2+ week, 3+ day ago   (525+ words) Over the past year, the Trump administration has pressured the Smithsonian to remove progressive ideology from museum exhibits and the various supplementary materials it puts out (e.g., its press releases, the guides it makes for educators, and so on). Many Smithsonian…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (381+ words) Democracy in America, Volume 2, Part I, Chapters 13-21 Aristocratic literature grows within a small world: writers and readers share an educated class, its conventions, and its standards of taste. Writing for connoisseurs who expect precision rewards patience and polish. Tocqueville is…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago   (282+ words) George Santanyana, the Spanish philosopher, famously said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Fast forward to Japan in 2026. Over the past year, the Japanese yen has depreciated by almost 10 percent to a low of…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (127+ words) Read more at The Atlantic. Robert P. George, Nonresident Senior Fellow First Amendment Watch spoke with legal scholar and political philosopher Robert George about free speech in college classrooms and talking across differences. BY Robert P. George ON 29 Jun 26 Harvard University's Jon…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (419+ words) In The Sun Also Rises, when one of Hemmingway’s characters was asked how he went bankrupt, he replied “first gradually and then suddenly”. As 30-year US bond yields climb to their highest level since 2007 in response to the country’s unsustainable…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (153+ words) In this Federalist Society America 250 series, experts analyze modern legal and policy debates through the lens of the Founding generation. The Founders gave us the tools to answer many contemporary questions; join us as we explore those answers. This webinar…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (400+ words) I have taught American politics for nearly two decades and spent much of my career working with survey data. The 97 percent figure backing El-Sayed piqued my attention, for whenever I see a number like that, my first question is never,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1378+ words) American Enterprise Institute - AEI Does Liberalism Have a Fighting Faith? “The greatest gods of ancient Greece each had many names, and the number of his names proclaimed the number and diversity of the powers the god enjoyed; for these gods…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (724+ words) So much for the golden economic age that President Donald Trump promised at the start of his second term. Eighteen months in, he has little to show for his highly unorthodox economic policy efforts. Prices have not fallen, economic growth…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (454+ words) Celebrations for the July 4 semiquincentennial may be over—but the anniversary year continues—and it’s worth reflecting on the right songs to sing to celebrate it. A great many Americans undoubtedly sang last weekend the song which the New York…...