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The Spotlight

Jeffrey H. Anderson A Woke Jefferson Memorial?

The National Park Service should halt current efforts to make the memorial’s once-excellent basement museum into a condemnation of the author of the Declaration of Independence.

Jun 10 2025
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Catesby Leigh Trump Should Erect an Arch for America’s 250th

His plans to mark the semiquincentennial in 2026 offer an appropriate opportunity to do so in Washington.

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Tim Rice America in Full

Wilfred McClay’s Land of Hope proves that there is no contradiction between knowing American history and loving America.

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Michael J. Totten Something Like Fire

Will the AI revolution warm us or burn us?

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Michael Gibson The Next Arsenal of Democracy

A new generation of defense innovators emerges in El Segundo.

Jul 23 2024
N. S. Lyons The Foundation of American Folly

The Ford Foundation has spent decades tearing the country apart, tax-free.

Jun 09 2024
Stephen Eide When Heroin Hit Jazz

Fascination with a deadly drug ravaged a generation of great American musicians.

Sep 13 2024
Fred Siegel The Riot Ideology, Reborn

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Tal Fortgang The Rise of Civil Terrorism

Radicals seek the demise of the West through organized criminal mayhem—here’s how to stop them.

Mar 09 2025
Steven Malanga No, You’re Not Imagining a Migrant Crime Spree

Four years of open borders and sanctuary policies have brought criminal drug networks, human trafficking, and an epidemic of sexual assault.

Oct 20 2024
Danny Crichton United States of Algorithms

The case for artificially intelligent government

Sep 17 2024
Leor Sapir Gender Medicine on the Ropes

From the courtroom to the ballot box, the trans movement has taken some hits.

Jan 26 2025
Guy Sorman China’s Impossible Dream of Order

Haunted by past humiliations, the nation’s leaders seek to restore what they see as its rightful place in the world.

Apr 27 2022
Stefan Kanfer Vaudeville’s Brief, Shining Moment

The art form's heyday came and went, but its ghost has been lively.

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