DHS reports over 2.5 million illegal immigrants left the U.S. since Trump returned to office, with border crossings down 93% and major drug seizures up.
“There are some ideas so absurd,” George Orwell is alleged to have said, “that only an intellectual could believe them.” Intellectuals, the British writer noted, were key to the ascent of some of the most destructive ideologies known to man. But there’s another truth, often overlooked, that helps explain their ascent: privilege. More often than […]
Holidays are nothing but traditions, and traditions should not be broken or changed lightly. Since before this magazine took its current form and name, it has been a tradition of the Life & Arts section to publish a special Christmas Books issue each December, decked with readerly riches that, along with being edifying reviews, might […]
Every time I resolve to read through a lengthy work of literature, I am reminded of the funniest scene in Temporary Kings, the penultimate book of Anthony Powell’s 12-volume novel cycle, A Dance to the Music of Time. A wealthy industrialist is informed by his doctors that he has less than a year to live. […]
Buon Natale! Some people may know that’s the Italian phrase for “Merry Christmas.” Others may think it’s a Nat King Cole song from 1959. On Wednesday, the world-famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting, which has Italian roots, was held in Manhattan. Another Christmas tradition is the legendary Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli’s annual Christmas season performances […]
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb’s Doing Great Harm? isn’t another anti-woke broadside. It’s something rarer: a first-hand dispatch from a man who spent half a century inside the medical establishment, watched it lose its bearings, and decided to do something about it. The story begins with his own cancellation at the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and […]
In Dealing with Feeling, the latest work of speculative fiction by Marc Brackett, the fantasy is simple: What if, at long last, we could tame the human heart? What if we overcame “the biggest obstacle to achieving our best selves” by developing “care and compassion for ourselves”? What if we could “gain control over our […]
The Walt Disney Company has released some of the world’s finest animated short films and movies for over a century, including Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts, Mickey Mouse‘s first appearance in Steamboat Willie, and popular films such as Fantasia, Snow White, and Pinocchio, as well as more recent releases, such as Frozen and Moana. Not […]
Along with the Parks Department and the Department of Transportation, the Conservatory is proposing not just giving e-bikes a permanent OK to barrel around...
Billionaire George Soros backed scores of elected DAs who effectively eliminated criminal justice, putting more criminals — even repeat offenders — back on the...
On Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office released the results of a covert test that found a jaw-dropping 90% of fake applications were approved without...
