Magazine - Life & Arts
Where have you gone, Andy Hardy?
When did the world stop loving Andy Hardy? The character, introduced by playwright Aurania Rouverol in the 1928 play Skidding and played by Mickey Rooney in a…
May 11, 2021
Magazine - Life & Arts
UFC is the new national pastime
Dominick Cruz’s recent post-fight callout was an important moment in American sports. After a UFC fight, winners often challenge big-name fighters to create buzz for future bouts,…
Business
Part of Biden’s tax increase would end longtime real estate tax provision
While President Joe Biden’s plans to increase the corporate tax rate and tax more capital gains have grabbed headlines, real estate investors are fretting over another proposed…
Magazine - Features
Assault on the Constitution
On Nov. 6 of last year, the country narrowly voted for a self-described centrist to be president. At the same time, it handed Congress to the Democratic…
Beltway Confidential
Joe Biden’s fiscal (and other) follies
Conservatives don’t have a monopoly on gloom and doom. For confirmation of this, one need only look at the Malthusian Left’s repeated, and repeatedly mistaken, predictions that…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Biden says he has the transgender community’s back. What does that mean?
President Joe Biden had a message in his first address to a joint session of Congress. “To all transgender Americans watching at home, especially the young people,…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Don’t sweat the minibar
I wrote an essay for the Los Angeles Times a while ago about my experiences with the minibar at the Wynn resort in Las Vegas. It’s a…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A robot apocalypse for the whole family
Our collective anxieties about artificial intelligence — our worries that our machines will eventually surpass, and perhaps even exterminate, us — go back to the origin of…
Magazine - Life & Arts
For sale: Coquettish mask, never worn
We might have learned more from the Spanish flu about what to expect, socially and culturally, from our own pandemic. When, a century ago, states and cities…
Magazine - Obituary
Jacques d’Amboise, 1934-2021
In a memorable passage in his great 1969 novel Mr. Bridge, writer Evan S. Connell sketched a perfect comic picture of the indifference to art among some…