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The Spotlight

Aidan Grogan Second-City Socialism

Socialists have a larger presence on Chicago’s city council than on that of any other large American city.

Oct 21 2026
Judge Glock DOGE Achieved More than You Think

The effort’s biggest cuts were to the civil service—and they worked.

Oct 14 2026
Robert Almelor Delfeld Can Republicans Reclaim Colorado?

The GOP has abandoned the Centennial State, but a looming left-wing civil war might reopen the frontier.

Oct 27 2026
Charles Fain Lehman The Children Saved by Flock

Automated license plate readers have become a political flashpoint. No one talks about the dozens of children they’ve rescued.

Oct 27 2026
Oct 27 2026
Harry Stein How Trump Can Make Baseball Great Again

An executive order can restore the game to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American character.

Apr 20 2025
Apr 20 2025
John Hirschauer Is Football Doomed?

Chuck Klosterman’s obsessive, passionate new book makes many arguments about the national game, including a prediction of its eventual demise.

Feb 06 2026
Feb 06 2026
Stefan Kanfer The Horror! The Horror!

A weighty tome devoted to H.P. Lovecraft, guru of the ghastly

Nov 21 2014
Nov 21 2014
Carlos Acevedo Eerie and Exquisite

The Innocents, the first and best film adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, is tough to beat for a Halloween film choice.

Oct 30 2020
Oct 30 2020
John Steele Gordon A Short History of Morality

Past generations could no more live up to present moral standards than we could live up to those of the distant future.

Jun 01 2021
Heather Mac Donald The Humanities and Us

Don’t listen to today’s narcissistic academics—the West’s cultural inheritance is indispensable.

Jan 15 2014
Roger Scruton Forgiveness and Irony

What makes the West strong

Feb 01 2009
Wilfred M. McClay The Partnership of Speech

Freedom of speech isn’t meaningful if we aren’t willing to listen.

Apr 05 2026
Apr 05 2026
Heather Mac Donald The Campus Rape Myth

The reality: bogus statistics, feminist victimology, and university-approved sex toys

Feb 24 2008
Harry Stein Don’t Expect Media Apologies—Ever—for the Duke Lacrosse Case

The journalists and outlets that helped mobilize the hysteria back in 2006 shrug at Crystal Mangum’s belated admission of the obvious: it was all lies.

Dec 22 2024
Dec 22 2024
Steven Malanga How Sports Journalism Lurched Leftward

Sportswriters are out of touch with fans.

Mar 11 2026
Mar 11 2026
Jeffrey A. Kroessler Defamed for Being Right

Sex-crimes prosecutor and novelist Linda Fairstein is shunned for her role in convicting the Central Park Five—a verdict that remains correct.

Dec 13 2018
Dec 13 2018