Why is Generation Z so undersexed?
There is a girl on TikTok, a bleached-blonde New York transplant who just passed a million followers, whose videos I…
How Covid amnesia spread through the right and left
In August 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control released new Covid testing guidelines, which called for increased vigilance in…
What will the new Trump foreign policy look like?
A month after the election shock of 2016, CBS’s John Dickerson sat down with the ninety-three-year-old Henry Kissinger to get…
Donald Trump and the clash of realities
As Donald Trump marches to the Republican nomination a third time, Americans are divided into two radically opposed camps. On…
How low birth rates could threaten our civilization
The village we moved to in central Italy is lovely — old stone houses and olive trees on a hillside…
Meeting Eric Ripert, chef of America’s best restaurant
For Eric Ripert, cooking is like jazz. Ad-libbing, balance, motion. “One day the garlic is very pungent, one day it…
The car seat cartel
I work on the back deck and must work quickly while I have the midday sun. The mixing bowl holds…
My friends keep dumping me
T.S. Eliot was wrong. April is not the cruelest month — January is. It’s cold and bleak and days end…
An introduction to presidential grave-hunting
Where better to talk about dead presidents than over beer and wings at Jim’s Saloon in East Pembroke, New York,…
Britain’s economic pain started long before the recession
The Tories have had a tax problem for quite some time. But news of a recession at the end of…
The digital habit
In an era that claims to value the authentic, the direct and the natural, the word “processed” has negative connotations,…
Megève’s enduring magic
Kitted out in black Givenchy, huge sunglasses blocking out the snow glare, Audrey Hepburn is lunching al fresco in the…
Hamas can’t hide behind hospitals anymore
Israeli special forces are operating in Nasser hospital, one of the main hospitals in the city of Khan Yunis, where…
Eiffel power – France’s nuclear charge
21 world leaders pledge to triple nuclear energy capacity from 2020 by 2050
Plogging: Europe’s bizarre eco-friendly fitness craze
The first finisher crossed the line sweaty, tired and almost black with dirt, his white Decathlon shirt turned gray and his…
Tan Ikram and the corruption of the justice system
The case of the ‘paraglider girls’ just keeps getting worse, exposing a criminal-justice system that seems to have become riddled…
Mökki life and Moomin minutiae in Finland
Moomins are synonymous with Finnish culture, like saunas, porridge and mökki (summer cottages). The large-snouted white fairytale creatures feature in the Moomin…
Blind climate faith leaves us in the dark
The West’s Net Zero policies are the ultimate act of zealous faith
In search of the quintessentially British afternoon tea
It is a strange coincidence that both my sister and I, born and raised in Scotland, have married Americans. I…
The Long Room, a reliable Chicago bar with all the essentials
I was sipping a beer on the patio behind Ten Cat Tavern with my friend Charlie, debating which was the…
How to do St. Patrick’s Day like an Irish American
For a country like Ireland, as devoted to its faith as to a good party, the fact that St. Patrick’s…
Why has Vladimir Putin endorsed Joe Biden?
Who does Vladimir Putin want to win the US presidential election this autumn? Last night, the Russian president gave an…
Double Shot S2E3: Even music is racist… Alexander Voltz and Julian Gillespie
Composer and commentator Alexander Voltz discovered there is no escape from the Woke mind virus when he went to enter…
West’s moral ground sodden with tears for the guilty
If you want absolute proof that the West is built on Judeo-Christian principles, the unconditional absolving of Hamas after its…
The pension bomb facing Generation X
Happy birthday to me. Today I turn 48. I’m celebrating in an age-appropriate way: a trip to the physio for…
