Month: July 2022

The Upside-Down World of the Pennsylvania Senate Race

Commentary ERIE, Pennsylvania—If you are looking for conventional wisdom metrics that D.C. reporters and strategists use to outline what is going on in the race for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, the short and the long answer is there are none. The Democratic nominee, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, with whom no one outside his tightly…


Beverly Hills Won’t Enforce Indoor Mask Mandate

Beverly Hills will not enforce an indoor mask mandate should one be adopted by Los Angeles County, its city council voted unanimously Monday evening. “I feel it is our job to lead and I support the power of choice,” Mayor Lili Bosse said. “Our job is to be proactive and public about what we believe….


Why My Friends and I Had More Wisdom When We Were 12 Than College Students and Faculty Have Today

Commentary The average 12-year-old student at a yeshiva has more wisdom than almost any student at Harvard or most other universities. (A yeshiva is an Orthodox Jewish school with an emphasis on religious studies. About half the school day is devoted to religious studies—taught from the original Hebrew sources.) This is probably true for many…


4 Potential Outcomes of the Twitter Versus Musk Trial

News Analysis What started off as a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter this past spring has turned into a litigious affair between billionaire Elon Musk and the social media giant. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO decided to terminate his $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter based on the issue of bots, alleging that the company…


The 4 Potential Outcomes of Twitter Versus Musk Trial

News Analysis What started off as a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter this past spring has turned into a litigious affair between billionaire Elon Musk and the social media giant. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO decided to terminate his $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter based on the issue of bots, alleging that the company…


The Four Potential Outcomes of Twitter Versus Musk Trial

News Analysis What started off as a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter this past spring has turned into a litigious affair between billionaire Elon Musk and the social media giant. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO decided to terminate his $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter based on the issue of bots, alleging that the company…


The Four Potential Outcomes of Twitter vs. Musk Trial

News Analysis What started off as a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter this past spring has turned into a litigious affair between billionaire Elon Musk and the social media giant.   Musk decided to terminate his $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter based on the issue of bots. He alleges that the company is misrepresenting…


GOP Must Embrace Their New Hispanic Friends to Save the Republic

Commentary We live in a country that’s either on the brink of a revival or on the brink of extinction as we knew it. It’s on a razor’s edge and it’s very difficult to tell which way it will go—to the constitutional republic envisioned by its Founders or what amounts to a fiefdom of Communist…


Anatomy of a Classic Cocktail: The Mai Tai

In 1934, Ernest Gantt, aka Donn Beach, opened his first Tiki bar in California. Victor Bergeron, aka Trader Vic—as Tiki joint owners apparently don’t tend to use their real names—soon opened his first as well. The purportedly Polynesian theme caught on. Bergeron, who created his cocktail menu himself, came up with the mai tai in…


Book Review: ‘How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creative Thinking’

What is the origin of things? Did things come from nothing or from something? Those were just some of the many questions the Ancient Greeks pondered, but it led them to be the first to truly innovate. They saw what was and made them better. Armand D’Angour, professor of classics and a fellow at Jesus…