Magazine - Your Land
Feminist fecundity fails
“Feminism is the new natalism,” David Willetts, a British member of Parliament, declared in a 2004 manifesto. In contrast to those strains of feminism that argue marriage,…
September 12, 2023
Magazine - Life & Arts
Legendary rock ‘n’ roll artist rebuilds after Maui fires
“OH BOY … the front sign is going up on the gallery,” an excited Ruby Mazur posted on his Instagram account on Aug. 7, accompanying a video…
Magazine - Life & Arts
HBO’s fascinating look at the other side of the telemarketer’s line
HBO’s new docuseries Telemarketers is a riveting, charmingly gonzo investigation of the industry by former telemarketers who first began documenting their job with camcorders two decades ago…
Business
California’s shoplifter protection act
It is bad enough that California’s Proposition 47 already functionally legalized shoplifting in the Golden State by reducing the penalty for stealing less than $950 worth of…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Reviewed: The Syriac World: In Search of a Forgotten Christianity by Francoise Briquel Chatonnet and Muriel Debie
A few years ago, I was in Paris and bought three books in French. Given my mediocre ability to read that language, it was overly ambitious. One…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Review: The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life by Clare Carlisle
“Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest,” George Eliot writes in Romola, a novel that presents marriage as the latter and charts the…
Columnists
Save the IRS!
The history of government is the story of bureaucracy. From temples, grain stores, and cuneiform tablets to ministries, standing armies, and the IRS website, the grasp of…
Foreign Policy
The Middle Kingdom meets the Middle East
In December 2022, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Saudi Arabia. Xi promised to “usher in a new era” in Chinese-Arab relations. Nearly a year later, it can…
Foreign Policy
We don’t want to live in an angry veteran of a country
Remember Lt. Dan from the 1994 film Forrest Gump? After Forrest Gump saves him in Vietnam, the lieutenant descends into alcohol and anger, struggling to adapt to…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The immortal John McPhee basks in his mortality
Most writers who graduate from the subsistence level of their careers come to live inside the dream of something they haven’t written yet, will never write, and…