Republicans’ shameful hypocrisy on Ukraine

June 02, 2025

Republicans’ shameful hypocrisy on Ukraine

ODESSA, Ukraine — Odessa was the pearl of the Black Sea. It still is. Life goes on, but the signs of war are also present. The art museums are open but boarded up against the threat of missile and drone strikes. Every apartment building, school, and hotel has bomb shelters. Restaurants inform their patrons where […]

A robot will never be your best friend

All the lonely people. Where do they all come from? Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently said he hopes artificial intelligence chatbots will soon serve as buddies, therapists, and business partners for people who lack human interaction. This is from the man who hollowed out the meaning of “friend” and made much of online social interaction […]

We are all Harvard now

How do you know you’re on the wrong side of a political argument in a populist era? When you plead with your readers to donate money to Harvard. That’s just what journalist Matthew Yglesias did Thursday on his widely read Substack Slow Boring. Yglesias, a Harvard graduate who went on to write for numerous prestige […]

‘The Last of Us,’ Season 2: The apocalypse and teenage melodrama

Craig Mazin might be the most libertarian showrunner working in television today. Chernobyl, his breakout miniseries, was a harrowing indictment of centralized incompetence. And The Last of Us, at least in its first season, revolved around the corrupting perils of consolidated power, culminating in one man’s decision to protect a child rather than submit to the demands […]

The Trump administration has already permanently damaged Harvard

Harvard University is in crisis. The Trump administration has gone for the jugular, attempting to cut off the flow of federal funds. Perhaps most importantly, it has sought to cut this prestigious university off from its economic lifeblood: international students. But this crisis is largely one of Harvard’s own making. It could have made an […]

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California Democrats wonder if they are the problem with gas prices

California Democrats in the state legislature are discovering that they may not have been running the state very well in recent years. They questioned state regulators about California’s brewing oil crisis. In the past year, Phillips 66 and Valero have both announced they will be closing a refinery in California, leading to a 21% decline […]

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