“Winston Churchill appeared to me,” Charles De Gaulle wrote in 1959, “from one end of the drama to the other, as the great champion of a great enterprise and the great artist of a great history.” Churchill was not only the author, both literally and figuratively, of a great history, but he has also been […]
Lawrence of Arabia: My Journey in Search of T.E. Lawrence is the first biography I’ve read in which the author explains what it’s like to kill a man: “I had often shot at people hundreds of yards away — vague shapes behind rocks who were busy firing back — but never before had I seen […]
Colorblindness, not the ophthalmological condition but the notion of aspiring to treat people as individuals, without regard to their race, has taken a beating these past few years. Prominent left-wing thinkers such as Ibram X. Kendi, and “anti-racist” training sessions based on their work, have painted this ideal as nothing more than a way of […]
The George W. Bush era is back, at least in some cultural sense. On retail playlists in America’s hipper precincts, the top 40 hits of the 1980s and 1990s are replaced by indie rock from the halcyon days of Pitchfork. The vapid, hot-person romantic comedy sits perched once more atop the box office. Waistlines have […]
What is the plot of Expats, Amazon’s flawed but intriguing new Hong Kong-set limited series? It depends on whom you ask. For the NPR crowd, the show plumbs the “lived experiences” of wealthy foreigners and their servants, meanwhile considering how “feminism [can] undermine issues of race and class,” as creator Lulu Wang recently told the […]
Bear Cave, in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, bills itself as a “man store,” selling great items for men who don’t consider masculinity to be toxic. I bought a few civilian-issue field rations there: chili-mac, penne with vegetable sausage crumbles, and cheese tortellini. I thought about the strange culture surrounding military field rations, beginning with the name: […]
You would think the Nevada State Education Association, the state’s teachers union, would be concerned about raising literacy rates, improving academic outcomes, and generally being good teachers. Instead, the union’s affiliated super PAC is spending its financial resources on suing the state of Nevada for striking a deal with the Oakland Athletics to build a […]
More than 60 women have had their phones and sometimes purses snatched by thieves on mopeds in recent weeks in New York City. Just last week, the New York City Police Department released surveillance video of a 52-year-old woman being dragged violently by thieves on a scooter as they robbed her of her bag, phone, […]
Rep. Jaime Raskin (D-Md.) said that President Biden’s handling of classified materials is an “ocean away” from former President Trump’s, which he called “deliberate.” During his appearance on CNN on Thursday, shortly after the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 388-page report, the top Democrat on the Oversight Committee was asked to share his thoughts...
President Biden on Thursday confused the leaders of Mexico and Egypt during a press conference in which he forcefully rebutted a special counsel report that offered a harsh assessment of his memory and recall abilities. Biden delivered remarks from the White House in which he sharply pushed back against conclusions from special counsel Robert Hur...