Henry Luce and his empire belonged to another country, another era.

Reflecting on Bobby Kennedy, 50 years after his assassination

As Ted Koppel has recognized, today’s media embrace the darkness of their own biases.

Seventy-five years after the Normandy landings, reflections on America’s troubled subsequent history

Twenty years after 9/11, Afghanistan has reverted to the Taliban and America has disappeared down a rabbit hole.

Memorial Day in an unnerved America

Christmas, 2022

A car should be a costar, a romance, a myth—not a robot

Proposals to improve care for the seriously mentally ill

A symposium on higher education in the United States

A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States

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

Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline

A symposium on restoring the principle of color blindness

Hope endures if courage and faith can.

Remembering Charles Dickens’s first visit to New York

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

Looking back on a Chicago childhood in the 1940s

The key to increasing upward mobility is expanding vocabulary.

Teach black kids to read.

An unusual charter school network, serving middle-class families, promotes a classical curriculum—and gets results.

The great American comic satirized white racism, his fellow blacks, and himself.

A report from the front lines

The destructive influence of Wilhelm Reich, father of the sexual revolution

Today’s young people are encouraged to believe that they are traumatized by their personal experiences and the injustices of history.

What makes the West strong

The greatness, and darkness, of Henry Kissinger

A noble—and poorly understood—American tradition

Christopher Lasch’s cultural criticism anticipated our narcissistic age.

Dylan Thomas, the last true bohemian