Love and Mercy and Their Opposites: Sociopaths, Rez Dogs, Dave Hickey, or, What we grasp onto for love and its consequences

Andrew Heaton wrote a book, "Los Angeles is Hideous: Poems About an Ugly City." SoCal boy Matt Welch is not having it. Hot words and cold White Claws from Paloma Media studio

This fall may be the biggest moment of truth for public education since the 1970s, as, for example, a Brooklyn elementary loses one-third of its student population and eight teachers, as the first 2021–22 enrollment numbers straggle in.

Eighteen months into the pandemic, news outlets are still selling sensationalism and burying context, says Matt Welch.

Nancy's in trouble on Twitter for calling out the violence in Portland, Matt feels like it's deja vu all over again with the innumerate reporting on COVID and school-kids, mostly they're happy to be back in the studio and fielding all the love

Complying with the layers of COVID-19 restrictions on travel and human interaction is exhausting even for the vaccinated, says Matt Welch, fresh(ish) off the plane from France and reading from his latest for Reason magazine

The U.K. kept schools open and masks off, and now delta is in their rearview. Why can't Yanks learn?

Extolling the virtues of Viktor Orbán's culture war over a sumptuous meal in Budapest is next-level cognitive dissonance,

Liz Wolfe (Reason) and Nancy Rommelmann (Paloma Media) discuss the resignation earlier today of New York governor Andrew Cuomo.