The Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) system hasn’t gotten the memo. Last week, the county doubled down on its policy of requiring students to wear masks nearly every moment in schools despite Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order giving parents the…
Newly minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed nine executive orders and two directives that, among other things, ended a mandate that state employees be vaccinated and a school mask mandate. He embraced the radical idea of allowing parents to decide…
Jesus said to Peter, “Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it (Matthew 16:18).” Yet last week they sure as hell put a crack in it, at least in Miami…
The California trip didn’t get off to a good start. Going cattle class in jet, even just for four hours, is rarely close to comfortable. But this was the first time I had to do it with a mask on….
Nicholas Goldberg went to Harvard, and he’s more virtuous than you. Read any of his columns at the Los Angeles Times, where he is the current associate editor and former editorial page editor, and that message becomes clear. An especially…
Demoralization. Destabilization. Crisis. Normalization. Long-time readers of this column will remember those four words from an entry in this space exactly 17 months ago. That entry, a column entitled “Four Stages of Marxist Takeover: The Accuracy of Yuri Bezmenov,” was…
Besides reading the New York Times to make myself ashamed for being a journalist, one of my more unusual passions is collecting etiquette manuals. If possible one, two, three, or even four centuries old. I’d love to have one from…
Many Episcopal parishes followed COVID-19 precautions that were more rigorous than the norm: virtual-only liturgies that endured months after bans on religious services ended, attendance caps, and outdoor-only services. St. Luke the Physician Episcopal Church in Gresham, Oregon, did not…
“Everyone’s gone crazy,” said the mom standing next to me taking homecoming pictures of our kids. “I don’t know of it’s COVID, or anger at their home situation…” “Maybe it’s their time of social isolation,” I put in. “Maybe,” she…