Summer 2025

2025
Robert Henderson Sexual Politics

Why men and women are diverging ideologically, even as they become more alike economically and educationally.

Heather Mac Donald Trump Takes on Big Science

Critics who claim that the president is politicizing the National Science Foundation ignore its long history of funding left-wing research.

Danny Crichton AI Can Solve the Fiscal Crisis for Cities—If We Let It

Only by embracing the future can cities escape the stagnation of the present.

Steven Malanga The Real Path to Industrial Renewal

Government efforts to help workers and regions left behind by globalization have failed, but we have new opportunities—more effective than tariffs—to spur a manufacturing revival.

Judge Glock Biden’s Progressive Infrastructure Boondoggle

Four years after the passage of the $1.2 trillion bill, roads and airports remain unrepaired, and delays and cost overruns plague projects.

Jordan McGillis Hello, Columbus

The state capital makes a sharp contrast with Middletown, which peaked in the 1970s but struggles today.

Kay S. Hymowitz Eat, Pray, Leave

The literary glamorization of midlife divorce conveniently skips over the crucial role of marriage in human flourishing.

Christina Buttons Havens for the Troubled

Though under siege around the country, residential treatment programs can be a lifeline for disturbed young people.

Nicole Gelinas New York’s Unsettling Mayoral Race

Whatever the outcome in November, the city will get (another) highly flawed leader.

William Voegeli William F. Buckley and the Conservative Future

Sam Tanenhaus’s massive new biography raises a question: Is Donald Trump the political heir of National Review’s founder?

Ilan Wurman Trump v. the Courts

The president has shown deference to the judicial branch. Will it show him any?

Neetu Arnold The High Costs of Classroom Disorder

With consequences ranging from teacher attrition to declining student learning, schools have failed to enforce fundamental behavioral standards.

Judith Miller Detroit—Back from the Dead?

Outgoing mayor Mike Duggan has pulled the city back from the brink—but whether its revival can continue without him remains to be seen.

Robert VerBruggen Pushing Back on Disparate Impact

The Trump administration is challenging claims of race- and sex-based discrimination against public-safety departments based on test outcomes.

Urbanities

Urbanities

Soundings

Steven Malanga Municipal Litigation Lottery

Growing judgments against cities are helping bust budgets.

Joel Kotkin The Next Californias

Colorado, Washington, and Oregon have adopted many of the policies contributing to the Golden State’s decline.

Ilya Shapiro Trump Should Thank the Federalist Society

The president’s transformation of the federal judiciary owes much to the conservative legal organization, despite his recent criticisms.

Jacob Howland Is the West Gestating Civil Unrest?

Dire warnings may be overstated, but they identify deeply disturbing trends.

Soundings

Steven Malanga Municipal Litigation Lottery

Growing judgments against cities are helping bust budgets.

Joel Kotkin The Next Californias

Colorado, Washington, and Oregon have adopted many of the policies contributing to the Golden State’s decline.

Ilya Shapiro Trump Should Thank the Federalist Society

The president’s transformation of the federal judiciary owes much to the conservative legal organization, despite his recent criticisms.

Jacob Howland Is the West Gestating Civil Unrest?

Dire warnings may be overstated, but they identify deeply disturbing trends.

Oh, to be in England

Theodore Dalrymple Luigi Mangione and the Romance of Murder

Too many young people today celebrate the idea of making a difference—at any cost.

Oh, to be in England

Theodore Dalrymple Luigi Mangione and the Romance of Murder

Too many young people today celebrate the idea of making a difference—at any cost.

Diarist

Jonathan Clarke Fifty Years

Saigon Diarist

Diarist

Jonathan Clarke Fifty Years

Saigon Diarist