Opinion

In the off chance you thought you were an OK person who did mostly moral things, there’s a whole new list of behaviors that you should feel bad about — beginning with the stuff you like to eat.

Nothing encapsulates the current state of “journalism” quite like attacking a child in order to attack a football team as racist and apparently getting your facts wrong in the process.

San Francisco’s downtown may be turning into a ghost town as businesses flee the crime and homelessness the "City by the Bay" has become synonymous with, but business is booming at the city’s private schools as no fewer than nine schools are undergoing expansions.

A backlash is growing against mandates forcing auto companies to make electric vehicles. Drivers now have enough experience to know that the vehicles are impractical, hideously expensive, and do not bring the environmental benefits claimed for them.

Defending his Napoleon from grumbles caused by early rumors of historical inaccuracy, director Ridley Scott snapped that “when I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the f*** up then.’” Scott had a point, or so it seemed. This is the man who made a movie about a gladiator whose death in the arena restores the Roman Republic. And in the words of Aristotle, “σπουδαιότερον ποίησις ἱστορίας ἐστίν” — “it slapped” (loosely translated). Not only is it always right first and foremost to judge a work of art on its own terms, but also Scott in particular has earned the benefit of the doubt many times over. So I set out to watch Napoleon not to carp about whether he had really fired cannon at the Pyramids during his invasion of Egypt but to see if it was good.