The Cboe Volatility Index, known as Wall Street’s “fear gauge,” on Monday spiked to its highest level since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as global equities plummeted amid growing concerns of a U.S. recession. The volatility index, or VIX, rose above 80 on Monday, up from around 23 on Friday and 17 a week
Reparations task force would target laws that ‘disproportionately and negatively affect African-Americans’ Kamala Harris, 2019 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) The reparations bill supported by Vice President Kamala Harris would set up an independent commission similar to the one in California that called for sweeping changes to the criminal code in addition to monetary payouts to black
A University of Chicago professor whose brother is a convicted Iranian spy dismissed the notion that Tehran has boosted anti-Semitic protests on U.S. college campuses. Next semester, that professor will teach students about “Zionist settler colonialism.” Alireza Doostdar, an associate professor of Islamic studies and dual United States-Iranian citizen, is slated to teach a course
Days after President Joe Biden quit the presidential race, some of the most high-profile names in the U.S. climate movement gathered for an online fundraiser in support of Vice President Kamala Harris’s fledgling campaign, where they highlighted Harris’s past far-left positions. The event—which organizers said raised more than $100,000 for the Harris campaign—signals that powerful
The bookshop is the pool-hall for nerds. For those of us who look upon books as near-sacred objects and the places where they are sold as temples of sorts, bookshops are places of pleasure, education, and camaraderie, and as such are indispensable to the good life. Note please I write “bookshops,” not “bookstores.” A store
Israel is fighting its most devastating war in half a century. In his new book Israel Victory: How Zionists Win Acceptance and Palestinians Get Liberated, Daniel Pipes offers a look at the history leading up to that conflict, and what the Jewish state can do to achieve a final and lasting peace. Pipes, a Harvard-trained
REVIEW: ‘The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading’ by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann (Chris McGrath/Getty Images) Before I went off to college, I would frequent libraries and bookstores, both large and small. One formative and saddening memory was of the local Borders—if you remember Borders—closing for good.