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

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

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

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

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

John F. Kennedy was murdered by a Communist in an age of superpower tensions—but 60 years later, a counterfactual mythology continues to mislead Americans.

Sabin Howard’s A Soldier’s Journey brings a cinematic approach to the Great War—and defies the arrogance of Washington’s cultural elites.

Levon Helm, The Band, and the birth of Americana

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

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

John F. Kennedy was murdered by a Communist in an age of superpower tensions—but 60 years later, a counterfactual mythology continues to mislead Americans.

Sabin Howard’s A Soldier’s Journey brings a cinematic approach to the Great War—and defies the arrogance of Washington’s cultural elites.

Levon Helm, The Band, and the birth of Americana