student-athletes, Texas high school…
Business
Have woke corporations finally learned their lesson?
Florida taught Disney a hard but necessary lesson this month when legislators revoked the company’s special privileges and tax status. That lesson is simple: Corporations do not…
Crime
Kathy Boudin, 1943-2022
In the popular imagination, there are multiple candidates for the symbolic end of the 1960s. Some might say that the chaotic and confused decade ended with the…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Disinformation’
An unattributed Japanese proverb has it that “if you understand everything, you must be misinformed.” Clever, no? If a bit twee. This word, “misinformed,” has taken on…
Foreign Policy
Prying Putin’s hands off the Balkans
The 2,000-year-old city of Belgrade boasts a central fortress the Byzantines conquered from the Romans, a $3.5 billion glassy and garish waterfront development bought and paid for…