Latest articles

Eat Pray Western Civ

The teaching life of Michael Sugrue, 1957–2024.

A National Initiative to Cut Academics

A new, increasingly popular educational initiative would lower standards, decenter academic content, and worsen students’ ability to think critically or collaborate.

Pro-Euthanasia Activists to Sue Catholic Hospital in Canada

St. Paul’s Hospital will transfer patients to other facilities that participate in MAID — but activists say that’s not good enough.

The Trial of the Century Will Begin . . . Later

Even a mid-summer start date for Trump’s anticipated trial in Jack Smith’s election-interference case would be ambitious.

The ‘woke’ killjoys at Netflix come for a classic cartoon

Former President Donald Trump once poetically mused that “everything ‘woke’ goes to s***.” It seems like the executives at Netflix are determined to prove the former president right, this time with their live-action reboot of Avatar: The Last Airbender, which drops this month. New reporting reveals that Netflix executives are making significant changes to the […]

Relationships are good. Marriage is better

Are liberal elites dismissive of marriage? Jessica Grose, who covers family, religion, education, and culture for the New York Times doesn’t think so.  Responding to Rob Henderson’s book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, in which Henderson recounts how classmates of his at Yale enjoyed the stability of married households while […]

More Republicans have favorable view of Trump than Haley: Survey 

More Republicans have a favorable view of Donald Trump over Nikki Haley, according to a recent poll. The YouGov poll found that 45 percent of Americans have a “very favorable” or “somewhat favorable” opinion of the former president, while only 34 percent said the same about the former U.N. ambassador.  Haley and Trump, the remaining...

This election year, the world’s voters can save democracy and the planet

Right now, we are seeing the cracks in our fragile ecosystems and frail governing systems.

Phillips heralds Wisconsin Supreme Court order to put him on ballot: ‘Thank goodness’

Democratic presidential primary candidate Dean Phillips celebrated a Wisconsin Supreme Court order to let him on the Badger State’s Democratic primary ballot Friday. “Thank goodness democracy is being protected by the judiciary, because our political parties are eroding it right in front of our eyes,” Phillips said in a post on X, the platform formerly...

Iraqi government accuses US of lying about circumstances of Jordan airstrikes, violating international law

An Iraqi government spokesperson has accused the U.S. of violating international law and lying about the circumstances surrounding its retaliatory strikes over a recent attack in Jordan. The strikes killed 16 people, including civilians, and wounded 25, Bassem Al-Awadi, Iraqi government spokesperson, said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter Saturday....

All categories

Recent comments

spot_img