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The Spotlight

Corbin K. Barthold The China Syndrome

It is the Communist Party’s Maoist vision that is imploding from internal contradictions, not that of Western democracy.

Feb 01 2023
Feb 01 2023
Guy Sorman Unpredictable China

A new book argues that the West should be ready for any eventuality from Xi Jinping.

Jun 22 2023
Jun 22 2023
Jason L. Riley The Truth About Slavery and America

The institution was neither unique to the United States nor central to its growth and prosperity.

May 31 2026
Theodore Kupfer College Football’s Twilight

The sport as we know it is changing forever.

Sep 02 2022
Sep 02 2022
Sanjana Friedman A Conflict of AI Visions

Can a politics that seeks to prevent harm coexist with a civilization that wants to build?

Apr 29 2026
Judge Glock The Surprising Heart of the Data-Center Boom

Loudoun County, Virginia, has embraced digital infrastructure—and its economic benefits.

Apr 26 2026
Heather Mac Donald The Scourge of Teen Takeovers

Why youths are rampaging in cities across America—and how to stop it

Jul 12 2026
Jan 29 2026
Steven Malanga The New Map of the American Worker

Pandemic lockdowns and remote work have ignited the economies of small metro regions and rural areas, posing a challenge to big cities.

Oct 29 2025
Jarrett Dieterle Mamdani Misreads What Gig Workers Want

Seeking to “improve working conditions for delivery workers,” New York’s mayor is squelching opportunity instead.

May 20 2026
Allison Schrager Productivity Is Key to Our Economic Future

Whatever role AI will play, sustained growth requires pro-innovation policies.

Apr 19 2026
Stephen Eide Tribune of the Middle-Class City

The late historian Fred Siegel saw families and economic opportunity as essential to urban life.

Oct 25 2023
Guy Sorman On Received Ideas

Puncturing some prominent myths of our age, from neoliberalism to anti-Americanism

Nov 24 2021
Jerry Weinberger Green Madness

The doctrine of deep ecology declares that we must keep our hands off the divine order of nature—even if it kills us.

Dec 12 2018
Seth Barron New York’s Red Borough

Staten Island has long been an exception to the city’s liberal political culture and voting patterns.

Feb 25 2018
Michael Knox Beran Superman Checked Out of the Supermarket

Barack Obama and the vacuous politics of image

May 14 2017