Business
Too many people are hardly working, not working hard
The Labor Department recently reported there are now a record 10.9 million job openings in America. That’s twice the size of the entire Ohio labor force. Yet…
September 14, 2021
Magazine - Life & Arts
Dirty Work is an exploration of the jobs we won’t do
Eyal Press’s Dirty Work explores the areas of the economy that the general public ignores. Press’s thesis is that there are certain jobs that the public condemns…
Magazine - Your Land
Dolce & Gabbana is saved from cancellation (again)
Dolce & Gabbana has been revived from the obscurity of cancellation (again). It’s easily understandable if you missed the Italian fashion house being canceled as the fashion…
Magazine - Obituary
Willard Scott, 1934-2021
Throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s, mornings in America had a certain air of predictability. In the background was one of the big three network…
Magazine - Your Land
Word of the Week: ‘Person-first’
Let’s begin with a reminder that an Afghan is a noun for a person, an afghan is a wool shawl, and an Afghani is a unit of…
Magazine - Features
Yes, Biden blew it
Contingencies are messy things. The Biden administration’s improvisatory scramble after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban was one of several such messes America witnessed in the…
Magazine - Your Land
Where community survives
What are the problems where you live? Is it impossible to find a parking spot at the Christmas concert? Are the PTA parents overeager and bossy? Is…
Business
A semiconductor shortage is negatively affecting the auto industry
The heads of major automotive companies say there’s no immediate end in sight to a global chip shortage that has halted assembly lines across North America and…
Magazine - Life & Arts
The unmasked bride
My wife and I recently went to see an outdoor showing of the 1987 film, The Princess Bride. We had a heavy Portuguese blanket on which to…
Magazine - Life & Arts
Trans is a flawed defense of reality
A decade ago, few really thought much about transgender issues. Sure, the acronym was LGBT, but the debates in the 1990s and early 2000s were all about…