When President Trump sits down with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner at the White House next week, he will be flanked by the architects of America's tech economy.
“I am a Jew.” Those four words should be an ordinary declaration of identity. At a prayer vigil outside the New York mayor’s office on Sept. 18, they became a statement of resolve. Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, senior rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan, built his remarks around “Ivri Anochi,” עברי אנכי, drawing on the […]
“I am a Jew.” Those four words should be an ordinary declaration of identity. At a prayer vigil outside the New York mayor’s office on Sept. 18, they became a statement of resolve. Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, senior rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan, built his remarks around “Ivri Anochi,” עברי אנכי, drawing on the […]
What piece of everyday athletic gear, applied in urban areas to the buttocks, turns normal people into raging, homicidal, suicidal, antisocial maniacs? The bicycle seat. Bicycling in cities is prima-facie evidence of insanity. Yes, bike lanes indicate where cars mustn’t go, but a) drivers aren’t looking for bicyclists; b) drivers don’t care about bicyclists; and […]
Nearly every woman carries the fear of becoming a victim of a violent crime. She may not always say it, but every time she walks to the office, takes her children on an errand run, or double-checks the lock on her front door at night, there is an underlying calculation of what she needs to […]
Nearly 20 million students have returned to America’s college campuses. Those of us who have spent our lives inside universities never tire of it. Back to school is one of the most exciting times of the year. This year, though, campuses are quieter. Universities have admitted 15% fewer doctoral students this fall, the second consecutive […]
President Donald Trump can deliver a timely economic win before the holiday shopping season by using the new U.S.-China Board of Trade to reduce tariffs on everyday consumer goods. Tariffs on imports from China have been defended as leverage against unfair trade practices and a tool to protect strategic industries. But not every product imported […]
When the chief executive of one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence companies says that his industry must slow down, we should listen. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently warned that AI capabilities are advancing faster than our ability to understand and control them. His concern — and much of the public debate — centers […]
The recent 7th Circuit opinion permitting in-home possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material raises many questions regarding the relationship between protected speech and generative AI. While most people would say CSAM of any child — real or virtual — should be illegal, the decision relies on precedent from the 2002 Ashcroft v. Free Speech […]
In traditional diplomacy, progress is usually slow. The Trump administration does not follow that old script. When President Donald Trump renewed his demand to acquire Greenland earlier this year, foreign policy experts panicked. Critics dismissed the idea immediately, calling it entirely unrealistic. Yet, the United States, Denmark, and Greenland are now preparing to sign a […]
Is West Bank settler violence the hill that Israel’s friends want to die on? I ask as a lifelong admirer of the Jewish state. I marvel at the achievement of maintaining an open society in a lawless region. I remember the warm glow I felt, two decades ago, when the IDF general who had laid […]
Conservatives in Congress have started to separate government-worker unions, such as Randi Weingarten’s American Federation of Teachers, from “private-sector” unions, such as Sean O’Brien’s Teamsters. They know Weingarten and her friends are irredeemably liberal in their social policy and destructively socialist in their economic policy, so they’re treated as adversaries. But since almost 60% of […]
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, Americans are holding two seemingly contradictory ideas at once. Gallup reported in June that 78% of Americans still believe the American dream is worth striving for, and 69% believe they personally will achieve it. Yet an AP-NORC poll found that only 34% say the traditional proposition that […]
Russia’s war in Ukraine accomplished something no American strategy could have engineered on its own: It hollowed out Moscow’s grip on its former empire. The White House noticed and moved. Congress still has not. The Trump administration has moved at a remarkable pace. In August 2025, Washington displaced Moscow as broker of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, […]
