Magazine - Features
Val Demings gets a second shot
It’s Val Demings’s moment, this time for real. The Florida Democratic congresswoman, who’d made it to Joe Biden’s veep short list only to see Kamala Harris get…
November 2, 2021
Magazine - Your Land
Kamala’s church campaign
The only time you’ll find a liberal politician in a church is if she’s campaigning in one. Just ask Vice President Kamala Harris, who recorded a video…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Succession returns at last
When, a little over two weeks ago, White House chief of staff Ronald Klain dismissed the nation’s economic woes as “high-class problems,” conventional wisdom held that the…
Healthcare
Sympathy for the hypochondriac
Reading The Deep Places, the new memoir from New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, I was reminded of a conversation I’d had with a friend back home…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The conservative Hannah Arendt
A month after Donald Trump was elected president, the Washington Post published an essay by political scientist Jeffrey C. Isaac describing how people with “growing fears about…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Rambling Roses
The reader may notice, before he’s read so much as the first sentence of Rebecca Solnit’s biographical florilegium Orwell’s Roses, that Solnit has something important in common…
Magazine - Your Land
The Anti-Defamation League’s woke guide to Halloween costumes
This madness must stop. Of all the incidents centered on racism in this country, Halloween has not once ever been brought up as a legitimate concern. This…
Magazine - Your Land
When in doubt, move to Florida
The solution to many of the problems we face right now is pretty straightforward: We have to move to a place where those problems don’t exist. That’s…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Something better to do in Scotland
As of this writing, the global elite, instead of availing themselves of the magic carbon neutrality of a massive multiplayer Zoom call, are gassing up the Gulf…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Nazi salutes, devout Catholics, and an unapproved op-ed
Nazi salutes Members of the press would have you believe Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who defended free speech rights during a recent congressional hearing, is a possible…