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A Debt of Gratitude

How Else Can Elon Musk Affect Bureaucracy?

Pluralist Points: Curious Disagreement

The Quiet Work of Protecting American Elections

Fueling Memories

The Key to a Hydrogen Economy Is in the Hands of Entrepreneurs

‘Revolt of the Public,’ 10 Years On

It’s Called Classical Music Because It’s Classic

Meloni’s Star Has Risen in Europe. Will It Help Guide President Trump?

Is AI Compatible with the American Dream?

Partitioning Ukraine: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Pharmacy Benefit Managers Negotiate Lower Drug Prices for Millions of Americans

Sorry, Social Media Is Never Getting Any Better

The 2024 Election Deals a Big Blow to Identity Politics

Prelude to a Sequel

Is It Time To Reconsider the Draft?

Space Beckons Anew Under Trump’s Second Term

When the Family Flourishes, Society Flourishes

Muddying the Waters

Shoppers Find a New Outlet (Center)

What We Owe One Another

Gratitude and ‘Good Ships’

The Inner Light

In Defense of Lowbrow Literature

Pluralist Points: How To Fight Hatred

Expanded Targeting Options for Ukraine Are Too Little, Too Late

Creating More Earn-and-Learn Apprenticeships

Congress Should Mend, Not End, Social Security’s WEP and GPO

Election 2024: Top Down, Bottom Up

Can the New President Do a Better Job Overseas?

Liberalism Has a Communications Problem

Age Bias and Why It Matters

Tax Expenditures for the Chopping Block: The Child Tax Credit

Can Democrats Ever Reconnect With the Real America?

Introducing Notes From Highway 10

E.T., AI and Our Need for Friends

Siding With Junk Science Over Justice

Middle East Mythmaking

Arguing Politics in Synagogue—and Staying Friends

Go and Vote and Then Forget About Politics

Why Does Identity Matter More than Ideas? Blame It on Media

America Last

This Election Is Important, but Not That Important

The Rise and Fall of the WTO

Are We Too Worried About International Threats?

Does Anti-liberalism Have a Future in the U.S.?

The Presidential Candidates and Autonomous Vehicles

Video-Game Suburbia

Is There a Fumble in Football’s Future?

Pluralist Points: Citizen Checks on Presidential Power

Arizona Supreme Court Curbs Union Time on Taxpayers’ Dime

On Political Disenchantment

The World According to Kamala Harris

Getting a Handle on the Hispanic Vote

We Need To Stop Treating Technology Like It’s Foolproof

The 60 Minutes Controversy Shows We Forgot the Lessons of ‘Rathergate’

Tax Expenditures for the Chopping Block: College Tax Credits

To Fight Future Wars, the U.S. Needs More Capacity—and Seriousness

The Ideal Housing Is All Housing

Whither the Democratic Intellect?

Risk Is Our Business

‘Free’ IVF Could Paradoxically Result in Fewer Births

AI Integration or Generative Education?

The Rise of the Conservative Left

Introducing American Diary

We Are All Judicial Imperialists Now

Being a Social Media Moderate in the Digital Age

More Housing, Less Participatory Democracy

My Feelings Don’t Care About Your Facts

Nothing Achieves Peace Better Than Victory

Tax Expenditures for the Chopping Block: Energy Subsidies

We Need More Costly Signaling

The Wages of Fecklessness

Pluralist Points: Symbolic Capital and Social Justice

The Rise and Demise of the Great American Songbook

The Collision Course of Green Policies and International Trade

Why Banning TikTok Would Threaten Liberty and Innovation

Two Freedoms

Hovering Over Congress

How Organized Crime Has Turned Environmental Crime Into Big Business

Disinformation or Shared Search for Meaning?

The Federal Bureau of Entrapment

The Fed Needs to Modernize Its Tactics

The Gunman on the Sixth Green

Mistaking Leviathan for God

For Your Reference

Suing the City

Life in Space Means Being Inside All the Time

Harris Leaves Trump Grasping for a Plan

We Need More Little Platoons

Republicans Are Desperate to Join the Celebrity Culture They Abhor

The Era of the Do-Nothing Congress

We Need More Discourse

Pluralist Points: Escaping the Certainty Trap

Tech Innovation Dies in Darkness

Tax Expenditures for the Chopping Block: The Earned Income Tax Credit

J.D. Vance, Former Cultural Conservative

In Praise of Reference Books

Is Durov a New Assange? Or Is Musk the Next Durov?

Four Mental Health Principles From the Ancients

When It Comes to Artificial Intelligence, ‘Big Data’ Isn’t Everything

It’s Not Reagan’s Party Anymore

Aspicable Me

Learn To Worry and Love the Bomb

Tax Expenditures for the Chopping Block: State and Local Tax Deduction

In SEC v. Jarkesy, the Supreme Court Restored Core 7th Amendment Protections

The Seven Essential Truths of Digital Media Literacy

Different Candidate, Same Plan

Art as Moral Ideal

Contact Us

The American Author Living An Orwellian Nightmare

How To Change Your Mind

To Rebuild Trust, Universities Need To Build Open-Minded Brands

Time To Show Venezuela’s Dictator the Door

Keeping the Faith

America’s Midwestern Dad?

John Varley: An Appreciation

The Business of Organized Crime Against the Environment

Natalism, NIMBYism and J.D. Vance

America Is Absolutely an Idea

In Today’s GOP, the Party of Reagan Endures

How Catholic Integralism Became Just Another “-ism” in the New Right’s Firmament

Cutting Red Tape To Spur Economic Growth

Geopolitical Implications of the Liquefied Natural Gas Permitting Pause

Tax Expenditures for the Chopping Block: Tax-Exempt Interest on Municipal Bonds

Democracy’s Happy Warriors

Jordan Peterson’s Technicolor Dreamcoats

Pluralist Points: Acting Together While Thinking Differently

Democrats’ Democratic Problem

Olympic Lessons for Our Debates Over Affirmative Action

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

The Secret Service in the Line of Fire

AI Confounds Assumptions of a Clean Energy Future

Progress, Pain and People

The GOP-Conservative Breakup Is Officially Complete

Close This Multitrillion-Dollar Budget Loophole

Libertarianism Doesn’t Need an ‘Update’

Our Politics Mirrors Our Society. It's Up to Us to Set a New Tone

Joe Biden and a Tear in the Fabric of Things

How America Subsidizes the World’s Medicine

How the Supreme Court’s Big Gun Cases Played Out

A Critical Look at AIPAC’s Political Clout

The Federal Reserve Should Let Exchange Rates Float

The Unnecessary Crisis of Elite College Admission

Why Are People with Disabilities Underrepresented in the Workforce?

Alarmism About Terrorism Is Risky and Unjustified

America Is Not British, and That’s a Good Thing

Pluralist Points: Democracy as a Civic Bargain

The Death Penalty’s Fundamental Flaw

Improving the Rules of the Game

Tax Expenditures for the Chopping Block: The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit

Decongest Yourself

Forever in Blue Jeans

France’s Changing Political Landscape

Three Presidents, Three Views on Racial Empowerment

Truth Follows Function

The U.S. Cricket Team’s Guide to Winning at Everything

Tax Expenditures for the Chopping Block

Ukraine’s Gordian Knot Entangles Western Policymakers

Joseph Stiglitz: Patron Saint of Latin America’s Radical Left

Without World’s Fairs, Can America Imagine Its Future?

Comedy Should Be Taught in Schools

The Benefits of Religious Colleges

Live and Let Fry

Requiem for the ‘Power Elite?’

The Collapse of Media Leaves Us Flying Blind

Cultivating Moderation in an Age of Extremism

Blame It on Foucault?

Growing in Uncertainty

Developing a Literary Canon for Children

The Joys of Road Tripping

‘The Chicago Manual of Style’: My Life as an Editor in Six Editions

The Evils of Empathy

Abundance Is a Choice

What Libertarianism Gets Wrong

Rumors of the Supreme Court’s Illegitimacy Are Greatly Exaggerated

Compute On, Jeeves

Explaining the Red Shift

Is ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ Losing Its Edge?

How To Stop Mission Creep at the Federal Reserve

The New Oracles of Generative AI

Scenes From a Global Struggle

Demystifying the Federal Budget Process

Like It or Not, China Is the Green OPEC

Celebrate Mother’s Day by Increasing the Availability of Flexible Work

Why Hip-Hop's Biggest Feud Is Good for Music

Prices Are Not the Problem

Reforming Social Security Now, Before It’s Too Late

A Century of Government Trespassing

Distant War and Thinning Ice Open Cracks in Arctic Security

The Dilemma of the Rural Democrats

Editor’s Corner: The Perils of Overcorrection

Lessons From ‘Star Wars’ on Political Economy

Expressive Freedom and Dialoguing Across Difference

Instead of More Political Control, the Fed Needs More Rules and Transparency

The Southern Border May Not Be Our Achilles Heel for Terrorism

Pull These Two Levers To Fix K-12 Education

January 6 and America’s Slippery Slope on Free Speech

Taylor Swift Owes You Nothing

Sacrifices to the Manners God

Flirting With the Last ‘No’ in Housing

Abortion Battle Leaves Legislators With Nowhere to Hide

What We Can Learn From the Luddites

In Praise of Anglo-Saxons

An Earth Day Call To Conserve Native Plants in American Cities

The Silver Lining in the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial

In Praise of Old Bookstores

‘Dayenu’ in Reverse

Iran’s Failed Aerial Attack on Israel Revealed Its Big Regional Quandary

Should the DOJ Be Trying To Take a Bite out of Apple?

Is Bipartisanship History?

What Big Thing Are We Getting Wrong About the Future?

Art That’s Just for Me

What Traditional Religion Offers the World

The Architect of Democracy

The Right’s Old Strategy for Higher Education Isn’t Working. This One Would.

Antitrust Cases Are Anti-Business

Catholics Should Be Pro-Housing

Regulatory Reform Options After Loper Bright

From Conservatism to Restoration

Give Profanity the Respect It Deserves

Appreciating Two Icons of American Idealism

Freedom of the Seas Is a Penumbra of U.S. Naval Power

The Changing Calculus of Choosing a Running Mate

Recklessness, Conservatism and COVID-19

Thanks to the SEC, American Farmers Are Narrowly Escaping Europe’s Fate

What Replaces the Biblical Cinematic Universe?

What Baseball Teaches Us

How To Disagree Better

In Cuba, the Terminal Stage of Communism Is a Mafia

The End of Chevron

The Dangerous Allure of the Silver Bullet

Like Esther, I Stand for Jewish Peoplehood

When It Comes To Fighting Poverty, We Actually Agree On A Lot

What’s Age Got To Do With It? A Lot, It Turns Out

Ukraine’s War Zone Election Conundrum

Snow Days, French Fries and the End of Small Respites and Little Luxuries

The Importance of Neutrality and Free Speech on Campus

From Can Do to Entitled

Reinventing Retirement

Education Is Abundant ... If You Know Where To Look

America’s Got a Bad Case of the Electoral Doldrums

Why Consumers Should Welcome Wendy’s Dynamic Pricing and Reject Political Posturing

A College Free Speech Crisis: Highway to the (Intellectual) Danger Zone

What Can We Learn From the Five-Decade Socialist Experiment in Estonia?

How High School Economics Changed My Life

Lifesaving AI in Aisle 12?

Saving Liberalism From Itself

What Would a Pro-Free-Market 'Industrial Policy' Look Like?

Are We Headed for More Political Violence This Election Year?

The Fed Should Keep Shrinking Its Balance Sheet

Postjournalism of Generative AI

A Bright and Brew-tiful Future ... for Older Americans

From NASCAR to ‘Now What?’

Polarization and Behavioral Economics

How To Recover From K-12 Student Learning Loss

Why Should We Study Business History?

DEI Doesn’t Have To Die for Freedom of Speech

Alexei Navalny Is a Warning and a Beacon

Can We Still Build Big Things?

What Are Restaurants For?

Ukraine Is Entering Its Third Year of War at a Difficult Crossroads

The Autodidact: To Improve Society, Start With Improving Yourself

We Are Too Good for DEI

The Fifth Wave: Andrey Mir Takes on World History

‘Right-Sizing’ the Presidency

Biden and Trump Are Both Agents of Chaos

Self-Making: Finding Meaning Within Our Desires

The Manufactured ‘Decline’ of Manufacturing

How To Stop Fentanyl for Real

The Dark Side of the Screen

Submitting a Letter to the Editors

Turning Mr. Right Into Mr. President

The Last Latin American Revolution

We Get the Candidates We Deserve

Neighborhood Supermarkets Are Everywhere

Americans Should Be Less Complacent About Social Security

Why Electric Vehicle Sales Mandates Should Be Abolished

Vancouver’s Housing Challenges Are a Cautionary Tale for Successful, Well-Managed Cities

Not Finished Yet

The Creator Economy Offers Promises and Perils

Bring Back Playground Psychology

Can We Get the Statesmanship We Need?

Deliberative Rhetoric Is a Necessary Tool for Communal Flourishing

Segregation By Any Other Name

What Went Wrong at Harvard ... And Elsewhere?

All Public Health Is Local

The Lessons We're Not Learning From Hamas

Will ChatGPT Soon Replace Editors?

The Extraordinary Ordinary of Traveling

Why America Is Both Democracy and Republic

COVID’s Education Revolution

A College Free Speech Crisis: The Supreme Court’s Big Hand in the Campus Free Speech Chaos

Is Policy Writing a Newscast or an Advertisement?

Has the Tide Turned on School Choice?

Are You Laughing Yet?

Grape Expectations

You Don’t Own a Chinese Car Yet, But You Will

The Constitution’s Overlooked Road Map for an Accountable Bureaucracy

The Fifth Wave: “Open the Pod Bay Doors, ChatGPT”

The Ugly Reality of Wartime Speech

A Biden-Trump Rematch Is No Reason To Panic

Despite Climate Change, Today Is the Best Time To Be Born

Who Made You Boss of the Universe?

Does Social Media Make Us More Human, or Less?

Ron DeSantis’ Branding Problem

Welcome to the Vibeconomy

Good Fences and Civility

What’s Coming in 2024?

Can We Build a Department Store for the 21st Century?

Polarization and Political Violence

Ben Franklin Inspires Freedom Seekers in the Republic of Georgia

In the U.S.’s Fight Against China, We’re at a Distinct Disadvantage

To My Friends Across the Political Divide