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Michael J. Totten on disasters human and natural

Michael J. Totten Off the Richter Scale

Can the Pacific Northwest prepare for the cataclysmic quake that’s coming?

Michael J. Totten A Tidal Wave of Death

The 1918 Spanish flu was a killer of historic proportions.

Michael J. Totten The Enduring Relevance of The Plague

Albert Camus’s postwar novel captures the existential dread of contagion.

Michael J. Totten The Last Communist City

A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see

The Spotlight

Tim Rice Remember the Fallen, and Their Cause

Memorial Day pays tribute to those who gave their lives for their country—but we should know more about why.

May 24 2019
Lance Morrow Walls, Doors, and Names

Memorial Day in an unnerved America

May 27 2022
Bob McManus Sacrifice and Redemption

On Memorial Day we consider the infinite, unpayable debt we owe to the heroic dead.

May 28 2017
Dorothy Moses Schulz George Floyd Memorial Weekend

For President Biden, the annual marking of the Minneapolis man’s death is an opportunity to gesture in support of anti-police advocates.

May 30 2023
Robert VerBruggen The Visionary

Peter Huber’s wide-ranging work changed the way we understand risk, technology, markets, law—and human freedom itself.

Michael Torres “We Thought She Was a Great Teacher”

How a Washington public school’s transgender secrecy policies drove an immigrant family out of the country

Stephen Eide The Encampment State

Billions in spending have failed to solve California’s massive—and worsening—homelessness crisis.

Stefan Kanfer No One Could Touch Him

A massive biography follows the phases of Frank Sinatra, an alternately appealing and appalling meistersinger of popular songs.

Nov 13 2015
Kay S. Hymowitz Marriage and Caste

America’s chief source of inequality? The Marriage Gap.

Heather Mac Donald The Therapeutic Campus

Why are college students seeking mental-health services in record numbers?

Martin Gurri In Search of a Right Populist Agenda

Merely opposing the Left’s hegemonic power is not enough.

Stephen Miran The Mismeasure of Money

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