Entertainment
The joke’s on you
The novelist John Gardner once classified a certain type of hack writer as the “disPollyanna” — a curdled optimist whose wounded, childlike idealism is inverted and weaponized…
October 16, 2024
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Entertainment
Booed in the USA: Trump campaign must deal with left-leaning artists who openly oppose his use of their music
Every big campaign event playing out across the United States this election season has its essential ingredients. There’s the chanting crowd, the patriotic festoonery, the smiling candidate,…
Magazine
Kamala Harris’s selective incumbency
Vice President Kamala Harris seeks to have it both ways. She wants the benefits of incumbency when it suits her while also being unburdened by President Joe…
Congressional
House Democrats eye a pair of Iowa seats late in the game
Perhaps no state in the country had Republican candidates do better in 2022 than Iowa. The GOP won up and down the ballot. For the first time…
Magazine
Biden’s real Pennsylvania edge that is now gone for Democrats
KENNETT SQUARE, Pennsylvania — On a recent bustling Saturday night, cars parked in an upscale shopping center of this Philadelphia suburb included a healthy minority of license…
Business
Trump-Musk government efficiency commission idea draws Capitol Hill interest
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) is a big fan of former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of a so-called government efficiency commission. Arrington, who has been…
Magazine
Pete Rose, forever banished: The flawed baseball great faced a lifetime of exile
At one point during his 1969 run for mayor of New York City, the novelist, essayist, filmmaker, and impenitent outlaw of polite society Norman Mailer described the…
Entertainment
Pulp Reality: Reflections on the 30th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece
In 1993, Quentin Tarantino’s dreams broke containment. They had previously been kept inside his skull, but they now began to leak into the world and become part…
Magazine
The joys of in-person shopping
I made a mistake this past weekend and tried to buy a desk lamp. The mistake wasn’t buying one — I have a little table I like…
In Focus
US sees staggering increase in antisemitic incidents after Oct. 7
Mere hours after Hamas’s heinous Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel that resulted in approximately 1,200 dead and 250 taken hostage, the Jewish community worldwide became…