Who’s right in the 2020s?
The American tradition of fair opportunity has been breached in our Gilded Age more than honored
Paywall
Thursday
Burning Christianity
Europe’s churches are under attack
Tuesday
Headlines of the coming year
Trump Tweet Hints At Displeasure With Lawyer ‘Rudy Is A Great Guy But He Is Making Trump Look Evil And Should Stop Going On TV NOW!!!’
A crime still in progress
The Russiagate whistleblowers have blown their cover
Saturday
Trump and the troops
The president’s weird popularity with the military shows few signs of diminishing
Tuesday
Bowl food: childhood memories have inspired a new craze for cookie dough
Hundreds of customers can be seen snaking around the block, eagerly awaiting tubs and cones of buttery, sugary batter
Monday
Christmas crackers: the tragic soul of Natalie Cole
Natalie Cole had an instant pocket pop career. Her family, she said, were like ‘the black Kennedys’; and look how the Kennedys turned out
The culture war is lost
Americans are learning to live in a post-Christian age
Sunday
For duck’s sake: New York’s foie gras ban is classic political posturing
The ban is about much more than animal rights. It is about punishing the rich. And it has to be, because the animal-rights case has no merit
Wednesday
Christmas greatness: a Yuletide sermon
Christmas is under attack. It has to be defended
Godfrey Elfwick’s Nativity drama
I’m dreaming of a woke Chr*stm*s
Tuesday
American English must be the most carelessly spoken and written dialect on Earth
Part of the problem is sheer mental and physical laziness
White Christmas: the magic of the festive drugs binge
Among partying druggies, the trust that has disappeared from every level of society is fully present
Monday
Star Wars: the force a-weakens
In space, no one can hear you yawn
The call of the wild
Pod help you in the wilderness
The joy of spending Christmas alone
I learned it’s frowned upon to say things like Christmas carols make me want to blow my brains out
Sunday
Let Utah be Utah
I dig the Mormons and even pull for Brigham Young University’s football team
Saturday
Digby Dent on lawn darts in winter
Taking a doughy-handed son of privilege and making him clubbable doesn’t happen by magic
My wild Key West
I have never been anywhere where the sea has such beautiful colors that change so rapidly
Monday
The real reason for college food fights
Scarcely a month passes without a food-related scandal causing uproar on campus
