Growing Through Grief

Gardening as creative redemption, consecration of time, and training ground for presence.

We Must End

The unwitnessed ‘safe’ supply of opioids.

Today’s Shoplifters, Unlike Victor Hugo’s ‘Misérables,’ Are Stealing More Than Bread

As theft gets decriminalized.

Britain Is Turning Into South Africa

From schools to prisons, our state is crumbling.

Frustrated Liberals Say Pierre Poilievre Is Crushing Them

And some of them are blaming Justin Trudeau.

Politicians Enjoy High Life

As families scrounge for food, rent.

Gender Ideology

What Canadian schools are teaching on LGBT topics.

The Biggest Killing Machine in Human History

Communist regimes always kill, but communist China has achieved a truly insane level of butchery.

The Shoplifting Epidemic Is A Sign

That we are on the verge of anarchy.

Job Growth in Government Sector Outpaced Private Sector

Since the onset of Covid.

Love Song to Costco

‘In the great halls of Costco, two of our greatest fears are assuaged — that of not having enough, and that of not being enough.’

The Road to Becoming Enough

I began, if not to turn away from the mythical notion of a man to ‘complete’ me, to accept that there was no love out there for me. I chose mountains instead.

What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing

While AI can speed up the writing process, it doesn’t optimize quality — and it endangers our sense of connection to ourselves and others.

The Atomic Disease

On Oppenheimer’s atoms in the body.

America’s Bee Problem Is an Us Problem

You may have heard America’s honeybees are dying. But what does that mean for the people on the front lines—and what could it mean for what ends up on your plate?

Chuck Palahniuk Is Not Who You Think He Is

Twenty-six books in, the author has made a career of writing about loners, misfits, and deviants. But the man behind these controversial and transgressive fictions is full of surprises.

Orange Is the New Yolk

On how the so-called farm egg and its yolk became unlikely fetish objects.

Here’s to Naps and Snoozes

American work culture, seeping around the globe, threatens to ruin the pleasures and benefits of public, communal sleep.

The Thing Itself

CS Lewis on what we long for in our existential longing.

An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship

Thoreau on the challenges and rewards of the art of connection.

The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes

The most overrated metric in movies is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip.

Senior Doctors Call For 24/7 Security

As ED crisis becomes ‘worst that we have ever seen.’

Scientists Working to Conceive

Babies in space.

 

UK Students ‘Ruthlessly Dumped’

As migrants get their luxury lodgings.

Why White Ethnics Left Newark

Viciously maligned as racists since WWII, nobody bothered to ask working-class whites why they left the cities.

Tamara Lich

Exposed the incompetence of the Canadian state.

The American Scholar

Emerson’s superb speech on the life of the mind, the art of creative reading, and the building blocks of genius.

‘Please Write Me’ She Scribbled on a Random Egg in 1951.

Someone just did.

Hemingway Survived Two Plane Crashes

A letter about them just sold for over $237,000.

What the Left Did to Our Country

Nothing good.

Higher Cost of Servicing Debt

Putting Canadian government in a bind.

Is Justin Trudeau the Worst Prime Minister in History?

Yes.

Dead Trees Around The World Are Shocking Scientists

Forests once deemed resilient are suffering surprising die-offs. To predict the fate of the world’s woods in the face of climate change, researchers need to understand how trees die.

The Last of the Fungus

A young scientist’s quest to transform a dying way of life.

A Montana Town Faces a Homelessness Problem Similar to San Francisco and L.A.

Missoula’s parks are full of people in tents. Moving them is hampered by a court ruling that has frustrated many leaders in the American West.

Shocks to the System

Don DeLillo’s novels of the Cold War and its aftermath.

A Tale of Two San Franciscos

Local activists sought to show the ‘positive’ side of the city. Here’s what they saw instead.

Exposing the Hoax Numbers Behind California’s Racial Reparations

The reparations task force accidentally makes a case for payments to white people.

Womb Transplants for Men

As surgeons see no ‘ethical boundaries.’

Changes in Latitude

Jimmy Buffett, roguish bard of island escapism, is dead at 76.