by | May 10, 2025

Few figures in modern intellectual life are as polarizing — and as paradoxical — as Sam Harris. As one of the “Four Horsemen” of the New Atheism movement, the perpetually perplexed-looking polemicist burst onto the scene in the mid-2000s. First…

by | May 5, 2025

Unreal. So, President Trump is planning for the decidedly traditional military parade in Washington on June 14. That date, of course, is Flag Day. But by the sheerest of coincidences that is also the 250th anniversary of the United States…

by | Apr 22, 2025

Amazing. With a clear display of exactly what’s wrong with the Washington Establishment “swamp”, over 200 people — in thoroughly and tellingly bipartisan fashion — have affixed their names to what they call “An Open Letter Opposing White House Retaliatory…

by | Mar 28, 2025

Has anyone ever pointed out the parallel between Howard Stern and Graydon Carter? Because when I read the latter’s just-published memoirs, When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures during the Last Golden Age of Magazines, the similarity jumped right…

by | Feb 25, 2025

I usually write here weekly, sometimes slipping in a second one when no one is watching. Yet, my regular weekly article last appeared here on Jan. 13, and I was preparing my next one for the occasion of the inauguration…

by | Jan 20, 2025

They didn’t like the way Donald Trump talked. They objected to his “character.” Trump’s tweets annoyed them. He lacked intellectual sophistication. Trump didn’t play by their Washington rules. He wasn’t “presidential” enough. Trump had the temerity to criticize their promotion…

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