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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
