Distrusting the Chinese has been the smartest approach since roughly 1949. I still don’t know why we keep calling what…
We are five days away from the start of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be held in the…
I’ve come to write on the beach. I suppose exams are over, and this place feels like an anthill of…
My most loyal readers already know that, as penance for my many sins, I occasionally read the New York Times….
Election campaigns are fertile ground for lies to flourish. Politicians are only allowed to lie on the campaign trail because,…
There is a growing and worrying market for fake quotes. I have friends who have tattooed their backs with a…
If you want to wreck things in a spectacularly absurd way, just put Zohran Mamdani in charge. He has now…
Reading aloud has become an act of punk rebellion. Something like listening to a recording of The Clash, flirting in…
Many things changed after the pandemic. The butterfly effect now applies to face masks. Ornithologists fall ill aboard a cruise…
I’d be inclined to laugh off the hantavirus issue if it weren’t for the fact that, by one of those…
