GET THE LATEST INTERNATIONAL AND POLITICAL NEWS
In 2011, a young chef named Dan Giusti quit his job at the helm of 1789, a long-established restaurant in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and boarded a plane for Copenhagen. Like many ambitious cooks, he had applied for…
There are many categories of salad snob—the ingredient minimalists, the chop evangelists, the dressing-goes-in-the-bowl-first brigade—but perhaps the most vocal, and the most misguided, are those dedicated to the denigration of iceberg lettuce. To its detractors, iceberg is the avatar of…
There will be no love lost between Ireland and England today as they kickstart the Ladies and Girls Home Internationals at Ballybunion Golf Club. Ireland pipped England to claim the Ladies crown in 2017 with a 5-4 victory on the…
At National Review, Jonah Goldberg has a column on the Sarah Jeong fracas that is wrong in, I think, a useful way. He begins with an anecdote: The moral, Goldberg says, is this: “The old lady was wrong to do…
Every year in August, the Swift-Tuttle comet puts on a brilliant show. When the Earth plows into its wake, tiny sand- and pea-size bits of debris hit our atmosphere at 132,000 miles per hour, reach temperatures of 3,000 to 10,000…
There’s a question that’s been baffling solar physicists for decades: Why is the sun’s atmosphere so much hotter than its surface? The solar atmosphere, called the corona, is a violent and chaotic region of the sun that can spew out…
