The classification system for national security documents has been often misused
The Mar-a-Lago raid has finished off public trust in federal law enforcement
The two most striking features of the FBI’s unprecedented raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home are its bold intrusiveness and the public’s mistrust of the Bureau’s honesty and integrity. The Department of Justice could have used low-profile subpoenas to force Trump to turn over any documents, including the most sensitive ones. It didn’t. Instead, it…
Are perverts ruining the country’s proud tradition of naturism?
It’s not just 1970s-style omens; we’ve got plenty of new problems too
Dems know they now have about twelve weeks left to indict Trump or someone near him
The Mar-a-Lago raid could be a grievous blow to the Justice Department’s legitimacy
New Founding promises an alternative to a leftist vision of commerce
Expect the methane fee to increase power bills
Nance in Taiwan…her husband in court…what more could a reality show ask for?
The raid on Mar-a-Lago has been denounced by… Andrew Cuomo and Andrew Yang?
It’s the only logical explanation
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude reviewed
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed by Slavoj Zizek reviewed
The danger seemed to have passed but extremists continue to plague the world
As its institutional order rots, will the American right be ascendant?
The people are still here but their great cities have been swallowed by the jungle
Abortion once scrambled the country’s politics. It will do so again
Gen Z is realizing that approval from a fancy university isn’t the only path to success
A little ‘global warming’ has done wonders for England’s wine harvests
The people are still here but their great cities have been swallowed by the jungle
Postmodern man is characterized by an obsession with technique and technology
We live in the era of the overmarketed, oversweetened, overpriced and overexplained cocktail
The man at the posh London bar stood with our drinks but wouldn’t give them to us. He had a lecture to deliver first, for cocktail culture — or “mixology” as the craft is now known — is nothing if not didactic. As I looked enviously out at the people with pints of beer across…
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