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The Spotlight

James Piereson The Big Fix

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Dec 31 2020
Jonathan Clarke Fields of Dreams

A defense of the Division I athletic scholarship

Dec 20 2018
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Steven Malanga How Sports Journalism Lurched Leftward

Sportswriters are out of touch with fans.

Mar 11 2026
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William J. Stern How Dagger John Saved New York’s Irish

John Joseph Hughes, New York’s first archbishop, was the catalyst for the cultural change that liberated the city’s Irish from their underclass behavior.

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Kay S. Hymowitz Eat, Pray, Leave

The literary glamorization of midlife divorce conveniently skips over the crucial role of marriage in human flourishing.

Sep 07 2025
Steven Malanga Whatever Happened to the Work Ethic?

The financial bust reminds us that free markets require a constellation of moral virtues.

Aug 23 2009
Theodore Dalrymple The Inexhaustible Hamlet

Shakespeare’s tragedy elucidates the paradoxes of human existence.

Sep 14 2014
Myron Magnet Iran and the Lessons of History

With the pending nuclear deal, Obama courts dishonor—and possibly war.

Mar 22 2015
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Steven Malanga Gone to Pot

Legalizing weed has provided fewer benefits and more hazards than supporters promised. Time for a rethink.

Feb 23 2025
Rafael A. Mangual Can We Get Back to Tougher Policing?

Law enforcement has major hurdles to clear before it can restore the policies that led to the Great Crime Decline.

May 26 2024
Theodore Dalrymple Of a Scale Unknown

Rotherham’s child sexual assaults remain shocking—but far from unique.

Mar 23 2023
Michael J. Totten Something Like Fire

Will the AI revolution warm us or burn us?

Mar 03 2024
Shepard Barbash The Mexico Tragedy

America’s southern neighbor confronts metastasizing violence and institutional corruption that threaten its future.

Apr 28 2019
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After the Reagan Airport disaster, will we finally reform the FAA?

Feb 04 2025
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Linguistically inventive, socially prescient, and philosophically profound, A Clockwork Orange comes close to being a work of genius.

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