Magazine - Life & Arts
Waiting for the Barbarians
I once had a professor of Canadian politics, a charming older man who wore a bow tie, who liked to ask his students if we’d seen the…
October 12, 2021
Finance
How to bury the hatchet
A friend of mine who works in finance was fired a few months ago. I’m not sure why, exactly. He insisted that it was totally unfair, which…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Should genetics make us socialist?
The Genetic Lottery, by University of Texas psychologist Kathryn Paige Harden, is a good book whose central ethical argument is unpersuasive. This is not a contradiction: Forwarding…
Beltway Confidential
Democrats — the party of ‘free stuff’
Democrats tout polls showing public support for their $3.5 trillion social spending and tax hike bill, which critics (in horror) and supporters (gleefully) say will transform the…