SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (January 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘A Cellular Revolution’ – Long-overlooked molecular blobs are transforming our understanding of how life works….
Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are leading to a new understanding of the cell
FRANCE TODAY MAGAZINE (January 21, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Glorious Gardens of Normandy’….
The Winter Olympics is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year! Did you know the first Winter Olympic Games were held in France?
Discover the top 5 things to do in Bourges and beyond.
THE NEW CRITERION (January 19, 2025): The latest issue features…
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE (January 15, 2025): The latest issue features ‘A Clockwork Blue’ – How the left has come to excuse away and embrace political violence….
by Noah Rothman
Democrats displayed more depression than anger in the weeks following Donald Trump’s 2024 victory. Alas, partisans on the progressive left and their camp followers among conventional liberals could avoid succumbing to nihilism for only so long. An occasion to indulge their negative passions came along soon after the election in an act of cold-blooded murder on a predawn December morning in midtown Manhattan.
THE NATION MAGAZINE (January 14, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Jazz Off The Record’ – In the late 1960s, the recording industry lost interest in America’s greatest art form. But in a small, dark club on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, jazz legends were playing the …
Remembering Carter as we steel ourselves for Trump’s second inauguration.
Though he started by threatening Mexico, Canada, and China, Trump’s tariffs mean the US will drain Europe as Ukraine fades.
Recent events have shown that Trump does not have to impose a new regime of censorship if the press censors itself first.
When the magazine began covering jazz in the 1920s, it often struggled to catch the beat.
QUADRANT MAGAZINE (December 28, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Trump Takes Charge’…
Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States anoints him as “Disruptor in Chief”, a vital role with world-historical significance. Trump’s ascension to this position was presaged in Ayn Rand’s stupendous novel Atlas Shrugged (1957), whose central character, John Galt, confronts a similarly sclerotic America, which he sets out systematically to disrupt in a radical, transformative manner. This highly controversial novel is important in illuminating what is at stake at the cultural level in the struggle to come, and in emphasising the scale and direction of the challenges facing Trump, his administration and his supporters. Atlas Shrugged is also valuable because, together with Rand’s earlier novel The Fountainhead (1943), it offers in compelling fictional form a powerful, necessarily hyperbolic, statement of the philosophical values that must be reasserted to make America great again.
If Hillbilly Elegy was compulsory reading for observers of American politics wanting to understand Trump’s first presidency, Walter Isaacson’s biographical portrait of Elon Musk is mandatory holiday reading for those wanting to understand how Donald J. Trump turned so many critics into passionate supporters and won a resounding presidential vote in 2024, and to gauge how his nation-reshaping policies might play out over the next four years.
NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE (December 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘William F. Buckley Jr. at 100’…
An enduring fusion by Ramesh Ponnuru
Prose makes the man by Andrew Ferguson
WFB as pop icon by James Rosen
REASON MAGAZINE (December 20, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Maga Musk’….
Is Elon Musk a reactionary with a defective bullshit meter or the best part of the second Trump administration?
DOGE won’t necessarily have to kill any of Republicans’ sacred cows—but they will have to be put on a diet.
How a 1949 Supreme Court dissent gave birth to a meme that subverts free speech and civil liberties
How the U.S. military busts its budget on wasteful, careless, and unnecessary ‘self-licking ice cream cones’
The far right thrived in 2024, and the erosion of liberal democracy is the story of the century so far. It didn’t have to be this way By Cas Muddle
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