When the New York Times profiled Obama staffer Ben Rhodes in 2016, Rhodes made no secret of his frustration with the media: “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old.… They literally know nothing.” But if there’s anything…
Imagine you walk into your local bank, check in hand, only to discover that the checking account you opened just a few weeks ago is inaccessible. It’s been restricted and marked for closure. When you ask why, the teller shrugs….
The beloved classic musical Mary Poppins was recently changed from a U (universal) to PG (parental guidance suggested) rating by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), causing backlash from movie lovers around the world. The movie, which was first…
Women between the ages of 20 and 40 can’t stop picking up a latte “because today was a hard day at work.” Or treating themselves to a donut because they finally started that work project they’ve been procrastinating on. They…
Do you, too, long for the good-old days when the philistines tearing down statues did so on their own dime and on their own time? “The National Park Service proposes to rehabilitate Welcome Park to provide a more welcoming, accurate,…
Well, of course. As someone who lives in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the nation’s fifth-largest state, this could not be ignored. President Joe Biden’s National Park Service, part of the Biden-run Department of Interior, had announced its decision to remove…
Our staunch ally, Great Britain, first known as “the sceptered isle” in Shakespeare’s Richard II, now travails against many tempests — domestic political instability, regret over Brexit, a degraded military, culture wars, denigration of the former Empire, and some diminution…
I was on a beach in Brazil two Christmases ago when I heard that Anne Rice had died suddenly of a stroke. The news had been posted on her son, the novelist Christopher Rice’s, Facebook page. I was shocked, though…
When Philip Roth died in 2018 at age 85, all eyes turned to Blake Bailey, his appointed biographer who’d been hard at work on a Roth biography already for several years. Roth fans such as myself looked forward to getting…
