Beltway Confidential
The best and brightest
Something is seriously wrong with the Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz. The TikTok correspondent took a break last week from harassing anonymous Twitter users to tell a weirdly blatant…
May 10, 2022
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Senate Democrats bluster on Roe response
Some Senate Democrats have threatened that if Roe goes, so does the filibuster. After Politico reported the leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision that would entirely…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Holy Grail
As a child growing up in Phoenix, on most Sunday mornings (at least those I wasn’t playing hooky), one would have found me at the big downtown…
Crime
Trump endorsement appears to have boosted JD Vance, who triumphed in the Ohio primary
The MAGA vote dominated the Ohio Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, but J.D. Vance grabbed the most and prevailed. He will now face Rep. Tim Ryan…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Psychiatry’s revolution in retrospect
The year 1984, which now seems like ancient history, was a formative one for me and a landmark year in the field of psychiatry. I had graduated…
Economy
Let them eat prestige?
Recently, the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry posted a job listing for an adjunct position teaching classes. Recruiting short-term faculty to teach classes a la carte…
Business
Slow growth for Amazon and Meta hampers regulation efforts
Disappointing earnings reports from Big Tech companies may complicate efforts in Congress to pass new restrictions on the digital giants. Amazon stock fell to its lowest price…
Crime
Memory, Liam Neeson’s latest, is forgettable
Alex Lewis, Liam Neeson’s latest vigilante antihero persona, faces a predicament in Memory, directed by Martin Campbell and written by Dario Scardapane. Lewis is an American assassin…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A free speech crisis in the cradle of the Enlightenment
In the past couple of years, my home country of Scotland has disappointed me in many ways. First, in 2020, the encroachment of American-style “critical social justice”…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Springtime for football
High-speed rail, industrial on-shoring, cheap healthcare, a spring professional football league: What is it in the American character that prohibits us from having these things? Most religions…