The Erie Canal at 200
The first spade hit the dirt on July 4, 1817, near the appositely named Rome, New York
Life
Tuesday
The problem with Greta Thunberg
Virtue-signaling doesn’t work
Tuesday
Palm Beach is stuck in a gridlock
For a brief time, from Trump’s election until Easter, real estate enjoyed a brief boom – but no more
The origin of Father’s Day
The holiday began in Washington State as a church service orchestrated by Sonora Smart Dodd
Remembering Jackson C. Frank
The folksinger’s lifeboat capsized far too soon
Is everything political?
The world is, always was and always will be largely ungovernable and chaotic
Tuesday
The rise of millionaires, valet parking and facelifts in Palm Beach
New-found popularity brings high-end problems
How Major League Baseball lost its soul
Homestand is the most anti-MLB but pro-sandlot and hick-circuit baseball book ever published
The sad decline of painting
Pick up a paintbrush in a state-funded art school these days and you’ll be shown the door
Wednesday
How Palm Beach became Wall Street South
No fewer than 250 financial firms have relocated here in the years since the pandemic
The importance of the Band-Aid
The graduation from boo-boo kisses to Band-Aids is one of the most underappreciated milestones in a child’s development
The dog that haunts Russ Benzin
Skipper was hyperalert, Russ vigilant but pensive
Why are Europeans so untroubled by their ignorance of America?
Romano Prodi charges Trump with having broken the rules of international diplomacy
Thursday
Trump’s security, dress codes and airport romance in Palm Beach
With Trump spending so much time Mar-a-Lago, there are good spin-offs and not-so-good spin-offs
Asteroid 2024 YR4 and the geekoisie
I went on a weeklong comets-and-asteroids-destroy-our-world binge
Why I won’t date younger women
I may be thirty-six on the inside, but on the outside I definitely look seventy
Baseball may be trapped in a two-party system
The sport braces for another Dodgers-Yankees scrum, a duopoly less about parity than power
Monday
Toby Young: love him or loathe him?
Everyone has at least one friend that none of their other friends can stand, someone you love but everyone else loathes
The controversy of Daylight Savings Time
Like so many intrusions upon our liberties, it was introduced to America by war
Why human history is fated to end in apocalypse
Whatever advances in the human condition will be made in this century will not be accomplished in the spheres in which previous ones have been achieved