The Italian explorer who opened America to the West deserves tribute.

In the long run, a society can’t flourish without vibrant public ideals and reverence for its heroes.

The president’s executive order pushing the museum to start honoring American history again is a welcome step.

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

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

Until we relinquish the idea that policing activity against black criminals is racist, restoring law and order in our cities will be impossible.

The case for incarceration

August Vollmer was the first to professionalize American policing—a legacy often distorted and unappreciated today.

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

The field has embraced left-wing racialism.

Many institutions no longer teach students how to flourish in a free-market system.

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

A new approach to help students achieve self-mastery would do wonders for long-term social mores, economic growth, and innovation.

Proposals to improve care for the seriously mentally ill

The death of objectivity has been both cause and effect.

Has a beleaguered intellectual tradition lost its optimism?