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Jonathan Karl: Why Donald Trump’s Election Lies Matter
In his recent book Betrayal, ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl writes: We now live in a nation where a large part of the populati…
4 years, 6 months ago
John McWhorter on Woke Politics, Race, and Education
A professor of linguistics at Columbia University and author of the recent book Woke Racism, John McWhorter has been an outspoken critic of woke poli…
4 years, 6 months ago
Ashish Jha on Covid-19: On the Omicron Variant and the Outlook for 2022
Where do things stand with Covid-19? How has the emergence of the Omicron variant changed the situation? What can we expect in the short term and thr…
4 years, 7 months ago
Shep Melnick on Title IX: Equity, Due Process, and Free Speech on Campus
In a recent essay, Shep Melnick, a distinguished scholar of American politics at Boston College, writes: Few federal laws have achieved their initial…
4 years, 7 months ago
Scott Lincicome on the Economy, Inflation, and the Supply Chain
Why have the costs of basic goods and services been increasing in recent months? Will shortages in stores and delays in orders for durable goods pers…
4 years, 8 months ago
Linda Chavez: The Border, the Biden Administration, and Immigration Reform
In recent years, immigration has become a major flashpoint in our politics. Our increasingly rancorous quarrels often serve to obscure rather than cl…
4 years, 8 months ago
Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli as the Founder of Modernity
But since my intent is to write something useful to whoever understands it, it has appeared to me more fitting to go directly to the effectual truth …
4 years, 9 months ago
William Baude on Election Subversion: How Great a Threat?
In a recent law review article, University of Chicago law professor William Baude writes, After the 2020 presidential election, the peaceful transfer…
4 years, 9 months ago
Joe Trippi: The Biden Administration, the Parties, and Looking Ahead to the Midterms
Eight months into his presidency, how is Joe Biden doing politically? How should we understand the current dynamics in the Democratic and Republican …
4 years, 10 months ago
Donald Kagan: War and Human Nature
Donald Kagan (1932 - 2021), who passed away this summer, was a preeminent historian of both the ancient and modern worlds. In 2015, we were privileg…
4 years, 10 months ago