The holidays are messy. Families are messy. People are stressed and in perpetual pursuit of the recreated perfect memory that really was not but has become idealized. We do this to ourselves: debt, guilt, grief, depression, worry, frenzy, and then the lights go out, the trash packed away, and ...
An effective way of handing elections to right-wing Republicans is to label large blocs of voters as wrong by virtue of their gender, race, ethnicity, age. Those are physical characteristics, not walking opinions. Yet this self-destructive habit is routinely practiced by some on the left, ...
Institutional rot. That's the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic temperaments or alarmist analysis. One occasion for such judgments was the testimony of three presidents of eminent universities — Harvard, the ...
WASHINGTON — The days get shorter, darker, colder. This solstice season the descent feels more real. Then there's 2024 to brace for. It's all there in the midnight clear here in the heartbeat of the free world. We're lighting menorah candles and Christmas trees, but without much incandescent ...
I've been thinking about the Parthenon marbles too much lately, having imaginary arguments in my head with museum curators and conservative Britons about how overdue their repatriation to Greece is. That might make me sound a little nutty, but there has been, to be fair to me, a lot of media ...
For those dismayed at how many college and university students and faculty, even, or especially, at selective and prestigious institutions, have been cheering Hamas' Oct. 7 atrocities and calling, in only slightly veiled language, for the destruction of Israel and genocide of Jews, the question ...
Nikki Haley is the dark horse in the Republican presidential race that Democrats should watch closely as she gains ground by the day, hair flying with the wind. Brace for a "Hail Nikki" surge while former President Donald Trump's troubles with the law mount and his grip on reality loosens and ...
They came waving Palestinian flags and clad in the keffiyehs that have become a symbol of the Palestinian cause. Dozens of chanting protesters crowded the street outside Goldie, a vegan restaurant serving Israeli-inspired dishes in central Philadelphia, blocking traffic and chanting, "Goldie, ...
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." — Hosea 8:7 The debacle of the nearly 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan continues in Joe Biden's America today. This disaster began when President George W. Bush — stung deeply by the intelligence that he failed to ...
The government has a dilemma: It's pushing hard for fuel-efficient vehicles, but gas taxes pay for roads. There's an obvious fix, but are Americans ready for it? Granted, tax credits, subsidies and government mandates aren't delivering the electric-vehicle sales surge the Biden administration ...
