The newspaper, in the sense of news actually printed on actual paper, is clearly in its last days. The content of a newspaper can be delivered online at far lower cost than is required by investment in printing plants and equipment, fleets of delivery vans, labor, paper, and ink. With fewer people buying the paper product, big advertising accounts have drifted off to TV and glossy magazines and smaller fry have signed up with Google AdSense, while classifieds have migrated to Craigslist and Monster.com. The print edition New York Post I have delivered daily is one of two tabloids, circulation …
The Failing of the Fishwrap
Will your breakfast newspaper meet the News of the World in oblivion?
In This Issue
Articles
House of Doubt
The ongoing struggles of the housing market are contributing to the softness of our overall economic recovery. Over the last couple of weeks, the Obama administration has restarted debate about ...
United States of Google
In just a few short weeks, Google+, a new social network from the company that gave us the world’s most popular and profitable search engine, has signed up over 10 ...
The Failing of the Fishwrap
The newspaper, in the sense of news actually printed on actual paper, is clearly in its last days. The content of a newspaper can be delivered online at far lower ...
An End to Borders
‘There’s no crying in baseball!” says the manager in A League of Their Own, the 1992 movie about female baseball players. There’s no crying in a free-market economy either. You ...
Credibility Deficit
Republicans have long sought to amend the Constitution to require that the federal budget be balanced. President Reagan campaigned for an amendment, and the Senate voted for it by the ...
Downgraded President
I shall not want capital in Heaven / For I shall meet Sir Alfred Mond / We two shall lie together, lapt / In a five per cent. Exchequer Bond. — ...
Features
To Reform Immigration, Legal and Illegal
Members of the chattering classes keep hoping the immigration issue will just go away. I was once interviewed on a radio show along with an activist on the other side ...
Obama’s Nemesis
Washington, D.C. — Across the rotunda, Sen. Harry Reid, a 71-year-old Democrat, is grumbling about Rep. Eric Cantor, the House majority leader. The previous evening, Cantor, a boyish Virginia Republican, ...
The Last of Lugar?
When Barack Obama was running for president, there was one Republican besides George W. Bush whom he wouldn’t stop talking about. “Politics don’t have to divide us,” he said at ...
Books, Arts & Manners
Faraway, So Close
Whether or not the late Mexican military ruler Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915) ever actually said, “Poor Mexico! So far from God and so close to the United States,” his alleged quip ...
Songs and Tanks
Last month, a singer named Ibrahim Kashush was leading crowds in Syria. They were demonstrating against the dictatorship and for democracy and freedom. Kashush entertained, inspired, and delighted them with ...
Avec Moi Le Déluge
I was arriving early for a dinner appointment in midtown. The cabbie made a wrong turn several blocks away, so I got out to walk. The sun was leaning over ...
Love in the Land of the Free
Here’s something genuinely new under the summer sun: a book that can be enjoyed simultaneously by anyone with an interest in modern sociology — and by anyone who has ever ...
Apocalyptic Witness and Wit
In the course of a long, varied life, several of whose chapters were truly a “rake’s progress,” Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–90) managed, alternately and sometimes simultaneously, to amuse, inspire, and offend. ...
Sections
TO: Studio Personnel
TO: Studio Personnel
FROM: Production
RE: Captain America
This weekend’s excellent box-office grosses for Captain America have been incredibly gratifying. The movie is performing very well nationally, and we’re on track for another ...
Statism Down Our Throats
People who see everything as a problem to be solved by the application of exquisitely calibrated governmental force remind you of the maxim: When all you have is a hammer, ...
Poetry
ON A THEME OF D’ALIBRAY
Such a fine day rides on the soft air,
Laura, please pay heed to the new season,
That laughs at the clear sky and sings of love:
Spring is ...
How Weird How Soon?
From London’s Daily Mail: “Scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos in British laboratories.”
You don’t say. Now why would they do that? Don’t worry, it’s all perfectly legit, ...
Letters
Hazardous to Your Freedom
Regarding Daniel Foster’s “Smoke Alarm” (July 18): If the nanny state’s real objective is to scare a significant number of smokers into stopping puffing, let me suggest ...
The Week
‐ Mr. Strauss-Kahn seems quite well qualified to be prime minister — of Italy.
‐ Rep. Michele Bachmann and former governor Tim Pawlenty, both Minnesotans, have been trading jabs as they ...
Recommended
Minnesota Nasty
Minneapolis is a nice city no longer.
What Happened to Officer Sicknick?
Democratic impeachment managers have a duty to explain how Officer Sicknick died.
Cruz: Actually, It Is Constitutional to Impeach and Convict a Former President
Never mind how he voted.
Guess Who Just Admitted Harris and Becerra Violated the First Amendment
Surprising briefs emerge in a First Amendment case before the Supreme Court.
The Absurd Criticism of Rand Paul’s Rachel Levine Questioning
How likely is it that this dangerous ideological agenda is about to get worse?
Biden Signs Executive Order Allowing the U.S. to Fund Global Abortions
The policy was first instated by President Reagan to ensure that taxpayers would not be required to indirectly fund abortions in other countries.
The Latest
Number of Migrant Children in Border Patrol Custody Triples in Two Weeks
The number of migrant children detained in Border Patrol facilities has tripled over the past two weeks, amid an ongoing surge of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Biden Admin Offers Protected Status to Venezuelan Migrants
Roughly 5.4 million Venezuelans have fled the country in recent years, according to figures from the United Nations.
NY Republicans to Introduce Cuomo Impeachment Resolution
State Assembly minority leader Will Barclay acknowledged that the caucus would not be able to force a vote on the issue.
Tyrannosaurus Regs and Regulatory Dark Matter: Biden’s Accountability Deficit on Regulation
Biden’s attack on public transparency can’t touch one Trump regulatory safeguard — yet.
Clarence Thomas Delivers Decisive Ruling in Religious-Free-Speech Case
Monday was a bad day in court for universities and other serial violators of the First Amendment.
Jake Tapper’s ‘Empirically Racist’ Dr. Seuss Nonsense
There’s no consistent, much less scientific, measure of racism. That’s the problem. Nobody can keep track of the rules.