Magazine - Life & Arts
The old hat and the sea
Ernest Hemingway was a man of many hats. His was a movable feast of ways to cover the head. With summer approaching, we may find ourselves sailing…
May 17, 2022
Beltway Confidential
The Brazilification of California
California, those funky Spenglerians the Red Hot Chili Peppers noted, is “the final location” of Western civilization. True, you can go no further west, but that hasn’t…
Crime
Ice cream social justice warriors
Joe’s Ice Cream in San Francisco’s Richmond District regularly hosted community events, including school fundraisers and even weddings. So when the San Francisco Police Department approached owner…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The end of the world for other people
At the end of February, just hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his army to put its nuclear arsenal on high alert, the Russian newscaster Dmitry…
Immigration
Biden gets the worst of both worlds
Before even taking office, journalists were already elevating Joe Biden to the ranks of those greatest of Democratic presidents, the ones known not by their names but…
Foreign Policy
NATO vindicated
I’m standing in an air base in northeastern Romania looking at the incontrovertible truth that there’s something different about Russia’s aggression this time: the NATO Very High…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Doctor Strange in the Multiplex of Meh-ness
In a 2018 opinion piece for the New York Times titled “The Fourth Great Awakening,” David Brooks contrasts the “competitive virtues” of myths with the “cooperative virtues”…
Magazine - Life & Arts
A leader in a pinch
In the Army, promotions are awarded to soldiers based on experience and merit. Promotions bring higher pay, but also more responsibility. This increase in responsibility is perhaps…
Beltway Confidential
Baby formula shows that no policy is an island
Baby formula isn’t something I expected to write about or have ever written about before. But you never know where bad government policy will take you. A…
Magazine - Obituary
Midge Decter, 1927-2022
The obituaries for Midge Decter, the writer and intellectual activist who died last week in Manhattan, age 94, were lengthy and largely respectful in tone. Which is…