A week ago, I was listening to The Ben Shapiro Show, a conservative podcast. For those familiar with Shapiro’s sharp wit and rapid speech, it shouldn’t come as as a surprise when I say that I had...
It seems to me that more and more, we have come to expect less and less of each other. It’s a phrase from one of my favorite TV shows, but increasingly, it no longer seems like the stuff of melodrama....
In a previous version of this article the name of Lawrence Lessig's book was incorrect, The Mercury regrets this error.
America’s imperialist ambitions are known to be heading toward the status of empire,...
