This month’s return of the Supreme Court after a long summer recess coincides with the Court’s reinsertion into national political debates amid a presidential election campaign. Though the new term ...

One of the most promising developments in higher education today is the rise of civic-education colleges within public universities, particularly in red states. Notable examples include the School of ...

A visit earlier this year to two Baroque masterpieces of the Hapsburg Empire—Prague and Vienna—revealed a classical music ecosystem not usually glimpsed from the United States. From the perspective of ...

You can’t say we were not warned. In the final days of the presidential campaign, the New York Times, barely staving off a nervous breakdown, is pulling out all the stops in its effort to keep Donald ...

For ten presidential election cycles, pundits have employed the same shopworn quote when describing Pennsylvania: “Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, with Alabama in the middle.” The expression was coined ...

One of the most persistent pitfalls in political argumentation is a version of the fallacy of false equivalence. A friend dubs it the fallacy of ripe apples and rotten oranges. In a political context, ...

The self-styled capital of the American West faces a governance crisis that should alarm urbanists and municipal bondholders alike. Los Angeles teeters on the brink of fiscal emergency, not from some ...

The Democrats’ catastrophic performance on November 5 showed their vulnerability on a number of key issues, but none perhaps ...

I used to think that the notion of a liberal fascism was absurd, a figment of a paranoid political imagination. Now I am not so sure. More than one person has been arrested in London for holding up a ...

Recently, in an idle moment, I stumbled on a superb piece by Joseph Epstein, “Joan Didion From the Couch,” which reminded me of how the engineering of reputations in the literary world often betrays ...

The National Institutes of Health, which provides funding for breakthroughs in medical science, has long enjoyed a trustworthy reputation. But, in keeping with the Biden administration’s ...

The latest global climate conference opened Monday in Azerbaijan. The timing is excellent. Any doubt regarding the wisdom of ...