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‘Friends’ Review: People You Can Count On March 11, 2022
A social scientist runs the numbers on the friends you call when you’re in trouble—and everyone else....
A Vindication of the Real Gordon Gekko March 11, 2022
Kyle Smith reviews on National Review a film on Carl Icahn. Icahn is among the most famous activists investors of the 1980s, and is still, pardon the pun, active. For example, he acquired a stake in McDonald’s and challenged its governance, not becau...
A Dickens of a Year March 07, 2022
This year marks the 210th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, the most famous English author not named Shakespeare. It is impossible to say how many biographies of the man have been published, but there have already been two full-scale works...
Harry Jaffa’s Lesson for the GOP September 18, 2021
Extremists are the greatest danger to America, according to the Biden administration and many media outlets, and come in only two varieties: Islamic terrorists and white supremacists.Leftists are confident, even sanctimonious, in their extremism, whi...
Was Occupy the ‘Beginning of the Beginning’? September 18, 2021
Ten years ago this month, the story goes, a few dozen activists squatted in Zuccotti Park, near Wall Street. Three years had passed since Barack Obama declared “the audacity of hope”; now came the autumn of despair, fury and hand-painted placards. (“...
A Natural History of the Heart September 13, 2021
In April 2014, nine blue whales perished off the shores of after getting trapped in the ice packs of the Cabot Strait. One of these leviathans, measuring 76 feet long, eventually turned up in the frigid waters of the tiny outport of Rocky Harbour. A ...
When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People September 13, 2021
The reputation of science had been taking a bit of a battering before its successes in fighting the global pandemic raised its esteem. Could the reputation of philosophy benefit from a similar upswing, thanks to a very different form of contagion? Ac...
O. Henry: 101 Stories September 03, 2021
Before he was known as O. Henry and the author of “The Gift of the Magi,” William Sidney Porter wrote another yarn about a husband and wife who miscommunicate. Instead of trading Christmas presents in a touching tale of self-sacrifice, they exchange ...
