The United States has coasted on its Cold War success for thirty years while China has devoted enormous resources to become a high-tech superpower. | Continue reading
It's time for American men to get to work. | Continue reading
The creator of Final Fantasy makes his final statement. | Continue reading
What is the condition of a society which, following his lead, rejects truth as a criterion? | Continue reading
Three scholars of public debt discuss where the United States is headed in light of our mounting debt crisis. | Continue reading
A good explanation of the Clinton-Trump clash we are living through, and of Trump’s having taken the Republican Party by storm, is in Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule’s 2010 brief for executive supremacy as the way we do constitutionalism. The Posner-Vermeule thesis in The Executi … | Continue reading
Elite universities are abandoning traditional liberal arts education, but new institutions are filling the gap. | Continue reading
As a conscientious liberal, Sowell leaves you with a nagging question: Why haven't you or anyone you know grappled with his work? | Continue reading
Williams’ argument runs counter to how many today understand the Enlightenment movements which reshaped the European world from the late 17th century on. | Continue reading
As Francesco Boldizzoni details, reports of capitalism’s demise have, time and again, been greatly exaggerated. | Continue reading
The Protectorate paved the way for what later became known as constitutional monarchy. | Continue reading
Rachel Lu reviews Chris Arnade's Dignity, a look at those struggling in what he calls "back row America." | Continue reading
It is impossible to establish when the Kremlin first entertained the idea of finding a modus vivendi with Hitler. | Continue reading
The useful work that Silicon Valley could accomplish, it has by now accomplished. It is today primarily an entertainment industry. | Continue reading
The often conflicting accounts of the life of Alcibiades must be used by a biographer with considerable caution, and Stuttard does a wonderful job. | Continue reading
The great achievement of Montesquieu was to produce a liberal political theory that was genuinely universal while also doing full justice to the particular. | Continue reading
The meaning of the word “liberal” cannot be determined by history—or even by etymology—any more than it can be determined by ahistorical philosophy. | Continue reading
Michael Rappaport on the FBI's corrupt practice of relying on interview notes rather than recordings. | Continue reading