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What’s Missing from Journalism: Journalists June 27, 2024
The otherwise insipid Peggy Noonan has diagnosed the problem with journalism today. It doesn’t have any journalists.It’s a problem for both the left and the right....
Renewing the Republic June 26, 2024
The United States Constitution is under attack—again. The chorus of critics—including prominent law professors, journalists, political scientists, and politicians—seems to grow louder daily. They call it a broken relic, standing in the way of further...
The WNBA Needs to Gamble Big on Caitlin Clark June 26, 2024
Caitlin Clark isn't the best player in the WNBA — going purely by the numbers, she’s perhaps the league’s fifth or sixth best guard — but there's no denying she's the most marketable. In a league where revenues lag significantly behind the men’s NBA,...
A Reading Life June 25, 2024
Today would mark my father’s seventieth birthday. We’re all here on a limited warranty, he’d often say, and his expired two years ago this summer. But throughout his life, he never stopped reading, collecting books on wide-ranging subjects from “Pist...
“The Bikeriders” Lends a Wild Bunch a Mythic Grandeur June 21, 2024
Authenticity is a feeling and investigative fervor is an attitude. The Italian neorealist classics bear the marks of the journalistic research on which they rely, but journalists rarely feature in the action. The whole truth of even an instant is vas...
Tut’s Treasures Up Close June 21, 2024
Residents and visitors to the nation’s capital can find a perfect escape from the summer heat—and hotter politics—by traveling back in time 33 centuries to re-live one of the most spectacular archeological finds in history.“Tutankhamun: His Tomb and ...
A Gen-X Sense of Risk Is Needed June 20, 2024
In his recent book The Amphibious Soul, filmmaker and journalist Craig Foster offers a remedy for depression, anxiety, and the lonely—often disconnected—feelings that plague today’s chronically online culture. We must return to nature: swim, take hik...
Heterodox and Loving It June 17, 2024
Stepping off a plane at Chicago O’Hare last week, part of me wondered what the hell I was doing there. I knew where I was headed—to the downtown Marriott on the “Magnificent Mile” for the latest conference of Heterodox Academy (Hxa), that motley crew...
For Love and Money, Married Dads Matter June 17, 2024
Father’s Day is an awkward moment for the apostles of what I call “family-diversity theory”—the academics, journalists, and activists who want us to believe that all family forms are equal. They are bent on convincing the American public that what ma...
Mama Swifties Need to Grow Up June 14, 2024
It’s been a bumper week for middle-aged journalists enthusing about Taylor Swift. Broadsheet music critics attending the Edinburgh leg of her ongoing Eras tour seemed positively high on second-hand oestrogen fumes as they filed their encomiums. And t...
Fleet Street Is Colonizing the American Newsroom June 12, 2024
While the US newsroom has been in steady decline for decades, the past year has been particularly rough. In January, 528 journalists were sacked; more than 100 employees were let go from the Los Angeles Times alone. Less than one year after its launc...
Shohei Ohtani Is the GOAT June 03, 2024
Just over half a century ago, Major League Baseball introduced the designated hitter rule in the American League, consigning pitchers to the bench for half of each game. This year marks only the third since the National League adopted the still-contr...
Sebastian Junger, Staying Alive June 03, 2024
Sebastian Junger has lived multiple lives and almost died in many of them. There was his accident while working for a tree-felling company that inspired him to research a book on dangerous jobs, which ultimately became “The Perfect Storm” (1997). The...
That's the Way It Was? March 01, 2023
If there was a golden age of American journalism it probably spanned the peak years of the career of Lance Morrow, a prolific magazine writer and essayist whose work appeared principally in Time magazine for more than three decades from the mid-1960s...
Tom Wolfe, 1930-Â?2018 June 08, 2018
The passing of Tom Wolfe last month at eighty-eight was met, as was appropriate, by an outpouring of affectionate commemoration. True, the praise, the enthusiasm, the fondness was here and there punctuated by some sniffy (though generally envious) bo...
My Lunch w/ Tom Wolfe: Ghastly Food & Gonzo Journalism May 16, 2018
Tom Wolfe wasn't wearing his trademark white suit when he took me to lunch at the Southampton Bathing Corporation. This would have been a disappointment if it were not that his chosen attire for a run to the beach was just as flamboyant. If I were ha...
