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Print this article Of the many things I would not, as a young man, have predicted about my life at present, perhaps the most surprising is that I would spend dozens or perhaps hundreds of hours drinking gin in Spanish airports and train stations (I am writing this in Terminal Four of Barajas Airport in Madrid, where the cashier in duty free was kind enough to ask whether I needed — no, gracias — the customary sealed bag for my half-pint of Gordon’s). I didn’t start learning Spanish until three years after college, and I didn’t visit the country until I was almost 30. As a young ma...

3 Min Read Published on: 12-29-2020 As a child I enjoyed a series of biblical cartoons that were very well done, both for their artistic quality and for their respectful adaptation of the biblical text. These cartoons re-created various stories from the New Testament. Now that I am a father, I still find myself watching these Bible lessons from time to time with my children. One of the stories included in this animated series is the well-known parable of the 10 virgins (Matt. 25:1-13). Toward the end of the parable, when the bridegroom addresses the foolish virgins, we he...

At once fascinating, fun and scholarly, ‘Gin’ distills appreciation for an enduring quaff Shonna Milliken Humphrey has written a memoir, a novel and now an ode to gin. By Thomas Urquhart Share Some years ago, I discovered Greenall’s gin – on special at Heathrow’s Duty Free shop. It was love at first sip. From then on, a bottle was a prize from every trip abroad. Until last January. At the airport, Greenall’s was everywhere I looked: wild berry gin, blueberry gin, blood orange and fig gin. But of the “classic London Dry Gin handcrafted by England’s oldest gin distillery since...

Staff writer at the new yorker and cnn global affairs analyst. great to see you. one of the defining characteristics of republicans in the senate has been their reluctance to criticize or speak out against lots of things over the past couple of years with president trump. so why now? why has this syria decision changed things for them? >> that's right. it's been one of the central paradoxes of the trump era. the silence of the republicans. and, you know, they have these object lessons in what happens when you criticize trump publicly. you know, some of their brethren who did, bob corker, jeff ...

Time space continuum. and we are here on a crucial day, in all seriousness, in american history. we can lift up beyond the question of impeachment by talking about lawlessness for a moment. do you think the president understands right from wrong? it's a very serious question. do you think he has the capacity to understand that -- remember, this phone call happened, just using it as an example, it happened the day after mueller testified. there's some object lessons in the whole mueller case for a president about talking to foreign powers about interventions in elections. do you think that -- a...