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The Spotlight

Heather Mac Donald Luigi Mangione and the American Abyss

The assassination of Brian Thompson does not call for a “conversation” about health care—it calls for a reckoning with Americans’ moral breakdown.

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It’s time to break up the nation’s largest school districts.

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Charles Murray’s social science is sometimes provocative, usually controversial, and always significant to the national debate.

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Theodore Dalrymple Montaigne’s Humanity

The great essayist warns us against intellectual pride—but also delights in the variety and contradictoriness of life.

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Declan Leary Can Americans Still Mourn As Americans?

For the first time in more than a century, Memorial Day will be observed with a gaping hole in our national memory.

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Tim Rice Remember the Fallen, and Their Cause

Memorial Day pays tribute to those who gave their lives for their country—but we should know more about why.

May 24 2019
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Bob McManus Sacrifice and Redemption

On Memorial Day we consider the infinite, unpayable debt we owe to the heroic dead.

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Edward L. Glaeser The Nemeses of Cities

Urban flourishing requires overcoming perennial threats, from pandemics to economic barriers to public disorder.

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We need a comprehensive commitment to getting people off drugs and deterring them from starting drug use.

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Mark Lutter Give Charter Cities a Second Look

In a rapidly urbanizing world, an innovative idea seems more relevant than ever.

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Oliver Wiseman “The Least Woke City in America”

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The French writer’s novels have foretold coming catastrophes with uncanny prescience—and his ambivalence toward modernity has much to teach us.

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