Opinion

In her landmark analysis of totalitarian regimes, Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe a deeply disturbing insight: great evil is not always committed by sadistic monsters. It can also be committed by ordinary people who stop thinking critically about what they are doing and conform to authority or routine. In […]

America is entering a new era in the fight against Alzheimer’s. For the first time, we have tools to detect the disease earlier and intervene when it matters most. Science is moving quickly, and our healthcare system now has the opportunity to speed those innovations to patients — but only if good policy paves the […]

California has spent years telling the rest of the country what good governance looks like. Now it is showing everyone what happens when voters refuse to accept change, no matter the results. The lesson is simple: In a state that is this committed to a particular ideological philosophy, failure is not grounds for reconsideration. It […]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani loves promising things he has no power to carry out. From tax increases to free public transportation, the socialist keeps pretending he’s more than just a mayor. His vow to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is no exception. After months of tough talk, Mamdani finally had to admit […]

I learned to read through turning the pages of the New Yorker. It was the cartoons and ads that hooked me, but after I grew fascinated by silent films, I always looked in the back of the magazine for its pages of faraway weekly screenings, my head full of dreams.  Sixty years on, I remember that […]

Growing up in Australia, I never fully understood why Americans fought so fiercely for their rights. I knew, in theory, that rights mattered. But America’s arguments over the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, and other constitutional freedoms often seemed excessive. It took living in Australia, watching how quickly a government can move when rights are […]