Opinion

The heat beams down on me. It’s another blistering hot day in Las Vegas, the last place you would expect SpaceXAI to host a hackathon, an event where programmers see what they can build in a few hours. I lift large packs of soda up the stairs — SpaceXAI hasn’t provided volunteer organizers with a […]

In the modern healthcare debate, policymakers obsess over top-down metrics: capping insurance premiums, expanding digital health infrastructure, and mandating electronic health records. Yet, in this relentless pursuit of administrative efficiency, the system is actively destroying the invisible architecture that keeps medicine functional: the human connection. As healthcare is increasingly mediated by corporate mandates and automated […]

Conservatives for decades have carried the pro-family mantle against a Left that is sometimes radical in its antipathy to marriage and parenthood. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the preeminent elected official on the Left, has suggested that it’s immoral to have children because of climate, and that the parent-child relationship is itself “carceral” (because of timeouts). […]

For years, Latin American politics seemed trapped in a familiar cycle. The Left promised social justice. The Right promised stability. Governments changed, parties rebranded, presidents came and went — yet the underlying political architecture often remained remarkably resilient. That era is ending. Across Latin America, voters are increasingly challenging political establishments that once appeared permanent. […]

President Donald Trump on July 16 delivered a nationally televised, primetime address highlighting security gaps in U.S. voter registration databases and other election infrastructure. Figuring prominently in the president’s speech was newly declassified information on China’s acquisition of millions of U.S. voter registration records. As reported in the Washington Examiner: “A cache of declassified intelligence […]

Debate has always been a crucial part of any democratic system.  Even the Founding Fathers, including John Adams, argued that a republic could only survive if its people were educated enough, and free enough, to argue through their disagreements rather than have decisions imposed on them from above.  That idea still holds. What’s changed is […]

The Christian apologist G.K. Chesterton once said, “A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.” Chesterton died in 1936, but might as well have been referring to today’s ongoing debate around whether or not biological males can or should play in women’s sports. Earlier […]

A student at Vanderbilt University, while World War I rages, Roy Young has his whole life ahead of him. More than this, he appears to have his life mapped out. After finishing his studies, he intends to return to Ewer’s Rock, Virginia, and successfully modernize and manage his family’s farm. He also expects to marry […]

I have never been especially drawn to landmarks. Battlefield plaques, preserved taverns, roadside markers — I understand the appeal, and I have stopped for a few. But they have always seemed less like history than tombstones: fragments of a past life that meant far more to those who erected them than to those who pause […]

The world is an oligarchic place these days. While the relentless rise in international travel has diminished the traditional exclusivity of some early jet-set destinations, there have emerged several geographic poles where it is increasingly difficult for the common man to gain true access. These include Monaco, Swiss ski resorts such as Gstaad and St. […]

The best indicator of the waning influence of the WASP is that most people no longer know who the term refers to.  Stripped to its barest terms, “white Anglo-Saxon Protestant” could mean anyone from an Appalachian bootlegger to a recently naturalized citizen who grew up in the Cotswolds. But these disparate figures, while white, of […]

This week, on a Zoom call with some colleagues, I told the group that I have been traveling around Europe and the Caucasus since May. One of my colleagues responded with a flattering shout. Wow! she said. You’re not just a tourist, you’re a traveler! Which was gratifying, of course, but also made a complicated […]

Teachers unions suffered yet another deserved but embarrassing defeat this week. In Arizona, the state Supreme Court found that not only did unions fail to submit enough valid signatures to get their anti-school-choice proposition on the fall ballot, but they also broke the law by hiring felons to collect signatures. This is just the latest […]