Poland seeks answers from U.S. officials after the Pentagon canceled a planned armored brigade rotation, raising concerns among NATO's top defense spender.
Janet Malcolm is remembered for the clarity of her vision, and what she saw most acutely was our blindness. “The phenomenon of transference — how we all invent each other according to early blueprints—was Freud’s most original and radical discovery,” she writes in the opening pages of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1980). “The idea of […]
Liberal activist Kyle McDaniel might be an ideologue, a thief, and a cad, but give him this: He’s no hypocrite. McDaniel’s former employer has sued him for embezzling company funds and spending them on personal indulgences including strip clubs. But this melds pretty well his record in politics. When McDaniel was sworn in for his […]
Time magazine wants you to believe scientists have brought dire wolves back from the dead. Popularized by the HBO series Game of Thrones, dire wolves are the larger, whiter cousins of the modern-day gray wolves. They once roamed North and South America from approximately 150,000 to 10,000 years ago. According to Beth Shapiro, chief science […]
Someone missed the space travel invite, and she doesn’t seem happy about it. Actress Olivia Munn recently ripped into the all-female crew set to take an 11-minute flight through the Earth’s atmosphere on Monday in a Blue Origin rocket. “There’s a lot of people who can’t even afford eggs,” Munn complained on TODAY with Jenna […]
“The slower you do things,” a very wise person once told me, “the more time you seem to have.” This is excellent advice. I tend to rush through things — meals, museums, writing columns — on the mistaken belief that if I can just do everything faster, I’ll have more time for other things. It’s […]
In a recent column, I wrote about my friend, Lt. David Pingenot, who joined the U.S. Navy in 1965 partly to see a body of water larger than the Iowa stretch of the Cedar River. Pingenot became a technician for the sound surveillance system, which utilized a system of hydrophones that monitored sound channels in […]
BUDAPEST, Hungary — A dozen children sprint across the green lawn around the forsythia bushes, which are in full saffron-colored bloom. Sárkány rét (“Dragon Meadow”) is a beautiful park overlooking the Danube, with a view of Budapest’s famous landmarks: the Buda Castle, the famous parliament building, and the Basilica of St. Stephen. Gabor, a father […]
Among the major shocks of this month’s Trump administration announcement of massive tariffs slapped on dozens of countries worldwide lies a less prominent but arguably more important one: The entire tariff scheme may just have been produced by artificial intelligence. The fallout from Liberation Day — what the White House labeled April 2, the day […]
Most people would not think of New Mexico and “crime” in the same sentence without thinking about Breaking Bad. But Albuquerque is in the middle of a crime crisis that most people may not have heard about, bringing up all the same issues that have already been examined in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los […]
The Studio, Seth Rogen’s new auteur project on Apple TV+, deserves credit for openly bragging about how expensive it is. In its second episode, the real-life actress and director Sarah Polley schemes her way into getting Rogen’s Matt Rennick, head of the fictional Continental Studios, to spend $800,000 for the rights to a Rolling Stones […]
Should it be surprising that over half of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that assassinating President Donald Trump is justifiable? That’s what a new study from Rutgers University has found. According to the survey produced by the university’s Social Perception Lab that asked 1,264 U.S. citizens about their attitudes toward political violence, […]
Russian Jewish novelist Vasily Grosman, who was the first journalist to see the Nazi death camp Treblinka, once wrote, “Anti-Semitism is … a mirror for the failings of individuals, social structures and State systems. Tell me what you accuse the Jews of — I’ll tell you what you’re guilty of.” In On Democracies and Death […]
America is a rich country with a lot of poor people. Around 22 million people, nearly 1 in every 15 of us, are estimated to have assets worth at least $1 million. Our population of paper millionaires may have doubled between 2020 and 2023 alone. To fully savor this marvel of capitalism, money-printing, and inflation, […]
The Handmaid’s Tale burst onto the TV scene eight years ago and launched its sixth and final season earlier this month. From the start, it is an exercise in blunt-force storytelling, eschewing moral subtlety in favor of a didacticism intended to remind progressives of their inherent goodness. The Sons of Jacob, rulers of the Christian-nationalist […]
