Posts by Swedan Margen
Roger and the Smooth Fox Terriers
Roger and Carol had both worked and always hired dog walkers during the day, but Roger took Andy around the block for the last walk of the night. A smooth fox terrier is small, but vividly black-and-white, even after dark. The doormen on East Ninetieth Street looked out for Roger and Andy. Roger did not…
Read MoreFood of the Future? I’ll Pass | National Review
Meat simulations won’t convince our tastebuds. Source link
Read MoreHow America Quietly Made Nuclear Power Great Again | National Review
The benefits of an expedited nuclear reactor approval process are coming closer to fruition. Source link
Read MoreInfluencers want to adopt the ‘analog lifestyle’ for 2026. Here’s how to join them
At the dawn of 2026, social media influencers at home and abroad proclaimed it the year of the “analog lifestyle,” a call to reduce digital connectivity as smart tech and screen time dominate a person’s attention span. Selly Tan, an influencer from California, said people are “craving something real again,” and vowed to print her…
Read MoreThe Quad God and American Reckoning at the Olympics
Of course, it wasn’t just Malinin whose performance tugged my attention away from Italy and toward America. A handful of athletes from the States have spoken up, less in righteous indignation than in baffled concern, about American politics these days. The curler Rich Ruohonen—who, when he’s not winning tournaments, works as a personal-injury lawyer—spoke at…
Read MoreLiu > Gu | National Review
The American figure skater’s performance off the ice stands in stark contrast with that of the California-born, China-embracing skier. Source link
Read MoreCollateral Damage for the Coal Industry? | National Review
A lawsuit over ESG policies could have unintended consequences. Source link
Read MoreIn a frenetic digital era, he’s helping Angelenos rediscover the classic cassette player
Stepping into Jr. Market boutique in Highland Park is like entering a 1980s time warp. Built into a refurbished shipping container, it’s filled with everything from tiny Walkman-style portables to colorful, number-flip clock radios and, naturally, boomboxes of all sizes. Few are more imposing than the TV the Searcher, a Sharp boombox from the early…
Read MoreThe Unlikely Success of a Strange Alabama Bookstore
Eventually, Frank Reiss moved back to Atlanta and opened A Cappella Books, a shoebox of a store in Little Five Points, and Reiss watched his son’s success with admiration and even some envy. “I followed Frank to library sales to buy books,” he told me, “and then I asked him for a list of the…
Read MoreMamdani’s Utopian Vision Faces Reality | National Review
The socialist superstar is already threatening to hike the property taxes of middle-class New Yorkers. Source link
Read MoreAmerica’s Earliest Outdoor Photographs Shown at Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum | National Review
Your critic wanted to see this lovely show so much that he put his contempt for the museum’s trustees in abeyance for a day. Source link
Read MoreBernie Sanders kicks off billionaires tax campaign with choice words for the ‘oligarchs’
Populist Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday formally kicked off the campaign to place a billionaires tax on the November ballot, framing the proposal as something larger than a debate about economic and tax policy as he appeared at a storied Los Angeles venue. “The billionaire class no longer sees itself as part of American society.…
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