Novelist Maggie O’Farrell always wanted to write the story of her great-great-grandfather, who lived in Ireland and worked for the Ordinance Survey, Britain’s mapping service, in the 1850s. And now she has. Her vivid new novel, Land, features a surveyor and his family who are engulfed in the chaos of the era. These were perilous […]
Is a reading comprehension test racist if fewer black people pass it than white people? Is a pushup requirement sexist if fewer women can pass it than men? For decades, employers have faced the impossible task of identifying objective measures to analyze job applicants while also ensuring the demographics of those who pass those tests […]
Specifically, the House Administration Committee shined a spotlight on the Dems’ major fund-raising platform, ActBlue, and its apparent efforts to end-run the federal laws...
Mamdani’s housing plan literally aims to expropriate his class enemies — in this case, mom-and-pop property owners — and hand their buildings over to...
"Why do we have foreign companies owning carriers?" asks Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. "Why would we allow that? It makes it really challenging to...
The federal courts have been delivering a consistent verdict for the past two years: Diversity, equity, and inclusion programs built on racial and gender quotas violate the same civil rights law they claim to enforce. The cases aren’t close. The verdicts aren’t small. And the legal standard being applied is 60 years old. The legal […]
Over 100 years ago, German sociologist Werner Sombart famously asked, “Why is there no socialism in the United States?” For Sombart, the answer was America’s unusual prosperity, social mobility, and weak class consciousness. It is that weak class consciousness that truly separates America from much of the rest of the world. Like any nation, the […]
