Politics

I was glad that one of the most accomplished defense attorneys in recent US history, Tom Mesereau, endorsed and circulated my article on last week’s Bill Cosby ruling. Debates over Cosby’s moral probity or lack thereof are beside the point. The essential point is how the virulently angry response to that ruling by the nation’s leading cultural “influencers” goes a long way to highlight a key dynamic underlying the ongoing ascendance of latter-day left-liberalism.

Inside the all-hands meeting that led a third of the company to quit, and an executive to resign

Judd Legum is a standard-issue, loyal Democrat who writes on Substack under the auspices of something approximating journalism; he previously ran the now-defunct partisan propaganda operation ThinkProgress.

The precious resource America lacks

This sunny day at the beginning of the autumn, a time of the year when French vineyards are particularly beautiful and fruitful, Zakaria’s hands were sticky because of the raisin juice. Working on the vineyards in the Bordeaux region is not easy but safe and satisfying. Zakaria is from Sudan and the small sunny fields around an ancient chateau are new for him, but he seems happy. Here, in one of the most famous winemaking Grand Cru regions of France with centuries of reputation, he found home and friends.

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