Magazine - Life & Arts
Canceling the counterculture
Looking for a movie to watch the other evening, I stumbled across Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It had been years since I last saw old…
November 3, 2020
Healthcare
Uighur women in China bear mental scars of forced sterilizations
Mihrigul Tursun’s nightmare began in March 2017. She returned from Egypt, where she had been living and working, to Xinjiang, a province in the western part of…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The human comedy
Not long after the initial wave of enthusiasm and revilement surrounding Thomas Piketty’s 2014 bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Jordan Ellenberg described it in the Wall…
Healthcare
Tribalism as survivalism
In the course of three years I just spent on the road speaking with voters about President Trump, what surprised me the most was how few people…
Beltway Confidential
Election malarkey and other BS
The election now upon us is, among other things, about what Joe Biden almost uniquely calls “malarkey” and President Trump and his supporters all call “bulls—.” If…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Sofia Coppola’s latest is worth finding
Seventeen years have passed since Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray joined forces to create Lost in Translation, the 2003 hipster classic for which both director and star…
Healthcare
What a post-Roe America would look like
When Republican senators confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Democrats immediately turned the volume up on their threats of retribution. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer…
Business
Trickle-up conservatism
The day after President Trump endorsed Elise Stefanik, the North Country New York congresswoman discussed with the Washington Examiner the future of conservatism, the importance of community…
Business
Joe Biden’s potential war against the South
Joe Biden has said he wants to be president of all the states and doesn’t see red states and blue states. But his economic policies are a…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Don DeLillo’s apocalypse
When does a novel with a timely perspective and a resonant subject matter cease to be particularly timely or resonant? Perhaps when the novel in question is…