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Symposium: America’s Mental-Health Crisis

Proposals to improve care for the seriously mentally ill

Which Way the University?

A symposium on higher education in the United States

Fighting the Oldest Hate

A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States

Symposium: An Economic Agenda for the Next President

Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency

Symposium: A New Anticrime Agenda

Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline

How to Defeat Left-Wing Racialism

A symposium on restoring the principle of color blindness

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New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car


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The Spotlight

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In an increasingly urbanized world, earthquakes threaten unprepared cities with mass destruction.

Heather Mac Donald The Partner Chase

An elite law firm’s inability to promote enough minority partners exposes the unrealistic expectations of diversity mandates.

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The legal profession, once a guardian of republican government, is now a force for social upheaval.

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Martin Gurri Lost in the Funhouse

Democrats need to find a way out of their house of mirrors.

Theodore Dalrymple All Sex, All the Time

Enlightened as we believe ourselves to be, a golden age of contentment has not dawned—very far from it.

Heather Mac Donald The True Purpose of the University

Students would scorn free speech less if colleges honored their mission to transmit knowledge.

James Piereson The Big Fix

Looking back at college basketball’s first great scandal, which dethroned the game from its place atop New York sports.

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John Tierney Won’t Get Fooled Again

After the pandemic, Americans should never let public-health authorities deprive them of their liberties.

Theodore Dalrymple The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris

Surrounding the City of Light are threatening Cities of Darkness.

Jonathan Clarke John Updike and the Politics of Literary Reputation

A decade after his death, one of our greatest literary stylists has fallen into critical disfavor.

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Victor Davis Hanson Some Coronavirus Humility

The pandemic may prove as bad as some warn; it is also possible that our response could prove as harmful as the virus itself.

Mar 16 2020
Ray Domanico Hallowed Ground

A venerable Catholic school in the Bronx has transformed the lives of generations of low-income, at-risk students.