The High Holidays are approaching and Jews around the world prepare for the moment with prayers, repentance, charity—and shopping and cooking for big holiday meals. In my own preparations for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, I assign myself one additional task: the selection of appropriate books to read in synagogue.

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Pretty much anything Elon Musk does leads to one certain reaction: a flood of internet jokes. Whatever the action—endorsing Donald Trump, consideration as Trump's efficiency czar, changing Twitter's name to X, having another child with yet another woman—it leads to jokes, and Musk is often right there joining in.

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The explosion of media formats ended the reign of the must-read columnist. Today, with everyone using different formats, platforms, and sources, it's hard to find a single columnist that everyone reads. Peggy Noonan's Saturday Wall Street Journal column comes close, but the weekend appearance of her column means that people are less apt to talk about it at the office. (If they're even at the office.) Tom Friedman and David Ignatius are useful for knowing what the Biden administration is thinking, but their very closeness to the administration raises questions about whether they'll be as useful when the next one comes in. Jonah Goldberg wields a powerful pen, but his syndicated column does not appear in a must-read paper. Then there is Politico, home to two strong columnists in Jonathan Martin and Michael Schaffer. But that outlet, while widely read in political circles, remains a niche publication.

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When my wife and I recently celebrated our 25th anniversary, we were, of course, excited about the milestone, which only about two-fifths of American couples attain. But we were more excited about opening a cylindrical metal canister that we filled shortly after our wedding, which has remained untouched for the past quarter century.

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Eighty-eight American business leaders have written a letter endorsing Kamala Harris for president. This development may surprise those who assume that corporate business leaders lean Republican. But a close look at the signers, as well as the history of the relationship between business and government, reveals that while this is not some kind of watershed moment in terms of big business' relationship with political leaders, it does signal that Republicans have some work to do in terms of their relationship with business.

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