Of Monkeys and Men The Extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal Lawrence M. Krauss 23 Mar 2024 · 7 min read
Alexei Navalny 1976–2024 The life and death of a complex and courageous dissident. John Lloyd 23 Feb 2024 · 14 min read
Robert Kemp Adair (1924–2020)—Notes on a Friendship Reflections on the life and work of a superb scientist, for whom integrity and rigor were paramount. Geoffrey C. Kabat 12 Jan 2024 · 19 min read
In Memoriam, 2023 A tribute to three pop-fiction authors who passed away this year. Kevin Mims 19 Dec 2023 · 14 min read
In Memoriam A tribute to five pop fiction writers we lost in 2022. Kevin Mims 20 Dec 2022 · 12 min read
PJ O’Rourke—A Tribute The thing about PJ O’Rourke, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 74, was that everyone wanted to be around him. By “everyone,” I don’t just mean the right-wingers I hang out with, most of whom share PJ’s classical-liberal politics, but also neoconservatives like Bill Charles Murray 16 Feb 2022 · 2 min read
Farewell, Alex Trebek On Friday, November 6th, between 1 and 2pm Pacific Daylight Time, I participated in an audition for the TV game-show Jeopardy!. Normally auditions are conducted in person at various regional locations around the US. As a Northern Californian, I should have been attending a live audition in San Francisco. But Kevin Mims 13 Nov 2020 · 14 min read
On Remembrance Day, Celebrating Two Canadian Prisoners Who Took Down an Entire Shipyard The need for secrecy was therefore paramount. But as he began to plot his sabotage, Clark realized he’d need at least one trusted accomplice. George MacDonell 11 Nov 2020 · 10 min read
R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics. Sky Gilbert 6 Nov 2020 · 8 min read
Remembering My Friend Peter Beard Peter is no longer here to tell us the truth of the matter. Geoffrey Clarfield 28 May 2020 · 8 min read
Death of an Old-Fashioned Clown Willard was a kind of Holy Fool even among fools. Simon Evans 21 May 2020 · 7 min read
So Here's to You, Buck Henry Most of us are distant spectators to the roped-off paintings that line the museums inside our aesthetic imaginations. Some of the pieces have been removed; others don’t have appropriate labels. Art Tavana 28 Jan 2020 · 10 min read
Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals Scruton did not entertain petty prejudices, and had no wish to tell anyone how to live or who to love. Barbara Kay 14 Jan 2020 · 8 min read
The Million-Petalled Flower He had the gift of producing them by inverting or adapting cliché to give it new life. Andrew Gleeson 4 Dec 2019 · 15 min read
On the Passing of Oberlin Plaintiff David Gibson David Gibson has not lived to see the end of this distressing saga. In late 2018, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and, on November 16 of this year, he passed away aged 65. Daniel McGraw 2 Dec 2019 · 11 min read