Columnists
Wokeness is making war on science — and even math
I keep wanting to write about something other than the woke revolution. Heaven knows there are other things happening right now. But, as Michael Corleone says, just…
May 25, 2021
Magazine - Life & Arts
Is beer the origin of civilization?
Drinking isn’t for everyone. But it’s possible that without alcohol, there wouldn’t be anyone. That is, a taste for and tolerance of fermented fruits and roots may…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Lockdown on ice
No one, it’s safe to say, ever took up polar exploration in search of a good time. To trudge through its annals is to confront a decidedly…
Business
Biden’s ‘gas tax’ is a pain at the pump
One of my early memories, and not a happy one, is sitting in gas lines in the 1970s. My parents would rustle me out of bed early…
Crime
Death by firing squad
The last time a firing squad was used in the United States was in 2010, when convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner asked the state of Utah to…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The trad guide to being free
Sohrab Ahmari’s new book on tradition is important because its title is inaccurate. In The Unbroken Thread, Ahmari, an editor at the New York Post, defends traditional…
Business
Congress takes aim again at pharmaceutical giant over patent-stacking for brand-name drugs
House lawmakers put AbbVie pharmaceuticals CEO Richard Gonzalez in the hot seat this week over concerns that the drugmaker behind top-selling medications exploited the U.S. patent system…
Crime
Small town blues
The word “trauma” has, in recent years, undergone the inflation and ideological distortion that such psychological concepts often suffer. But trauma is very real, and HBO’s new…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Drawing with David Hockney
David Hockney is one of the world’s most famous living artists. Born in England in 1937 and renowned almost as much for his embrace of technology as…
Magazine - Features
Democrats’ unbearable lightness
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past month, you know that the Republican Party is a mess right now. The corporate media have…