A federal judge on Thursday rejected one bid by Donald Trump to throw out out his classified documents criminal case, and appeared skeptical during hours of arguments of a separate effort to scuttle the prosecution ahead of trial.
My first night as a dad is seared in my memory. I remember collapsing into a blue maternity room recliner and bawling my eyes out, overwhelmed by the dizzying mix of terror and gratitude that only parenthood brings. I was in awe at the physical feat my wife had just performed in delivering a human, […]
“Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” the most famous rhetorical question in English, is now retired upon finding an answer: Francesca Peacock. The reputation of Margaret Cavendish, the subject of Peacock’s debut book, was accustomed to attacks during and well after her lifetime. Her Restoration-era contemporaries deemed her unlearned and insane, and some denied her authorship […]
On Nov. 21, 1940, novelist Carson McCullers threw a party with the writers and artists she shared a dilapidated home with in Brooklyn Heights. It was a Thanksgiving party, a housewarming party, and a birthday party for the British composer Benjamin Britten, one of the residents of the brownstone commune. After a meal of turkey […]
Information and operational security is something this old soldier takes very seriously. That’s why this column is difficult to write. Faithful reader, because you peruse these hallowed pages in search of truth, I’m about to break omertà. I’m going to tell you about the shadow organization that’s infiltrated every branch of the United States military: […]
As publications designed to appeal to the young, the affluent, and the upwardly mobile, men’s lifestyle magazines have always had a liberal, cosmopolitan sensibility. People who join CrossFit gyms, buy designer pea coats, and winter on the Amalfi Coast (or imagine themselves wintering on the Amalfi Coast) aren’t in the market for lectures on traditional […]
The most important problem in most cities right now is crime. That is to be expected when you can’t even enjoy tacos in peace. Oakland is one of those cities synonymous with crime. Couple that with a pro-criminal district attorney who does not think doing her job of putting criminals behind bars affects criminals committing […]
Finally, something good to watch on TV again. Amid a sea of Disney-Marvel dross, the drip-feed of mediocre Netflix dime-a-dozens, and billion-dollar adaptations not worth the server space they’re housed on, in comes Shogun — an impressively grand but refreshingly human take on the final throes of Japan’s warring states era. Each of the major […]
By all available accounts, the Federal Reserve’s unilateral war against the worst inflationary crisis in 40 years is going precisely according to plan. The fastest monetary tightening cycle since the Volcker era in the early 1980s has succeeded in bringing down consumer price index inflation from the near-double digits to 3.2% as of this February. […]
When California voters were first sold on the vision for a high-speed train connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles back in 2008, they were told the 500-mile system would cost $33 billion and would be completed by 2020. Last week, the CEO of California’s High-Speed Rail Authority testified in Sacramento that a much smaller 170-mile […]