Opinion

People are decreasingly literate and increasingly desperate. Pair that reality with a fast food coupon, and you have modern advertisement. For Jimmy John’s, sub sales are the goal of the beach read campaign accessed through its Summer Menu of Ultimate Temptation, or SMUT. Use a promo code to order one of the four items on […]

It’s been a dangerous spring for American Jews. The country’s anti-Israel movement has traditionally focused its ire on the Jewish state. However, adherents are now brazenly harming Jews, and a suspected Jew, in the United States.  Over seven weeks, Jews suffered three high-profile attacks. On April 13, the official residence of Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) […]

If you are a Generation Xer, or maybe even an older millennial, your perception of a possible artificial intelligence apocalypse is most likely defined by the Terminator movies.  In the first of many possible timelines, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s reprogrammed protector T-800 tells Sarah Connor that Skynet became self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time on Aug. 29, […]

Just two months after President Donald Trump began a brief detente with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, he’s ramping up his old pressure campaign. Although Trump has stopped short of reiterating his prior, but since-retracted threat to fire Powell, the president has teased announcing his nominee to replace him long before the beleaguered central bank […]

I am part of the repertory cinema scene in Los Angeles, that lonely confederacy of men in graphic tees, paying for parking just to watch movies you could easily rent on Amazon. So I speak from both authority and trial and error when I say the David Geffen Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion […]

Two important things happened on May 13, 2021. The first was that, according to a bulletin posted that day on the website of the American Hospital Association, “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today updated its interim guidance stating that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in […]

Paris is a city of great pleasures, but one of the best is sitting on the exterior terrace of a cafe, drinking something delicious, and puffing away on a cigar. It’s a pretty complete experience — two kinds of intoxicants entering the bloodstream, the bustle and hum of the city as it passes by, the […]

I’ve told you about U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Nick Mitchel, who earned his combat action ribbon on his first day in the war in Afghanistan. Months of regular combat, and then … Sometimes things happen in the military that seem more like a novel or a Hollywood movie than real life.  Mitchel, six other Marines, […]

Many political analysts did not believe Republicans could pass a single, sprawling bill encompassing much of President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda using the budget reconciliation process. The majorities in both Houses of Congress were too narrow and the coalitions too diverse to achieve agreement, they argued.  But Trump, with major assists from Republican leadership, continued […]

“All happy families are alike,” Tolstoy wrote, “but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Over the years, the famous opening line to Anna Karenina has gone from being a bold generalization to a dictum. Good writers since Tolstoy seem to have taken the great Russian’s declaration as a challenge to devise interesting […]

This all started 5,000 years ago. That’s when, give or take a millennium or two, the journey began, which ended with me writing and you reading these words in English. Retracing every last twist in the path from there to here, no doubt, would make for a gripping book. However, that is not the book […]

Near the beginning of F1, veteran racer Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) is forced to endure a brief meet-and-greet with Peter Banning, a cardboard-stereotype corporate villain played with relish by English stage veteran Tobias Menzies. “I’ve caught up on all the Drive To Survive episodes,” Banning says, and the audience is meant to understand that he […]