My husband and I have been scoping out the housing market for the past three years, hoping for the right time (and price) to buy our first home. But like many young people, it seems we’ll be waiting a while yet.
You are familiar, perhaps, with those literary questions that are now ubiquitous on social media: Tolstoy or Dostoevsky? Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre? Bret Easton Ellis or Jonathan Franzen? The Iliad or the Odyssey? My answers, until recently, were: Both, Jane Eyre (I am a bit of a contrarian), Ellis, and the Odyssey. After finishing Robin Lane Fox’s magisterial Homer and His Iliad, I have come to see the error of my ways. The answer to that last question must be the Iliad.
How do you know if someone you’ve just met went to Harvard? They’ll tell you in the first two minutes. I plagiarized that joke from the English original about the false modesty of people who went to Oxford. Plagiarism is allowed at Harvard. Its president, Claudine Gay, is a serial plagiarist, but she still has her job. Like laws in the real world, academic rules are for the little people.
Jewish day schools in the U.S. are dealing with an influx of Israeli students who have left their country amid the war with Hamas while also caring for American children who feel close to the conflict. Some of the schools are offering Israelis free tuition and help navigating their trauma and language barriers. Many...
Outsider presidential candidates are vying to appear on as many ballots as possible before November, hoping to qualify in enough general election swing states to complicate the path for President Biden and former President Trump. The battle for the ballots is underway as the race among incumbent-challenging Democrats, independents and third-party candidates has frustrated those...
Republican presidential hopefuls are facing a fresh slate of debates next month, coming just days ahead of critical nominating contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. The three debates, hosted by CNN and ABC News, offer some of the last opportunities for candidates to boost their profile in early-voting states against front-runner former President Trump. But the...
The Biden administration is investing billions in passenger rail, giving a boost to a potentially important tool for mitigating climate change. However, significant hurdles could slow efforts to get more rail online. Last week, President Biden announced $8.2 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for 10 passenger rail projects, including what the White House described as the “first world-class...
A key holdover from the Trump presidency could give President Biden a huge boost as he seeks reelection. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell looks to be on the cusp of pulling off a “soft landing” of the economy, after inflation roared to a four-decade high last year. The Fed’s series of interest rate increases, which...