Summer flavor pairings
How do we work out which foods go together?
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, style, travel, food and property, as well as where to go and what to see.
May 13, 2024
Eating my way around Helsinki
The city’s established and rising culinary stars are making a special kind of magic
May 10, 2024
Swapping aprés ski for aprés spa
A spa hotel: key to surviving a ski festival in your thirties
May 8, 2024
The best and worst of the 2024 Met Gala
Most of the fashion was yawn fuel
Why can’t America produce proficient teachers?
The sad state of teaching and learning in America
May 2, 2024
An explanation of the campus protests
Universities have consistently refused to discipline students who violate the their rules and trample the rights of fellow students
May 1, 2024
Choosing mob rule at UCLA
Have our universities forgotten their role in enforcing the social contract?
April 30, 2024
Banana skins from the UCLA encampment
Violence has been escalating as counter-protesters, also referred to as Zionists, clash with UC Divest members
The trouble with the elite American campus
The inexperience at the top is on full display
April 23, 2024
Herschel Walker goes back to school
The former Republican Senate candidate and NFL star is enrolled at UGA
April 22, 2024
On the ground at the People’s University for Palestine (formerly Columbia)
Many of the students are masked
April 21, 2024
The underrated charm of minor-league hockey
It doesn’t stem from the hockey or amenities so much as the simple human connections we all hunger for
USC’s suppression of the anti-Israel valedictorian is unacceptable
This is a textbook attack on the principle of free expression in the name of security
April 20, 2024
At Columbia… that’s all, folx!
There is an epidemic of distaff leadership in the elite precincts of higher education
April 18, 2024
President Biden’s latest abortion ad misrepresents Texas law
The ad twists the Zurawski story to promote a pro-abortion agenda at the expense of important medical and legal facts
April 16, 2024
Curb your lefty law professors
The Chemerinsky Dinner and the fate of legal academia
Reflections on two decades of yoga
Any time I want to, I can unroll my mat and deploy time-honored methods to slow down my breathing, calm my mind
Bringing back rhinos in Pakistan
A foundation set up by my grandfather is trying to reintroduce the greater one-horned rhinoceros to its ancient heartland
Bar-hopping, Venetian style
The wine and spritzes flow all day in Venice’s bàcari — traditional, low-key taverns — while bitesize, freshly — made cicchetti provide sustenance
How now, Hausfrau?
Meet Missy Baldino and her Austrian-style housedresses
How good is cod liver oil for mental health?
It is beginning to cross over from fable into the realm of scientific fact
April 9, 2024
Great Colorado restaurants, now with Michelin nods
Who joined the mile high club?
April 4, 2024
The secret history of the school choice left
And its surprising future
March 17, 2024
Want student loan forgiveness? Make universities pay
What the Biden administration’s policies gloss over is a fundamental economic truth: debt cancellation isn’t an erasure but a transfer
Notre-Dame rising
The rebuilt and revitalized Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris is nearly complete. Will it appease the traditionalists?
Montréal serves up a surprising array of off-season delights
The hardy Québécois have found ways to keep the bleakness at bay
My first family goose hunt
Conservation, it turns out, is addicting
How serious is the feral pig problem?
The pests are lucrative, at least for the hunting business
Wild boar: a nuisance and a delicacy
During the banquet, a loquacious local vigneron told me that he has had sangliers rush by him at dawn while he’s working in his vineyards