Magazine - Life & Arts
The viral short story ‘Cat Person’ hits the big screen
Right after I saw the new film adaptation of “Cat Person,” I dug up the issue of the New Yorker in which Kristen Roupenian’s short story first…
October 17, 2023
Columnists
Why no Jewish Lives Matter movement?
When a black man was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020, it was treated as an attack on black people everywhere. From Baden, Ontario,…
Foreign Policy
Is Ukraine really losing?
And just like that Ukraine became the “other war.” No sooner had the scale of Hamas’s savage butchery in Israel become clear, did Ukraine’s frenemies in Congress…
Defense
A clarifying moment for the West
“In the event of an air-raid siren during the ceremony,” we were told earlier this week, at the second funeral we’d attended in as many days for…
Education
Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western Civ is what to know!
— When Jesse Jackson marched with leftist Stanford University students during his run for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, they chanted, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Western culture’s…
Justice
Liberals reap consequences of their homeless policies
It’s cliche to observe that socially conservative views emerge when liberals are “mugged by reality.” But when it happens to the governor of California and the local…
Beltway Confidential
Rising bond yields a blinking red light about the need to curb federal spending
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Co. couldn’t have picked a worse time to sink the nine-month House speakership of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). The defenestration of McCarthy…
Foreign Policy
Slew of vexing international crises confront Biden a year out from Election Day
Presidential campaigns after the Cold War era have largely been decided on domestic issues rather than international affairs. President Joe Biden, however, won’t have the luxury of…
Healthcare
Ohio abortion ballot measure a signal of voter sentiment heading into 2024
Ohio voters will decide on Nov. 7 whether abortion should be enshrined as a constitutional right in their state, the second time they will weigh in on…
Foreign Policy
Israel’s war of atonement, 50 years on
“War,” the late historian Barbara Tuchman once observed, “is the unfolding of miscalculations.” Fifty years ago, a war born of miscalculations and hubris erupted in the Middle…