Resurrecting a failed New Deal model is no way to alleviate America’s housing shortage.

Whatever its effects on polls, Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate between Ohio senator J. D. Vance and Minnesota governor Tim Walz offered a window into some of the deeper forces shaping this ...

In one of modern philosophy’s most celebrated scuffles, Jean-Paul Sartre derided Albert Camus for rejecting violence committed in service of noble ideals. If you snub your nose at movements that ...

Initial amazement at Israel’s “beeper attack,” in which Hezbollah pagers exploded on thousands of their operatives, has quickly turned into accusation of war crimes. Media reports have shifted from ...

Every nation has an operating ideology. In a country that hews faithfully to the principles embedded in its written constitution, that ideology is overt. In a tyrannical government, however, it is ...

Kamala Harris lost the endorsement of West Virginia senator Joe Manchin last week. The former Democrat-turned-independent announced that he would not vote for the vice president because of her recent ...

The scenes in North Carolina and elsewhere in the South in the wake of Hurricane Helene are as shocking as they are harrowing. Asheville and the surrounding area, a seven-hour drive from the Atlantic ...

“Young people will change the world,” we often hear. And the implied change is always the same: a leftward shift. Youth are naturally rebellious, we’re told, and they’re bound to cast aside hidebound ...

This month, millions of students returned to California’s troubled public schools, where, under State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, academic results have kept declining and ...

I do research on occupational licensing, and when I ask people to guess the state with the heaviest licensing burden, they often name New York first. They’re usually shocked when I tell them that New ...