Author: Lance Garrison
Technically speaking, Donald Trump is still far from winning the Republican presidential nomination, but his victory on Tuesday in the New Hampshire primary was enough to push the Republican National Committee off the sidelines and into his corner.“I do think there is a message that is coming out from the voters which is very clear. We need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is gong to be Donald Trump, and we need to beat Joe Biden,” Ronna McDaniel, the R.N.C. chairwoman, said in a recent interview on Fox News.Other high-profile Republicans, like Senator John Cornyn of Texas, have followed…
Earlier this month, I went with my 18-year-old daughter to see the South African singer Thandiswa Mazwai perform with her band at a music festival in Manhattan.Many of my fellow South African expatriates were in the audience. As we took our seats, my daughter, Rosa, noticed concertgoers waving South African flags. You rarely see such displays outside political or sporting events, but many South Africans seem to be having a moment of self-assertion and patriotism since our government brought a genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice in The Hague for its actions in Gaza, solidifying its…
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“How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” by Bill GatesMary Katharine HamThis Conservative Thinks America’s Institutions ‘Earned’ Their Distrust (Aug. 15, 2023)“Wise Blood” by Flannery O’Connor“Rules of Civility” by Amor Towles“The Right” by Matthew ContinettiBen DomenechA Conservative on How His Party Has Changed Since 2016 (Aug. 8, 2023)“The War on the West” by Douglas Murray“The Mandibles” by Lionel Shriver“Running the Light” by Sam TallentMartin WolfHow Martin Wolf Understands This Global Economic Moment (Aug. 1, 2023)“The Narrow Corridor” by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson“Power and Progress” by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson“The Rise and Fall of American Growth” by Robert J.…
The Republican presidential primary is all but over. Even if Nikki Haley stays in the race, it’s hard to see her winning a single primary, including the one in her home state of South Carolina next month. Even though Haley received an impressive 43 percent of the New Hampshire vote, her electoral reality is grim. According to the most recent FiveThirtyEight polling averages, she trails Donald Trump by more than 56 points nationally and by 37 points in South Carolina.It’s déjà vu all over again. Since the moment Trump took the G.O.P. primary lead in 2015, he’s never relinquished his…
In The Times Union of Albany, Steve Barnes assessed a very hot pepper spread: “Remember the old advertising line ‘A little dab’ll do ya’? For Mr. Naga Hot Pepper Pickle, it’s more like a little dab’ll do ya in.” (Bill Callen, Selkirk, N.Y.)In her obituary in The Times of Peter Schickele, a.k.a. the musical parodist P.D.Q. Bach, Margalit Fox wrote: “Crucially, there was the music, which betrayed a deeply cerebral silliness that was no less silly for being cerebral. Mr. Schickele was such a keen compositional impersonator that the mock-Mozartean music he wrote in P.D.Q.’s name sounded exactly like Mozart…
To the Editor:Re “The Economic Indicator We Need? A Candy Bar,” by Paul Donovan (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 21):Contrary to Mr. Donovan’s claims, I’m not uninformed about inflation. I know the latest year-over-year inflation rate, as well as the latest month-to-month inflation rate.Indeed, using the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ most-cited measure of inflation — the Consumer Price Index — my real (inflation-adjusted) salary in winter 2024 is less than my real salary in winter 2020, despite having received a raise each of the past three years based on strong performance reviews, solid company performance and a resurgent economy.I’m also informed…
As Mr. Scorsese seems to have learned through decades of exploring the darkest and most violent aspects of human nature, encountering the pain and weakness of Mollie Burkhart may not generate the empathy and reckoning with colonialism that Mr. Scorsese seeks to provoke with the film. Pain and weakness may only make the wolves more hungry, more determined.Mr. Scorsese takes a different tack. Rather than aim for moral development of the audience through empathy for Osage suffering, he focuses on Ernest Burkhart. Ernest is the paradigmatic wolf, just as Mr. DiCaprio has played other wolves throughout his career, on Wall…
Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’If you’re a Democrat, how worried should you be right now? It’s strangely hard to answer that question. On the one hand, polls suggest Democrats should be very worried. President Biden looks weaker than he did as a candidate in 2020, and in matchups with Donald Trump, the election looks like a coin flip. On the other hand, Democrats staved off an expected red wave in the 2022 midterm elections. Biden has a strong record to run on, and Trump has a lot more baggage than he did in 2020.So, in an effort to put…