The classics are having a moment. Not that they’ve ever fallen fully out of favor. But like any enduring cultural staple (Shakespeare, beards, long hairstyles) their fortunes wax and wane. Right now, they’re rising. Christopher Nolan announced that his next film, the follow-up to the blockbuster Oscar-winner Oppenheimer, will be an adaptation of the Odyssey. […]
When you get older, your life naturally splits into separate social compartments. You have your family compartment and your work compartment. Your friends are segmented into separate categories: old friends, college friends, and forgot-how-we-became-friends friends. That sort of thing. Most of us keep all of these social silos in separate group text chats. That’s the […]
For my entire conscious life, being a fan of the team known sequentially as the Redskins, the Washington Football Team, or the Commanders was cosmic punishment. Being a supporter of this team meant meditating on what communal sin or inner flaw one’s investment of time and emotion was paying for. Each failed season raised the […]
At age 69, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has an impressive, if mixed, résumé. But when you ask him what his biggest regret is, it’s not buddying up with Jeffrey Epstein or microchipping the populace with the COVID-19 vaccine (kidding!). His biggest failure, he told the Times last week, is his divorce. “That was the […]
Every time I open X, I’m greeted by a troth of gender war slop. Every day, it’s the same reheated arguments about “body count,” also known as the number of sexual partners, or whether a coffee shop is an appropriate first date. Sometimes, if I’m especially lucky, someone will blame the world’s declining birth rate […]
Something strange is happening in American media entertainment: Patriotism appears increasingly back in vogue. Recent years have seen the soaring box office success of Top Gun: Maverick (another movie is in the works) and streaming conquest of Amazon‘s violent but unashamedly patriotic series Reacher. But new patriotic additions hint that this isn’t just a blip […]
The former acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Billy Nolen said during an interview that President Trump made an “excellent choice” in choosing Christopher Rocheleau as the agency’s next leader. “It's a great decision. Chris, when I joined the FAA, was my number two. I think the world of him, and I think the President...
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the air traffic control staffing was “not normal” during the Wednesday night plane collision between an American Airlines passenger plane and an Army Black Hawk training flight in a Thursday report. “The position configuration was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” the FAA wrote...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Journavx (suzetrigine) oral tablets on Thursday as a first-in-class non-opioid analgesic to treat acute pain in adults. “Today’s approval is an important public health milestone in acute pain management,” Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, acting director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research said in a statement. “A...
Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) on Thursday grilled Department of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s history of claiming Black Americans have a better immune system than white people. Alsobrooks, one of only two Black women serving in the Senate, questioned Kennedy on what he meant regarding a 2021 claim that "we should...