“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.” So wrote Joseph Conrad in The Mirror of the Sea,

In September 2023, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stunned school choice advocates when he kicked out four private schools from the state’s

The bias problem with Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot was easy to see last summer when it started spewing antisemitism and calling itself “MechaHitler.” This

They never learn. In 1912, the United States extracted a huge indemnity from Nicaragua for having the nerve to request that U.S. companies pay taxes.

Nuclear power is inseparable from Donald Trump.  If you support atomic energy, you are also supporting the financial fortunes of the Trump family. Trump

You’re not imagining it. Everything costs more. Everything is monitored. Everything feels like it’s designed to take—from your wallet, your time, your

This past weekend, Trump threatened to escalate the War with Iran by destroying that country’s energy infrastructure starting, as he said, “with the big

When I heard the shocking news of Ernest Hemingway’s suicide on July 2, 1961, I was sipping a Pernod in a Paris bar/café named Storyville, named after the

The joint US-Israeli killing of Iranian leaders on February 28th marked the second time in a year that the United States had used negotiations as a decoy

Solar panel prices do not rise when the Persian Gulf gets bombed, whereas oil prices do. The space between tells you all there is of the world we are in

I have long been horrified by the unradical nothingness of our supposed “radical Left” academics, many of whom lined up behind the “neoliberal”

For more than a decade, troubling claims about César Chávez’s sexual abuse were already documented. Miriam Pawel’s 2014 biography, The Crusades of César

Masked federal agents kidnap a father as he waits to pick up his child from school. An ice cream cart is abandoned on the sidewalk, its vendor

Eighty years ago, Aldous Huxley wrote that “in the field of international politics the gravest decisions are always taken not by reasonable adults but by

For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing” as policy. Now, in its war

There’s been much debate on the left around the world about how best to respond to what appears to be rising antisemitism. What, if anything, is the best

There is an old and rather useful principle in political philosophy—useful, at least, to anyone not actively attempting to build a belief system out of fumes and grievances—that you cannot construct a livable house on a foundation of pure negation. You can…