As the snow settles on the great Greenland war that never was, the cracks in the Atlantic alliance widen like melting ice packs in the Arctic spring. The “rules-based international order,” that white whale of the golden age of globalization, is declared dead — if it ever existed in the first place. We hear that […]

Netflix had me just where it wanted me this weekend: home. I was one among likely millions of Americans whose attention was divided between contending with Winter Storm Fern and watching streaming content. Both, in their fashion, constituted “work”: my driveway required regular shoveling if I had any hope of keeping ahead of the snow […]

The newest Game of Thrones spinoff has nothing at all to say about the Wall, the Starks, the Martells, the Tullys, the Dothraki, the Iron Islands, or the North. The only dragon we see is a handsomely constructed puppet, made, if I had to guess, of papier mache. Are we really in Westeros, the site […]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art took an emphatic tone in titling “Revolution!,” an exhibit commemorating a 250th anniversary that I probably need not spell out, and the result is emphatically good. The quality and range of items on display are uniformly high, even if the show is not technically all that large. They are a […]