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The Spotlight

Steven Malanga No, You’re Not Imagining a Migrant Crime Spree

Four years of open borders and sanctuary policies have brought criminal drug networks, human trafficking, and an epidemic of sexual assault.

Oct 20 2024
Judith Miller Passing the Buck

President Biden blames everyone but himself and his administration for the catastrophe in Afghanistan.

Aug 17 2021
Aug 17 2021
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?

Aug 10 2025
Brian Allen A Serious Critic for Unserious Times

Hilton Kramer rejected political correctness to champion aesthetics and standards in art.

Sep 04 2022
Anthony Hennen The Pan-American Holiday

Without the religious roots of Christmas, Thanksgiving serves as an occasion to celebrate country and family.

Nov 23 2022
Nov 23 2022
Heather Mac Donald The Humanities and Us

Don’t listen to today’s narcissistic academics—the West’s cultural inheritance is indispensable.

Jan 15 2014
Miguel Monjardino A Republic in the Atlantic

An innovative program combines reading the Great Books with character-building and community.

Feb 22 2017
Hadley Arkes The Lost Structures of Civility

Looking back on a Chicago childhood in the 1940s

Dec 04 2016
Oct 19 2025
Stephen Eide Scandinavia on the Hudson

New York City’s experience with social democracy is a cautionary tale for the rest of the country.

Oct 26 2025
Heather Mac Donald Hysterics for Hamas

Why have young women been so prominent in the recent campus chaos?

May 09 2024
May 09 2024
Stephen Miran The Mismeasure of Money

The Fed should abandon inflation targeting and return to pursuing price stability.

Aug 28 2023
Nicole Gelinas New York Braces for a Mayor Mamdani

The city’s future may depend on the socialist front-runner not doing much of what he says he’ll do.

Oct 05 2025
Steven Malanga City Hall Socialists

The far Left is making inroads into local government races.

Oct 28 2020
Michael J. Totten The Last Communist City

A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see

May 11 2014
Edward L. Glaeser How to Talk to Millennials About Capitalism

Polls show that young people embrace socialism—but they also distrust government regulation and admire entrepreneurialism and small business.

May 05 2019