JFK's grandson Jack Schlossberg launches House campaign to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler in Manhattan district, promising fresh energy in Washington.
Progressive activist Katie Wilson, who credits her parents’ financial help for allowing her to run, may soon replace longtime Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell after a razor-thin election.
Back in the ’80s, the film critic John Simon devised a classification system that neatly explains why Woody Allen’s comedies charm disparate audiences. “A highbrow moviegoer can laugh,” Simon wrote, “a middlebrow, empathize; a lowbrow, gape, awestruck.” Something similar could be said about the appeal of Dan Brown’s novels. The highbrow can chuckle condescendingly at […]
Rob Reiner’s directorial debut, the cult classic 1984 comedy This Is Spinal Tap, succeeded because the fake British band of the title — singer David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean), guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest), bassist Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer), and a rotating cast of doomed drummers — was a dead ringer for any number of […]
At one point in his recent interview with Bari Weiss of The Free Press, Woody Allen insisted that his works were, at best, weakly autobiographical. “The characters in my movies, yes, have certain traits and certain obsessions that I have. But in life, they’re within normal bounds, they’re in rational bounds,” Allen told Weiss. “The […]
HBO’s Task is one of those shows that vanishes from memory the moment one stops streaming it. Even the name is forgettable, as I found to my dismay when trying to discuss it with friends. Tarp? Trap? Take? Oh, why bother? It’s the one with the guy from Zodiac and the Avengers films. Max something. […]
More than any other issue, family formation is fast becoming the defining factor between Democrats and Republicans. As an Institute for Family Studies report recently showed, the higher the support for President Donald Trump in any one county, the higher the fertility rate was likely to be in that county. Specifically, the top 20% of […]
In quintessential Howard Lutnick fashion, the commerce secretary forced the White House to spend 24 hours performing cleanup after his comments about changes to the H-1B visa program for skilled foreign workers. Lutnick had insisted that President Donald Trump’s new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas was not just an annual charge, but one that would […]
The symptom of a cultural illness is often also a cause of that same illness. For example, violence begets distrust, which begets violence, and poverty begets ill health, which begets poverty. And as it turns out, childlessness begets perpetual adolescence, which begets childlessness. This vicious circle has been elucidated in, of all places, a research […]
Sure, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) may be transitioning California’s electric grid to less reliable energy sources and forcing people to buy electric vehicles, but at least he promised to help lower electric vehicle costs for Californians. He isn’t going to keep that promise, of course, but it’s the thought that counts. Upon taking office, President […]
Is the United Kingdom really poorer than Mississippi? Have the Brits truly sunk to the point where, if they were to join the United States, they would be the 51st state out of 51? Douglas Carswell, director of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy, first made this claim in 2023. A Conservative and then UK […]
Sometimes, the jokes write themselves. If you were a low-grade comedy writer with a chip on your shoulder and the same liberal opinions as everyone else you know, you might fantasize about a president who came down a golden escalator getting stuck going up an escalator at the United Nations building and then, as a […]
The collapse of community and the crisis of belonging comprise the biggest stories of the past 50 years. In 2000, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community sounded the siren on this crisis — the long-term decline of “social capital,” as author Robert Putnam put it. If you read the book closely, you […]
Responding to Nazi Germany‘s aerial bombing onslaught against European cities during World War II, Arthur Harris, commander of Britain’s own aerial bombing forces, invoked a biblical quote. Harris warned that the Nazis had “sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.” The Nazis did reap the whirlwind of their unprecedented aggression. […]
President Donald Trump rightly lit into the United Nations on Sept. 23, noting that instead of acting effectively to end wars, all it does is “write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up.” That day, after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump came out with his strongest statement yet […]
