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President Trump says they’ll usher in a manufacturing renaissance. They’re more likely to raise prices and unemployment.

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President Trump wants China’s automakers to build cars in the U.S., but modern vehicle technology makes that a national security risk.

The former New York governor has said that anti-Semitism is his campaign’s most important issue.

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too?

GOP gains in the wake of Trump’s victory shake up the Garden State governor’s race.

University presidents can undo fear-based decisions they made during the years of Peak Woke.

HHS’s new review is a comprehensive and sober reevaluation of the science and ethics of the “gender-affirming” model.

From Covid eviction bans to tenant-slanted laws, property owners are under financial siege. Here’s what Trump can do about it.

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President Trump should abandon the “Social Vulnerability Index.”

Federal funding cuts could force Harvard and other elite schools to shape up—or risk sliding into irrelevance.

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Unions are resisting tech advances that would make East Coast ports more efficient—and dramatizing a tension within the Trump coalition.

They spend less time studying than ever—and it’s fueling campus dysfunction.

The former New York governor has said that anti-Semitism is his campaign’s most important issue.

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too?

GOP gains in the wake of Trump’s victory shake up the Garden State governor’s race.

University presidents can undo fear-based decisions they made during the years of Peak Woke.

HHS’s new review is a comprehensive and sober reevaluation of the science and ethics of the “gender-affirming” model.

From Covid eviction bans to tenant-slanted laws, property owners are under financial siege. Here’s what Trump can do about it.

Limiting charity to material needs fails to nourish the human spirit.

From exploding welfare costs to billions spent on migrants to soaring compensation, politicians are repeating the mistakes of the 1970s.


The Medical Aid in Dying Act sends a message that life ceases to be worth living when it becomes too difficult or nears its end.

President Trump should abandon the “Social Vulnerability Index.”

Federal funding cuts could force Harvard and other elite schools to shape up—or risk sliding into irrelevance.

City Journal Podcast

The Lone Star State’s new billion-dollar, universal-eligibility voucher program shows that educational freedom has gone mainstream nationwide.

Unions are resisting tech advances that would make East Coast ports more efficient—and dramatizing a tension within the Trump coalition.

They spend less time studying than ever—and it’s fueling campus dysfunction.

The former New York governor has said that anti-Semitism is his campaign’s most important issue.

A German spy agency deems the party a threat to the “democratic order,” but voters say otherwise—should they be silenced, too?

GOP gains in the wake of Trump’s victory shake up the Garden State governor’s race.

University presidents can undo fear-based decisions they made during the years of Peak Woke.

The University of California’s program creates a stifling orthodoxy.

Trump was right to slash education contracts. He should keep going.

Intelligence officials maintained a chatroom to discuss polyamory and transgender surgeries, internal documents reveal.

Fellow-to-faculty programs have seeded academia with activists.

B4U-ACT is part of a growing movement to legitimize sexual attraction to children.

The fellow-to-faculty model helps administrators strong-arm academic departments into hiring their preferred candidates.

President Christopher Eisgruber has created a system of widespread racial discrimination.

The university has entrenched a system of racial discrimination—against whites.

The campaign against Elon Musk’s company is hardly a grassroots movement.

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The RISE UPP initiative appears to be using applicants’ “commitment to diversity” as a proxy for race.

Universities have gone from arguing that science is biased to claiming that even the overhead on their massive federal research budgets must not be cut.

Jennifer Manly has been associated with over $100 million in grants over the past 20 years.

He is believed to have committed suicide after suffering severe complications from gender-transition surgery.

It’s time for the Trump administration to intervene.

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The University of California’s program creates a stifling orthodoxy.

Trump was right to slash education contracts. He should keep going.

Intelligence officials maintained a chatroom to discuss polyamory and transgender surgeries, internal documents reveal.

Fellow-to-faculty programs have seeded academia with activists.

B4U-ACT is part of a growing movement to legitimize sexual attraction to children.

The fellow-to-faculty model helps administrators strong-arm academic departments into hiring their preferred candidates.

President Christopher Eisgruber has created a system of widespread racial discrimination.

The university has entrenched a system of racial discrimination—against whites.

The campaign against Elon Musk’s company is hardly a grassroots movement.

It contributes to universities’ left-wing bent.

The RISE UPP initiative appears to be using applicants’ “commitment to diversity” as a proxy for race.

Universities have gone from arguing that science is biased to claiming that even the overhead on their massive federal research budgets must not be cut.

Jennifer Manly has been associated with over $100 million in grants over the past 20 years.

He is believed to have committed suicide after suffering severe complications from gender-transition surgery.

It’s time for the Trump administration to intervene.

An insider tells the story of the intel agency’s ideological capture.

The University of California’s program creates a stifling orthodoxy.

Trump was right to slash education contracts. He should keep going.

Intelligence officials maintained a chatroom to discuss polyamory and transgender surgeries, internal documents reveal.

Fellow-to-faculty programs have seeded academia with activists.


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The better things get, the more desperately activists struggle to stay in business.

Her deed took place in a social universe that liberals have wrought, and whose realities they are too guilty or cowardly to acknowledge.

David Cronenberg’s movies reflect a world teeming with novel contagions, vast conspiracies, and radical therapies.

Can the Pacific Northwest prepare for the cataclysmic quake that’s coming?


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

For Germans, neither memory nor amnesia can provide consolation.

Wealthy Americans are far from the most politically influential group—and what influence they do exert is often beneficent.

Past generations could no more live up to present moral standards than we could live up to those of the distant future.

A personal reflection on why we shouldn’t abandon the faith that has nourished Western civilization

In places like Prague and Vienna, local talent is nourishing the classical tradition.
