

Just in case you were not already quaking in your fuchsia suede platform boots, the Paris fall/winter couture shows offer proof. To judge from the hemlines at notable houses like Chanel and Dior, we’re in for a rough economic ride….
America started anticipating the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization as soon as Justice Samuel Alito’s draft was leaked in early May. Public radio and media heavies sounded the tocsin for weeks in advance, but still had…
Dylan Matthews, writing in Vox, poses an excellent question: “Can randomly selected citizens govern better than elected officials?” Who knows? Maybe it’s worth a try. Whether you call it sortition or lottocracy, it’s a very old idea, dating back to…
In a recent New Yorker essay, staff writer Nicholas Lemann trembles at the thought of the end of affirmative action at the hands of a Republican-dominated Supreme Court. He assumes that non-whites (except Asians, of course) could never make it…
I am sad. Sad I am. I cannot read Green Eggs and Ham. The eggs, through green, were not free-range. And ham? Ask pigs. They think it’s strange. I thought the Cat was just a cat. Silly me, for thinking…
Every now and then insight strikes like a bolt from the blue, and suddenly everything is clear. That’s how it hit me on a recent rainy morning: Democrats have no faith in the democratic process. They seem to believe, with…
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu exhorts the reader to know the enemy. Those engaged in the latest attacks on the Federalist Society plainly don’t know theirs. Let me offer a little history lesson because, as the LCD Soundsystem…
Who knew film producer Michael Moore and President Donald Trump would find common ground on a major matter of public policy? True, the gentlemen have more in common than either would care to admit. Both are big white guys of…