As Poland marks its National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Volhynia Massacre on July 11, history and politics have once again moved to the forefront of Polish-Ukrainian relations. Poland and Ukraine have forged one of Europe’s most consequential strategic partnerships since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, but their latest dispute over historical […]
For decades, academic and popular histories have treated political violence as a phenomenon defined largely by its distance from the naturally occurring liberal center. “The rise of the right” is cast in apocalyptic terms — more Darth Vader than ordinary politics, its actors, many of whom bear little resemblance to traditional conservatism, depicted as aberrations: […]
Memorial Day is behind us. It-girl clothing brands recently acquired by private equity firms are making a killing on ’90s-inspired viscose satin slip dresses with a complex relationship to undergarments. A certain kind of conscientious woman, between the ages of 25 and 38, with a remunerative project manager job and a reasonable skincare regimen, is […]
Few contemporary writers are as adept as Ann Patchett at opening a novel. Her first chapters are alluring invitations, intriguing introductions. Bel Canto (2001) starts with a bang: In an unnamed South American country, a grand party is thrown in honor of the president of an electronics company, but after a renowned soprano has finished […]
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, it only seems right to pay reverence to the gentleman farmer from Mount Vernon who helped make this nation great. This, of course, refers to the “father of his country,” George Washington. He was a highly respected and beloved general, who took a ragtag outfit and turned them into […]
A week after the most recent killing of an American by an illegal immigrant truck driver, the Trump administration announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will be deployed to truck weigh stations nationwide in a coordinated effort to get the more than 200,000 noncitizen truck drivers, many of whom can’t speak English, off the […]
Mayor Zohran Mamdani vowed he’d keep to six minutes in announcing his new faster-bus initiative — but damningly couldn’t even deliver that, running overtime...
July 10 marked the last day of the Great American State Fair, an event meant to bring the country together, but one Democrats used to try to tear it apart. The fair was set to honor the uniqueness of each state, but multiple Democratic governors refused to allow their states to participate. Their attempts to […]
