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Elite universities like Stanford have embraced postmodern political correctness, driving more and more students to alternatives.
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Victor Davis Hanson
The Humanities Move Off Campus
As the classical university unravels, students seek knowledge and know-how elsewhere.
Autumn 2008.
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Curing Diversity.
Peter W. Huber
Curing Diversity
The new medicine shows that we’re biochemically separate and unequal—and regulators are starting to catch on.
Pre-K <i>Can</i> Work.
Shepard Barbash
Pre-K Can Work
Needy kids could benefit, but only if we use proven pedagogy and hold programs accountable.
Love in the Time of Darwinism.
Kay S. Hymowitz
Love in the Time of Darwinism
A report from the chaotic postfeminist dating scene, where only the strong survive
Podcast available PODCAST: Kay S. Hymowitz discusses this story
Five Days at the End of the World.
Andrew Klavan
Five Days at the End of the World
My visit to Afghanistan, and the War on Terror movie that Hollywood would never make
Bioterrorism’s Deadly Math.
Judith Miller
Bioterrorism’s Deadly Math
Despite billions spent, we’re not yet ready for a big attack.
We Don’t Need Another War on Poverty.
Steven Malanga
We Don’t Need Another War on Poverty
As the urbanism of the nineties showed, cities can forge their own futures.
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New York State’s Fiscal Reckoning.
E. J. McMahon
New York State’s Fiscal Reckoning
Long addicted to massive Wall Street revenues, Albany faces an agonizing withdrawal.
Storm-Proofing the Economy.
Nicole Gelinas
Storm-Proofing the Economy
We can’t prevent Wall Street turmoil, but we can make it less destructive.
Podcast available PODCAST: Steven Malanga and Nicole Gelinas discuss the Wall Street hurricane and its aftermath
America at Work.
Guy Sorman
America at Work
The U.S. economy and its spirit of enterprise still set the pace for the world.
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Walter Olson
Reparations, R.I.P.
Cause of death: 9/11, public opinion, and the courts
The (Really) Moderate Muslims of Kosovo.
Michael J. Totten
The (Really) Moderate Muslims of Kosovo
The world’s newest country is a model of Islamic tolerance.
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The Quivering Upper Lip.
Theodore Dalrymple
The Quivering Upper Lip
The British character: from self-restraint to self-indulgence
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Laura Vanderkam
All You Need Is Help
Are geniuses born or made? Both, says Malcolm Gladwell.
26 November 2008
Jacob Laksin
Scenes from a Carnage
A New York Times war correspondent chronicles how Iraq came undone.
21 November 2008
Joanne Jacobs
Nagging for Success
Inner-city schools embrace a “new paternalism”—with encouraging results.
20 November 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Slouching Toward Fanaticism
Passionate intensity, but little rationality, in the anti-immunization movement
14 November 2008
Eye on the News.
Theodore Dalrymple
No Country for Young Children
More horrific tales of child abuse from Britain
4 December 2008
Guy Sorman
The Mumbai Strategy
The terrorist atrocities in India point to a larger goal.
2 December 2008
Nicole Gelinas
A Tale of Two Paulsons
The free market is dead; long live the free market.
21 November 2008
Nicole Gelinas, Steven Malanga, and Others
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Health Care’s New Entrepreneurs
27 August 2008
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The Professional Panhandling Plague
24 August 2008
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A Marshall Plan for Reading
13 August 2008
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The Ghost in Your iPod.
John H. McWhorter
The Ghost
in Your iPod
Will Marion Cook’s underappreciated musical legacy
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Soundings.
Steven Malanga
Not Kosher
The Jewish Conservative movement embraces labor and “social justice.”
Heather Mac Donald
A Preference for Truth
Racial quotas are slowly losing their cover.
William Andrews, William J. Bratton
Crime and Politics in Caracas
Thank Hugo Chávez for the Venezuelan capital’s soaring murder rate.
André Glucksmann
Confronting the Putin Doctrine
Europe must hold fast against Russian blackmail.
Daniel J. Flynn
Taxachusetts No More?
The Bay State considers the unthinkable—repealing its income tax.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
Big Middle-Class Sister
We shouldn’t apologize for teaching poor kids how to move up in America.
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