They’re predicting days of extreme heat back home, and I know what’s coming. As a writer, my calling is to focus on what’s truly important for world peace, so I want to head off the disaster and make things clear…
You know, once in a while it almost seems like the media, particularly the New York Times, aren’t consistent about the things that outrage them. Exhibit A: On April 18th, a Wall Street Journal review of An Abundance of Caution…
Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives By Michael Joseph Gross (Dutton, 480 pages, $35) I was never an athlete. Or at least I never thought of myself as one. If you were a boy in Queens when…
Americans don’t just drink coffee — they exist on it. The United States is the world’s largest coffee market, valued at over $100 billion. More than two-thirds of adults consume it daily, with this figure rising sharply— 37 percent more…
When Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya challenged COVID lockdown orthodoxy in 2020, critics glued posters of his face across the campus — which he saw as an incitement to violence — and colleagues tried to marginalize him for spreading misinformation. It…
Despite massive popular support, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. faced mounting criticisms from both Republicans and Democrats during his confirmation hearings for Sec. of Health and Human Services this week. Kennedy sat for two hearings — one on Wednesday with the…
Life in Ancient Troglopolis was hard. I remember it well. Like it was a hundred million years ago. You’d wake up in the morning, brush the leaves off you, regain consciousness, open your eyes, and find that your best friend…
As it has in the past, the New York Times published a recent article that attempts to drive a wedge between the factions of the wide tent movement formed by the alliance between Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr….
Rent-seeking describes profit-seeking through the manipulation of the regulatory or legal apparatus rather than by competing with others in the marketplace. Cronyism is a common form of rent-seeking, as demonstrated by the Solyndra fiasco. When the California-based green energy start-up company…
