America should be more like West Virginia
Bette Midler and others slime the state as backwards but those who are from there know better
Spectator Life
An intelligent mix of culture, style, travel, food and property, as well as where to go and what to see.
Parents rise up against mandatory Covid vaccines for kids
Medical decisions for children should be made by parents, not bureaucracies.
The evidence is in: remote learning doesn’t work
So why are we using a relatively mild variant as an excuse to freak out and close schools?
January 10, 2022
Remote learning has failed our kids
A school social worker warns from experience about depressed students and dropouts working at McDonald’s
January 7, 2022
Release Novak Djokovic
End vaccine mandates for healthy athletes
How Education Week controls the classroom
I didn’t know our teacher training was a form of brainwashing
January 4, 2022
Ms. Work-to-Rule and our fading school standards
Covid conscious, allergic to academic rigor, the head of your local teachers union is in charge now
January 3, 2022
In search of Sisi
Sisi was the first royal celebrity of the modern age
Staten my preference
Staten Island offers the spiritual antonym to elitist performances such as the Met Gala and the Oscars that peddle a distortion of American life
How to survive eating out
The greatest human spirits would view the new era of show-your-papers dining not as a hardship, but as an opportunity
The Tudor roots of wokecraft
The Reformation was a top-down affair, an agenda imposed by a cultural and political elite
Are New England’s stone heaps Native Americans’ sacred ruins?
Native Americans are being exploited by self-interested settler-colonists — yet again
January 2, 2022
Making a raclette
One thing we all agreed on was cheese, cheese, cheese and more cheese — calories be damned
December 30, 2021
Exclusive: Georgetown’s Covid restrictions served with a side of hypocrisy
Another public health official flouts her own guidance
Anthropology has turned its back on its legacy
At its best, the discipline taught us that our follies are as universal as our aspirations
December 20, 2021
Pro sports can lead us out of pandemic insanity
Let asymptomatic sportsmen play
December 16, 2021
The NFL bends the knee to China
The league lectures Americans but cave to authoritarians abroad
Covid is no excuse to dress like a slob
Time to get rid of the ‘athleisure’ wear and start caring about our appearances again
I took Hillary Clinton’s Masterclass in ‘resilience’
So you don’t have to
December 1, 2021
Is woke Notre-Dame the future of Christianity?
The torched cathedral is being given a coat of secular modernist paint
November 29, 2021
The GOP must remain the party of parents
The Democratic motto could be ‘safe spaces in classrooms and rape in bathrooms’
November 25, 2021
Talking turkey with William F. Buckley Jr. on Quemoy
Chopstick diplomacy would not be enough now
November 23, 2021
The University of Austin: a meteor aimed at higher ed?
‘Liberal educators’ might sneer but they’re very worried
November 18, 2021
Ice fishing in the Arctic
The Russian ice fishing journey is a study in contrasts between the elements
Prague by design
The Czech capital may be a prisoner of its heritage, but it’s more than a Disney castle
What’s good from the goose
Goose used to rule the roost
I ate Audrey Hepburn’s kidneys
I had contemplated knocking on my famous neighbor’s front door and asking if she had any suggestions for cooking veal kidneys
There’s nothing ‘phony’ about the culture war
These battles, typically over race, sexuality and national identity, are defining issues for our time
November 17, 2021
The history of the American Memorial Chapel
The Chapel is dedicated to the 28,000 American people who were stationed on British soil and died in World War Two
