Magazine - Life & Arts
Bill & Ted’s not very excellent adventure
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the slacker comedy about two blissfully dumb teenagers who travel back in time through a phone booth in order to learn enough…
September 29, 2020
Magazine - Life & Arts
Rene Girard’s victim complex
The French social theorist Rene Girard, who died in 2015, was what Isaiah Berlin called a hedgehog: a thinker who knows “one big thing.” That big thing…
Magazine - Obituary
Juliette Greco, 1927-2020
Like the beat poets of 1950s San Francisco or the decadents of Weimar Republic Berlin, there really was a postwar bohemian enclave in the Saint-Germain-des-Pres neighborhood on…
Magazine - Your Land
The Emmy Awards hit an all-time low
This year’s Emmy Awards was a spectacular bust. An audience of 6.4 million viewers tuned into the virtual event on Sunday, which was down from last year’s…
Business
No, the United States is not systemically racist
In the second half of the 20th century, from 1950 to 2000, black people in the United States experienced much larger income gains than whites did. The…
Columnists
Democrats may regret their love of mail-in voting
Brace yourselves for Naked Ballot November. As the pandemic has pushed some states to dramatically change their election protocols with just months to go before the presidential…
Editorials
Princeton’s cheap, empty virtue-signaling may prove very expensive
Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber has gotten himself into a bit of a bind, as the Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe first reported. Earlier this month, he released…
Beltway Confidential
Democrats destroy their own Supreme Court case
There is so much that is wrong and dishonest about the Democrats’ angry argument against President Trump choosing a Supreme Court justice to replace the late Ruth…
Beltway Confidential
Republicans can’t face voters if they don’t confirm Ginsburg’s replacement
It says something about the effects of decades of politicization of the Supreme Court that the instant Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death became public, the bitter partisan…