For at least the last 20 years, politicians in Washington, at the behest of green energy groups, have spent some $100 billion of taxpayer money to fight climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. How is that going for us so far?
I regard my hometown of Palo Alto — once a sleepy middle-class suburb, now Silicon Valley’s globally renowned epicenter — with a mix of ambivalence and affection. Malcolm Harris, the author of the 700-plus page tome Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, graduated from the city’s public high school a few years before I did. He and I both became writers, a relative rarity in a region built around science and engineering. But Harris regards Palo Alto with something it would be fair to describe as fanatical hatred.
Of the unmaking of great books, there is no end. Such is life. Only in fiction does the plot resolve in a tidy closing of narrative threads. Life is messier. If it does not dribble to a close, it ends with banging and whimpering. The "Great Books" course, a one-stop humanities shop, was born at Columbia University in 1919. After 1968, the banging and whimpering of the culture wars sent enrollments into decades of decline. This week, the New Yorker announced that enrollment in humanities courses at Ivy League colleges is dribbling to a close.
The news website Semafor launched in 2022 amid great fanfare, promising to “fix the crisis of trust in the news” by delivering a unique blend of fearless and insightful journalism.
BALTIMORE — Republicans have “misplaced priorities” when it comes to education, as the GOP seizes on what they see as a winning issue ahead of next year’s election, according to one House Democrat. Republicans for months have leaned into issues like parental rights and school curriculums, making strikes to brand the Democratic Party as one...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Thursday that it will require Norfolk Southern to test for dioxins in East Palestine, Ohio, in the wake of last month’s train derailment. The railroad company will also be required to conduct a background study comparing dioxin levels in the eastern Ohio town to those in other areas,...
A bill proposed this week by a Republican state senator in Florida would require bloggers who write about Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), his Cabinet officers and members of the Florida legislature to register with the state. Bloggers who receive compensation for a given online post about an elected state officer would have to register with...
Local California officials are pushing to name a Sacramento skatepark after Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Sacramento native who was fatally beaten by Memphis police in early January. The Sacramento Parks and Community Enrichment Commission is set to vote on Thursday to refer the proposal to the city council for renaming the Regency Park skatepark as...
Disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of killing his wife and son after a multi-week double murder trial culminated in just a few hours of jury deliberations. Prosecutors argued that Murdaugh, 54, killed his wife Maggie, 52, and their son Paul, 22, on their rural Colleton County property back in June 2021 to distract...