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The assassination of Brian Thompson does not call for a “conversation” about health care—it calls for a reckoning with Americans’ moral breakdown.
They have become a potent American metaphor.
“The Machine Stops,” a 1909 short story by E. M. Forster, uncannily imagines our technology-dependent world—and what might happen when the tech breaks down.
After the pandemic, Americans should never let public-health authorities deprive them of their liberties.
Past generations could no more live up to present moral standards than we could live up to those of the distant future.
On the mass conversion of our institutions
Identity’s triumph over argument in legal education undermines democracy.
Progressives notch another victory in their war on American institutions.
The Supreme Court’s recent Mahmoud ruling allowing parents to opt out of LGBT classroom lessons aligns with broader public opinion.
The Lone Star State’s new billion-dollar, universal-eligibility voucher program shows that educational freedom has gone mainstream nationwide.
Parental discontent with public education has sparked new momentum for alternatives.
A new approach to help students achieve self-mastery would do wonders for long-term social mores, economic growth, and innovation.
Reflections on Martin Luther King, Jr., 50 years after his assassination
Obama & Co. shoved it down the memory hole.
The career of Sharpe James, who died this week, demonstrates how political clout means little compared with economic opportunity and human capital.
A conversation with Shelby and Eli Steele
