America the Beautiful Is Small
Recharge in places where trust is high. Our cars don't just equal freedom. They help bridge understanding.
Work & Life
The Best $14 I Ever Spent
Not every positive return is monetary.
The Best Thing Most Americans Can Do to Make America Better
Our present crisis: People don't understand the best thing they can do for American society is to lead an individually good life and raise honorable children, not join a protest movement.
Transforming Hope and Progress Into Misery and Despair
The man-child is the enemy of workers, not the voice of the working class.
The Work of Squatting
The back squat—as taxing and technical as a power lift can get—offers a golden opportunity for continuous improvement.
Life After the Death of Work
Whether the victor is big tech or big business, whether the vanquished is big labor or big government, bigness is the problem.
The Inescapable Challenge of the Bench Press
“How much ya bench?” is an unavoidable question at many gyms, and the answer can tell us much about the nature of a man under (bench) pressure.
Republicans Against the Family
Does the GOP aim to conserve the gross domestic product, or hearth and home?
Replacing ‘The Line’
The tyranny of the metric has led us to be alienated from the many connections and goods that truly make life worth living.
‘Reclaiming the American Dream’ Focuses on the American Worker
The same strength and determination that built this country will bring us back to prosperity after the pandemic. The hardworking people of this country don’t ask for much—just a fair shot at their American dream.
Fear and Loathing on the Lawn
There are many ways we are working to fix our nation. But that project is doomed to fail if we don’t also work on fixing our neighborhoods.
Addressing Inequality By Making Work Pay
A wage subsidy is not an elixir. Nevertheless, it would be an important step in the right direction.
Bowling for Sanity
Within this league, every player is a champion.
A ‘Day of Madness’ in the Time of Plague: An Easter Story
We were a week out from our wedding day and it seemed like each new day brought further restrictions to our immediate happiness. But when the day finally arrived we were both seized with joy.
A Bat Infestation in the Time of COVID-19
Upwards of 80 percent of homes have bats. If so, they mostly leave people alone, and we coexist without realizing we do. But peaceful coexistence falls apart when you’ve got one zipping over your head in your bedroom, like miniature dive-bombers launching a sneak attack.
We’re All Preppers Now
The coronavirus pandemic is a reminder that we live in an uncertain world. A lot of frivolous things are likely to go away when this is over.
Work in the Time of COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic should have liberated workers from the old constraints of their workplaces. But many employers remain attached to their outmoded controlling ways.
Remembering the Farming Way
We need to pause sometimes and remember who these dinosaurs were and what they have contributed. For a while longer, a few are still with us, a sort of collective keyhole through which we can look back into a now unremembered American past, whose codes and mores we simply abandoned—and to our great and present loss.
Dreidels Left and Right
How to spin and win this Hanukkah.
Harvard Prefers White Women
The reason for Harvard’s discriminatory policy can be found in the “critical mass” argument the Left often deploys for greater racial quotas for blacks and Hispanics. But it is wrong to scapegoat these groups for a ceiling on Asian-Americans. No, the blame rests more on white women, who need their “critical mass” of white men as partners.