Surprise! BYU found no evidence of racial slurs at volleyball game
The story warranted immediate skepticism for a number of reasons
Spectator Life
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September 8, 2022
College condemns professor who celebrated Queen Elizabeth’s death
Carnegie Mellon’s Uju Anya called the Queen the ‘chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire’
The Trinity School gets its anti-woke comeuppance
One of its directors calls for vigilante action against white Republicans
September 6, 2022
Ted Cruz is right about ‘slacker baristas’ and their college debt
Not everyone is going to ‘make it’
September 4, 2022
Barbecue is America’s food
Firing up the grill one last time this Labor Day
September 1, 2022
A volleyball player’s hate crime accusation falls apart
Where is the evidence of Duke’s Rachel Richardson being racially abused during a game?
August 31, 2022
Why I left public education for a Christian school
Not because I couldn’t ‘handle it’
Chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer’s fall from grace
It was both acute and irreversible
August 30, 2022
Stop telling people not to go to college
We need to be careful about glamorizing manual labor
From Moscow to Kyiv and back again
War and revolution have trailed me like banshees
Eating well at a time of inflation
Cooking is a duty, a vocation and an adventure, requiring grace and wisdom as much as ingredients and recipes
On constant gardening
Nature, in the firm hands of the gardener, is trained up to produce food for people
A Joycean odyssey
In search of the Irish author’s Swiss resting place
Spending Labor Day on the Cape
This time of year always makes me nostalgic for the New England coast
August 26, 2022
‘Oxford or Cambridge?’: the vacation edition
Visiting university towns for a uniquely civilized — and wholly British — experience
August 24, 2022
Biden’s unforgivable student loan authoritarianism
The president doubles down on a fundamentally anti-democratic approach to governance
August 22, 2022
The lost boys of Covid
School closures have set off a devastating domino effect
August 21, 2022
Universal school choice would transform real estate
It would help the poor the most and greatly relieve the middle class
August 19, 2022
Vintage motorcycles and human nature in Ohio
What happens at Vintage Days is an expression of the full range of human nature
August 11, 2022
Them dog days
Summer in broiling Washington reminds us that hard work isn’t everything
August 9, 2022
Is Papa John’s no longer God’s pizza?
Its fired founder says the chain has gone liberal and godless. We tried a slice
August 8, 2022
A driver’s license, if you can keep it
Americans should embrace more personal responsibility on the road
August 4, 2022
Don’t blame Victoria’s Secret
It isn’t their fault some shoppers can’t distinguish between fantasy and reality
August 1, 2022
Why I joined the college exodus
Gen Z is realizing that approval from a fancy university isn’t the only path to success
The school choice moment is now
Republicans must make education a top issue in the midterms
Christ stopped at Oberammergau
The Passion Play was political, and not even particularly religious
My encounters with the Mayans
The people are still here but their great cities have been swallowed by the jungle
The little joys of growing corn in Connecticut
Plus a recipe for Saugatuck Succotash
Thai-celand: how southeast Asian cuisine took over Reykjavik
It’s up there with the best New York and London have to offer