Finally able to take my first post-lockdown trip abroad, I booked a ticket from my nearest international airport, Oslo, to my longtime default holiday destination, Amsterdam. I had no agenda; I just wanted a change of scenery. At the airport…
Madrid could be compared to a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who is always waiting for you, just in case you change your mind. An old rock song says, “Ah, no, without living in Madrid, you wouldn’t understand.” All those European countries where…
The narrative on COVID-19 is set: lockdown forever despite the evidence, stay inside and isolate no matter how anti-scientific and arbitrary the public health guidelines may be, and definitely do not ask why you have to do anything you are…
Last year, we began what was supposed to be a short lockdown to flatten the curve of COVID-19-related hospitalizations. It’s a year later and we are still mostly locked down. This past year has been particularly hard on young adults,…
If anyone ever wondered about the consequences of electing grossly incompetent Democrat leaders to office, one need not look any further than Washington, D.C. Along with Democrat-run New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis, our nation’s capital has declined…
A lot has been said about the harm to people resulting from government lockdowns imposed in the name of fighting COVID-19. Lockdowns, however, aren’t the only misguided policies that we’ve had and continue to endure because of this pandemic. In…
When the Republican governors of Texas and Mississippi announced that they planned to lift their statewide COVID-19 restrictions, including mask mandates, President Biden accused them of “Neanderthal thinking.” Yet, despite the president’s repeated assurances that his coronavirus policies would “follow…
It has now been nearly a year since “public health experts” began appearing on television talk shows insisting that, to survive COVID-19, the nation would have to pursue unprecedented mitigation policies. They told us that our salvation required draconian measures…
America has grappled mightily with its attempt to understand how our self-styled elites see themselves. Trying to manage an official spending indiscretion, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham inadvertently has revealed it: they think they’re rock stars. During the pandemic,…