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.
Not so much
The party’s activist wing is formidable.
From Covid eviction bans to tenant-slanted laws, property owners are under financial siege. Here’s what Trump can do about it.
The Inflation Reduction Act will burden the American economy for years.
As the city recovers from the pandemic, it risks settling for stagnation.
Unions are resisting tech advances that would make East Coast ports more efficient—and dramatizing a tension within the Trump coalition.
From exploding welfare costs to billions spent on migrants to soaring compensation, politicians are repeating the mistakes of the 1970s.
Legalization is pushing community mental health to the brink.
Limiting charity to material needs fails to nourish the human spirit.
For too long, policymakers and businesses have made decisions on the belief that costs don’t matter. Reality is reasserting itself.
August Vollmer was the first to professionalize American policing—a legacy often distorted and unappreciated today.
It’s time to leave behind a concept that originates in opposition to the quest for truth.
Urbanities
Novelist Jay McInerney captured the zeitgeist of New York a generation ago—and he’s still at it.
In a culture more comfortable with psychologizing evil, noir forces us to confront it.
Urbanities
Novelist Jay McInerney captured the zeitgeist of New York a generation ago—and he’s still at it.
In a culture more comfortable with psychologizing evil, noir forces us to confront it.
Soundings
The Illinois governor seems determined to stick with left-wing cultural politics as he eyes a White House bid in 2028.
A celebrated left-wing cause goes down with barely a whimper.
Time to end funding for government social programs that don’t work
The UN agency has been inciting and facilitating violence through Hamas-linked affiliates in Gaza.
American Christianity’s decline may have halted, thanks in part to twentysomethings turning to the church.
Soundings
The Illinois governor seems determined to stick with left-wing cultural politics as he eyes a White House bid in 2028.
A celebrated left-wing cause goes down with barely a whimper.
Time to end funding for government social programs that don’t work
The UN agency has been inciting and facilitating violence through Hamas-linked affiliates in Gaza.
Oh, to be in England
Britain’s Milton Keynes is a stark example of public officials acting as rationalist social planners.
Oh, to be in England
Britain’s Milton Keynes is a stark example of public officials acting as rationalist social planners.
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