Trump’s plan for Nato 3.0
The Nato summit in Ankara was a showcase of Turkish hospitality and ruthless authoritarian efficiency. Journalists were showered with Turkish delights, perfumes, and porcelain coffee cups, and even Turkey’s cats…
Trump’s plan for Nato 3.0
The Nato summit in Ankara was a showcase of Turkish hospitality and ruthless authoritarian efficiency. Journalists were showered with Turkish delights, perfumes, and porcelain coffee cups, and even Turkey’s cats…
The end of going out
If you want the Smashburger, in New York City you’re in luck, because suddenly there’s a Smashburger joint every other block. If you want gelato, you’re also in luck, because…
Beware apocalypse fever
Apocalypse season is upon us again, bringing with it another round of claims that something or other is going to bring industrial civilization crashing down around us. Indeed, a case…
Why the Left canceled air-con
At their sweltering zeniths, British heatwaves exert strange and intriguing thermodynamic effects. Asphalt turns to liquid. Air becomes flame. Wheelie bins transubstantiate into single-player swimming pools. How, as temperatures rise…
Count Binface: a serious fool
Nothing better illustrates the state we are in than the fact that this summer the country’s most convincing democrat is a pseudo-aristocrat cosplaying as a receptacle for household waste. Count…
Justice for ‘Citizen Vigilante’?
“You’re going to Mount Vernon?” asks my Uber driver, Mohammed, in broken English, picking me up from President Trump’s very disappointing Great American State Fair over the Fourth of July…
Are we all a little bit ADHD?
What does Donald Trump possess very little of, even as he keeps stealing lots from other people? The answer, of course, is attention. Close aides are said to keep their…
The Trump Accounts’ false promise
“I’m really opposed to Trump, vehemently, but it’s a free $1,000,” says Hannah, age 31, a freelance arts professional and mother of a 9-month-old in Brooklyn, New York, of her…
Mamdani’s MAGA power
Zohran Mamdani won’t be able to eat the Democratic Party alive. The man who would probably be, on the basis of raw political talent, the most thrilling of the 2028…