Then-President Reagan sits in the Oval Office after delivering his farewell address on Jan. 11, 1989. He famously said, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,” and, “I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” Healthy distrust and skepticism of any …
LOADING ERROR LOADING Gwendolyn Herzig, a transgender pharmacist, went to the Arkansas statehouse last month to testify in support of providing transgender youth with gender-affirming health care. “Do you have a penis?” Herzig later told NBC News that the experience “was probably the most publicly humiliating thing I’ve ever gone through.” The medical malpractice suit is just one of the …
Fear is very easy to spread. Yet if you report on every extreme event and throw in the term ‘climate change’, you will very rapidly plant the idea that the world is in some freakish transformation. In his 2006 climate change film An Inconvenient Truth, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore asserted that the snows on Mount Kilimanjaro would be gone …
Editor’s Note: Keeping you in the know, Culture Queue is an ongoing series of recommendations for timely books to read, films to watch and podcasts and music to listen to. The French Amazon original feature “The Mad Women’s Ball,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is out on Amazon Prime today, is the latest addition to the …