New York City was not built by people who were scared. The whole point of the city has always been the speed and grit and ambition of its people. If there was a new tool that could build higher, move faster, or make someone more money, New Yorkers grabbed it with both hands. Which makes […]
There’s a lot of money to be made by defecting to the other side. Hopping across the aisle comes with fame, fawning New York Times profiles (that is, if the move is from Right to Left), and endless cable news hits. Just ask Liz Cheney or Robert F. Kennedy Jr. But in a world of narcissistic headline-seekers, there are […]
Consider a thought experiment. The year is 2030, two years after the Democrats have retaken the Congress and/or the White House. What does higher education look like? DEI has been restored as the central administrative and ideological pillar of college and university life. Institutions have once again made race and gender the focal point of […]
The young man holding an electric guitar on stage at the Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio earlier this summer looked briefly thoughtful. “Well, I’ve played some of my originals,” he said, “and I thank you for the response, but we have a big crowd here right now, so let’s do something that you all […]
At the end of a rocky summer for the economy, President Donald Trump’s administration scored a win with the August jobs report. It found that the labor market added 162,000 jobs, or triple expectations. Boasting that 98% of those jobs last month went to women, predictably due to the beginning of the school year, the […]
Civilians who have never served often overestimate the intensity and impact of military training. Possibly the phrase itself evokes a montage of movie memories: scenes of grueling obstacle courses, brutal hand-to-hand combat sparring, or intense weapons qualifications. While military training sometimes doesn’t live up to pop-culture imagery in real life, the results can be dangerous when it […]
All traditions must be created. Conservatism, as we know it, is a tradition created after 1945. It rested on two pillars. Each was a synthesis, constructed for the needs of its time. Its ideology was the “Burke to Kirk” syllabus, a heritage of liberty from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk. Burke and Kirk were patricians, […]
It has been said that the reason women join book clubs is to be able to drink a few gallons of Chardonnay with some close friends. That may be so. But men, at least men my age, join a book club to grumble and complain and grouch about stuff. The actual book, which for the […]
The United Kingdom’s new policy of boycotting Israeli goods is not only discriminatory; it is disastrous. It will increase antisemitism, strain relations with an important ally, and do nothing to address the myriad problems plaguing the country today. On Sept. 8, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband gave a lengthy speech before Parliament calling for a […]
About 15 years before he made any feature films, the future leading French director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) tried to become a novelist. His timing could not have been worse. It was August 1944, during the Liberation of Paris. “The bullets were still flying,” Rohmer recalled, and he dared not look out his window, for fear […]
The ancient pagan world was full of human sacrifice. The most horrifying instance was child sacrifice. We got an inkling of this in this summer’s smash-hit The Odyssey, with the brief depiction of Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter for favorable winds. One of the most important changes that occurred from the pagan to the monotheistic, Judeo-Christian […]
