The American Civil War was a war of dualities—North and South, Union and Confederate, slave and free—and never less so than when it comes to dual biographies. Pairing personalities—Lee and Grant, Lee and Jackson, Grant and Sherman, McClellan and Lincoln—has been one of the most unusual features of the limitless literature of the Civil War.
Humans born in 1900 witnessed a startling stream of technologies that transformed their everyday lives and their understanding of the universe. Cars, telephones, and the internet overturned where we lived, how we worked, and whom we knew. Other scientific feats took the breath away by their sheer might—most of all, the atom bomb and a
Matt Parker is a mathematician who does comedy. Or a comedian who does math. It’s as eccentric a combination as you’re likely to find, but the amazing thing about his new book, Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World, is that he managed to find over 50 other people to join him in the math.
Journalists are finally admitting the ‘right-wing conspiracy’ was true As Joe Biden nears the end of his failed term as president, a handful of mainstream journalists are finally starting to admit what most Americans already knew: The people (mostly journalists and other Democratic partisans) who kept insisting Biden was fit to serve another four years
The Beltway consensus is that Americans will look back fondly on 2024. Other than the major war or two, the Biden years were a welcome interlude in Washington from the chaos and tumult of Donald Trump’s hyperactive tweeting. As the mandarins look back wistfully, the hoi polloi may recall a different set of events. There
On June 11, 2020, PayPal launched a $530 million program to invest in “minority-focused investment funds” and “address economic inequality.” One of the first people to inquire about the program was Nisha Desai, the CEO of Andav Capital. Born to Indian immigrants who had been expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin’s ethnic cleansing, Desai launched
Judge’s ruling marks latest setback for CNN in defamation trial brought by Navy veteran CNN moderator Jake Tapper at the Democratic Presidential Debate in 2019 (Scott Olson/Getty Images) CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s jabs at Fox News could come back to bite the network in an upcoming defamation trial over a segment in which Tapper’s show