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Approximately two months ago, I wrote about a handful of celebrities, some of whom are Jewish, who have faced immense backlash and bullying over their public support of Israel in its ongoing war with Hamas. Now, it seems that supporters of the other side in this conflict are getting their own share of consequences, but
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Elon Musk, a vocal champion of large families, is now in a custody battle with the most recent mother of his children. Musk is no stranger to such battles. He is estranged from his transgender-identified son who publicly calls him a “pathetic man-child.” He fought a years-long custody battle with one of his wives, the mother of
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Whether it’s for something as serious as cancer or as routine as a kidney stone, no one likes to hear that they have to go under the surgical knife. But such unhappy news is often lightened once a patient has the chance to talk to the surgeon and realize that he is in good, capable
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In the wake of the well-publicized Flint, MI, water crisis, a prominent scientist who had worked on such matters before has gone so far as to claim that “public science is broken.” In painful detail, Prof. Marc Edwards of Virginia Teach describes the unconscionable oversights that led to the crisis—namely, state scientists ignoring the warning
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The Economist magazine recently issued a study purporting to compare countries on the basis of how democratic they are. The U.S. ended up ranked as a “flawed democracy.” In one sense this is absolutely true. As great as America is, it will always be flawed, as will any other country in which human beings run
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Journalism has seen better days. Once upon a time, the profession involved, at least in theory, a commitment to tell the truth—regardless of who it offended. But in recent decades, journalists have revealed themselves to be more interested in serving powerful interests than exposing them. There is, thankfully, a diamond in the rough: James O’Keefe.
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