We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week in Paris that you can’t walk out of the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral without passing a large gift zone near the arrow that points to Sortie de secours. And you can’t […]
At first glance, Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden, by the English writer Hockley Clarke, is quite unsurprisingly a nice little book about blackbirds. Namely, two birds, father and son, whose relationship with Clarke began one bitter night in 1962. It was Europe’s coldest winter in 80 years, and, to give the bird a […]
The Army announced Wednesday that its Janus Program has selected five companies to build nuclear microreactors at five military installations, committing up to $2.2 billion to an effort that could eventually put more than 20 reactors across War Department facilities. It is the latest evidence that President Donald Trump’s revival of American nuclear power could […]
President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland added a new security dimension to Iceland's EU referendum, with 275,000 eligible voters weighing in.
I first came across the theories of the Italian economist Mariana Mazzucato a few years ago during a debate with an anti-capitalist who argued that it was not Steve Jobs, but rather the government, that was responsible for inventing the iPhone, and that the same applied to all great inventions. Since I know the story […]
What do the films Barbie and Oppenheimer have in common? Yes, they were both released in the summer of 2023 and did blockbuster business. The joke at the time was that the two movies were huge cultural events despite being totally different. Barbie explores the meaning of a doll. Oppenheimer reveals the mind and soul […]
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report showing there were 2,339 reported overdose deaths in Virginia from December 2022 to December 2023. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of unnatural death in the state. As fentanyl flows over our porous southern border, the drug is stealing the lives […]
All you need to know about the legacy news media is that they hate you and think you’re a moron. Once you get this, the rest falls into place. Last week, New York Times writer and noted “man of the people” Paul Krugman wrote his umpteenth column accusing people of being confused about the state […]
A little more than a year after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) signed legislation adding Florida to the growing list of states with universal school choice, parents are voting with their feet and leaving public schools short of students. A recent report outlined the reality that declining enrollment, driven in part by the expansion of choice, could lead to the closure […]
According to the Wall Street Journal, European diplomats have claimed that US officials have been trying to talk Britain and France out of censuring...
The Biden Environmental Protection Agency awarded $50 million to the Climate Justice Alliance, whose website proclaims, “The path to climate justice travels through a...
The importance given to the recent anti-Israel student protests at Columbia University, on close inspection, turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.
Washington Monthly found: "In the vast majority of cases, campuses that educate students mostly from working-class backgrounds have not had any protest activity."
