Magazine - Life & Arts
A.N. Wilson, failed confessor
“I have never suffered from ‘writer’s block,’” A.N. Wilson announces at the beginning of his memoir, Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises, but he adds quickly that…
November 8, 2022
Healthcare
Turning down the heat on cold collections
Arizona voters are set to decide on a union-backed ballot initiative that aims to limit how debt collectors can go after residents for unpaid medical bills. The…
Equality, Not Elitism
The DEI war on fun
Opinion The DEI war on fun By Conn Carroll, Commentary Editor November 04, 2022 05:15 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Opinion The DEI war on fun…
Magazine - Your Land
Of families and phones
Sometimes I wonder how my mother did it, coordinating afterschool activities as a single mother when everything had to be set up that morning and, if something…
Energy and Environment
Warmer weather provides welcome reprieve for energy-strapped Europe
Europe is in the throes of a late-autumn heat wave that is expected to continue through most, if not all, of November. And it’s easing pressure on…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Hit play on The Playlist
“Without music,” Nietzsche famously stated, “life would be a mistake.” OK, true, but how much worse would life be without free music? The infinite streaming era was…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Sluggers, sippers, and pitchers
As I write, the Phillies and the Astros are putting on their cleats and readying themselves for another World Series game, which would seem to be a…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Too good to check
There’s an old reporter’s saying that they use when a story or rumor perfectly illustrates the point the reporter is trying to make but is probably not…
Magazine - Washington Briefing
Not-so-full House
The 117th Congress is set to end this fall without ever having had a full House. It’s an unusual situation that, in an era of an evenly…
Foreign Policy
Biden’s anti-strategic national security strategy
The Biden administration has just released its National Security Strategy, as mandated by the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986. The NSS theoretically serves as the grand strategy document…