Opinion

He has leapfrogged governors, senators, and even a former vice president to third place in the GOP primary scrum.

Activities that were once a common right of passage risk becoming the preserve of the affluent and ultratalented.

Drinking well, and how we started measuring class from 'lowbrow' to 'highbrow.'

Few moments in history unite all mankind.

Women not only have the right to their own sex-exclusive spaces and activities, but the right to speak their minds whenever they damn well please.

Soda machines are simply the first of many things to be removed from the McDonald's dining room.

The notion that the pursuit of justice in this country is apolitical is legally and historically fanciful.

A game defined by accuracy spawns a movie in need of some.

A gently heretical Christian phenomenon.

An afternoon in front of NFL RedZone presents no obvious exit strategy.

History is a harsh judge, Julian Jackson’s book makes clear.

Wear neckties and get the business, or wear the ties and get the girls.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed this week that “there is precisely zero evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever” by President Joe Biden. The Associated Press asserted Republicans are “claiming without evidence that [Joe and Hunter Biden] engaged in an influence-peddling scheme.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” Perhaps this was true of Fitzgerald when he wrote “The Crack-Up,” his 1936 essay on how he lost the plot. Perhaps he had already lost the plot. Anyone can function while holding two opposed ideas at the same time. The easy way to do this is to deceive yourself.