I had a nightmare. In it, Larry David, the Seinfeld writer reputedly worth $400 million, invited me to dinner at his place. A fan of the show, I was happy to go. I even brought a chocolate babka, a bottle…
editor’s note: The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg recently published an article describing how Trump administration officials somehow included him on a Signal chain of text messages that included plans to attack Houthi terrorists. But Goldberg himself mistakenly emailed the following…
It is quite possible to be well read and completely stupid. They are not incompatible. But, as a sociologist, let me tell you that people who still read, even as a gesture of resistance, have a greater chance of understanding…
We started 2024 using more pronouns than there are characters in the Chinese logograph system, with the imminent threat of the mandatory electric car, and with half the country trying to convince the other half that Joe Biden was so…
My relationship with drones oscillates between two states: hatred and extreme hatred. I consider that drone shooting should be an Olympic sport, I don’t see any need why people incapable of driving inside a single lane with their cars should…
If you have had even the slightest exposure to baseball news this month, then you undoubtedly have heard about the otherworldly exploits of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ designated hitter, Shohei Ohtani. If he wasn’t the biggest star in Major League…
It’s increasingly difficult to understand why any straight white male could remain a Democrat. Happily, there are fewer of these as time goes by, most being nimble enough to recognize aggravated misandry when they see it. But the remnant doesn’t…
“What my father said about businessmen applies to liberals,” said the late Robert F. Kennedy Sr. “They’re sons of bitches.” Kennedy’s son, RFK Jr., has reason to agree. For four years, liberals scorned him, smeared him, labeled him an “anti-vaccine…
Simply defined, meritocracy is an economic and political system where people achieve their positions based on merit. Merit is ascertained by a record of formal credentials and/or past performance which demonstrates such traits as intelligence, work ethic, ambition, creativity, vision,…
