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The Spotlight

Heather Mac Donald Make America Responsible Again

Neither Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nor Donald Trump can save Americans from the consequences of their own eating behavior.

Nov 18 2024
Nov 18 2024
Theodore Dalrymple To Have or to Be?

Personal responsibility plays a role in obesity.

Apr 20 2014
Darran Anderson A Manual for Adversity

Nearly 2,000 years after it was written, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is rediscovered by each succeeding generation.

Mar 01 2024
Stefan Kanfer Horatio Alger: The Moral of the Story

The best-selling nineteenth-century novelist stood at the forefront of a phenomenally successful experiment in social reform and improvement.

Nov 01 2000
Stephen Eide Marijuana and the Mentally Ill

Legalization is pushing community mental health to the brink.

May 16 2025
Lionel Shriver The Most Frightened Nation

Why the United Kingdom will never be the same

Oct 10 2021
Steven Malanga The Promise and Peril of “Smart” Cities

Technology can help us govern better, but at what price to urban life?

Sep 25 2018
Michael Anton The Age of Ships

A time before passenger jets, when ocean liners were “the greatest of the works of man”

Dec 21 2011
Steven Malanga No, You’re Not Imagining a Migrant Crime Spree

Four years of open borders and sanctuary policies have brought criminal drug networks, human trafficking, and an epidemic of sexual assault.

Oct 20 2024
Judith Miller Passing the Buck

President Biden blames everyone but himself and his administration for the catastrophe in Afghanistan.

Aug 17 2021
Aug 17 2021
William Voegeli William F. Buckley and the Conservative Future

Sam Tanenhaus’s massive new biography raises a question: Is Donald Trump the political heir of National Review’s founder?

Aug 10 2025
Brian Allen A Serious Critic for Unserious Times

Hilton Kramer rejected political correctness to champion aesthetics and standards in art.

Sep 04 2022
Anthony Hennen The Pan-American Holiday

Without the religious roots of Christmas, Thanksgiving serves as an occasion to celebrate country and family.

Nov 23 2022
Nov 23 2022
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
Miguel Monjardino A Republic in the Atlantic

An innovative program combines reading the Great Books with character-building and community.

Feb 22 2017
Hadley Arkes The Lost Structures of Civility

Looking back on a Chicago childhood in the 1940s

Dec 04 2016