Note from the editor: Karin McQuillan is a novelist (one novel) who was a PCV in Senegal. (She ETed after a year. ) We published a few blog items about her back in January and February of 2018. This article has just been republished on-line by the American Conservatives.

Step 1 Arrange a rack in lower third of oven; preheat oven to 425°. Scrub 2 lb. russet potatoes and 2 lb. Yukon Gold potatoes and prick all over with a fork. Place on a foil-lined rimmed baking sheet. Step 2 Halve head of garlic crosswise (as if you're cutting through the equator) and place on a piece of foil.

This is an article about a famous utopian community that flopped. But for context, let me first relate a story from my younger days. More than half a century ago, I had a friend in junior high school I could never figure out or drum much common sense into.

On August 6, 2020, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order mandating the federal government to buy and give preference to certain "essential" drugs and medical supplies developed and made in the U.S. over those from overseas. The move is expected to plug gaps in the pharmaceutical supply chain that have been exposed by the coronavirus pandemic.

You'd think at least 184 million years of evolution on entirely separate continents would be enough to make two species of fish sexually incompatible. That was the assumption scientists in Hungary were going on when they placed sperm from an American paddlefish near eggs from a Russian sturgeon in the lab.

"We love this country! We came from China where Communism doesn't work. That's why we came to this country. Now, the Democrats want to make this country to b...