Two seemingly unrelated stories have recently taken Washington by storm. First, Democrats marched in lockstep behind the leaders of the nation’s frontier AI labs, who called for Washington to regulate the industry and slow down development. This campaign was kick-started when Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old Anthropic researcher of four months, resigned from the company and […]

In 2025, the New Mexico legislature passed a law that required the state’s Children, Youth, and Families Department to create a dashboard on its website. Among other pieces of information that the public should be able to see, according to this new rule, was “the number of children placed in the custody of the department who […]

At my college orientation this year, a speaker told roughly 200 incoming freshmen that we had a choice. We could approach college transactionally or transformationally. A transactional education is about checking boxes, earning credits, and collecting a degree. A transformational education requires something deeper: the courage to be present, wrestle with difficult ideas, and emerge […]

Imagine being forced from your home, prevented from returning, and then watching the government that controls your homeland invite foreign diplomats into your church to argue that your ancestors never built it. Now imagine hearing the diplomats laugh. This is not a hypothetical moral exercise. It happened at Gandzasar, a centuries-old Armenian monastery in Nagorno-Karabakh, […]

University of Cambridge professor Jason Arday was found dead at his London home on Aug. 16. When Cambridge hired him to teach the sociology of education in 2023, Arday became the youngest black professor in Cambridge’s history. His department head, Hilary Cremin, told him in an interview staged for a BBC documentary that he was “the best […]

Here’s an interesting piece of trivia: One of the world’s oldest comic strip characters is an 8-year-old girl who hasn’t aged a day in nearly a century.  I refer to the self-assured, audacious, and somewhat mischievous Nancy. Created by the brilliant cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller (1905-1982), she first appeared in the newspaper funnies on Jan. 2, […]

What can the United States and its allies do to head off a Chinese invasion of Taiwan before it actually happens? A lot, it turns out, as the Hoover Institution’s Eyck Freymann ably explains in Defending Taiwan, his detailed and compelling exploration of the brewing conflict. Only with determined, concerted action can liberal democracies across […]

Every college and university should agree on one issue MacMahon did not explicitly address: the United States government should never condition research funding or other benefits on adherence to the political agenda of this or any other administration. 

Former President Obama on Friday slammed President Trump over his handling of how to approach artificial intelligence (AI) amid "doomsday" warnings coming from some in the tech industry about the technology's potential existential threat to humanity. Obama said during an interview at Colgate University in New York that the federal government must regulate AI, before...

As we quickly approach the start of early voting in Texas, a new poll released by Nexstar Media and Emerson College showed that both the Texas Governor's race and the Texas Senate race are heating up.