National Review
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I Still Think IVF Should Be Banned
Responding to objections about my recent criticisms of IVF.
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One Crazy Summer
Memories of my father’s confirmation hearings, 40 years ago this month.
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Will the Pentagon’s Latest UFO Files Satisfy the Alien Theorists?
The government’s UFO reports spell trouble for those who insist Washington is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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U.S. Leadership on AI Requires Strategic Interdependence
China is tapping America’s AI knowledge pipeline. The answer is managed precision openness.
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Deterring Russia’s Threat to the Baltics
To accept even the loss of a small amount of territory would set a terrible precedent.
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What If AOC Took a Vow of Silence?
A conversation about politics and love really wants to be about the eternal.
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California’s Lawfare Could Further Empty Out Hollywood
Attorney General Rob Bonta’s antitrust crusade is smothering the Golden State’s signature industry.
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The Presidential Soft-Launch Has Begun
AOC, Marco Rubio, and the increasingly influencer-like business of becoming a presidential candidate.
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The Myth of the Miserable Housewife
Far from driving unhappiness among women, marriage and motherhood remain the most stable and achievable sources of meaning and joy.
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The Trouble with the Soft Sciences
The tale of Jason Arday is a reminder of how today’s social scientists often care little about seeking the truth.
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Hold Your Horses for Cody’s Buffalo Bill Center
A look at its superb museum of Western art from Catlin and Bierstadt to today.
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Properties Aren’t Property in New York City
The government has reduced landlords from owners to administrators of ‘public’ resources.
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Why Missouri Declined to Abolish Its Income Tax
Uncertainty caused voters to stick with the devil they know.
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The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
Despite its clear success, a work-oriented safety net continues to be a target for progressives.
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Charles G. Dawes: An Accidental Music Sensation
The composer who later became a vice president showed that amateurs can create great and worthwhile art.
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El-Sayed Shouldn’t Blame Muslim America for His Radical-Islam-Curious Views
The Michigan Senate candidate and his defenders are wrong to imply that his views and statements are uncontroversial among his fellow Muslims.
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The Week: Wisconsin Flushes Sewer Socialism
Plus: AOC, anti-woke?
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Elite Universities Reward Disgraced Leaders with Million-Dollar Soft Landings
Administrators who violate laws, policies, and basic standards of conduct are getting huge payouts instead of pink slips.
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Six Is Sex and Kitsch
An anti- Hamilton blowout hits the screen.
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The Great Divergence: Why America Keeps Pulling Away from Europe
Our comparative prosperity flows from allowing creative destruction.
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Public Schools Shouldn’t Be Fiefdoms of Government Speech
A new Nebraska lawsuit seeks to free students and parents from government indoctrination in classrooms.
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A Better Approach to the Firearms Law Dispute
There is a counterintuitive way for the Trump administration to put a correct Texas ruling nixing part of the National Firearms Act on a firmer footing.
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Conservative Infighting Stretches Back to The Freeman
The 1950s-era magazine set the stage for future fights on the right.
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Restoring Sanity to the Endangered Species Act
The FWS and NMFS were never meant to have this sweeping authority to regulate private lands, as they did with the rescinded harm definition.
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Scott Wiener Faces a Roadblock on the Way to Washington: Nancy Pelosi
The former speaker prosecutes a grudge.
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How Far Can America’s Free Speech Protections Reach?
A former ambassador faces charges of defamation in South Korea.
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Rising Tides, Covered Bridges, and ‘Envy, Thy Name Is Trot’
In this month’s art news: perky auctions, ancient gold, corpse flowers, and Vermont summer cheer.
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Tony Evers, Electoral Gangster
A Democratic Midwestern governor moves quickly to save his party from socialism.
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Mamdani Against Prime Delivery
The mayor endorses a one-employer-fits-all mandate for delivery drivers.
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Democratic Socialists Hit a Wall in Wisconsin
Francesca Hong, the failed chef and radical, suffered a stunning upset to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley in the gubernatorial primary.
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Why Education Savings Accounts Are the Right Path to School Choice
ESAs pair well with income-tax elimination, while tax credit scholarships don’t.
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Spider-Man’s Web of Deceit
Brand New Day offers the same old banality.
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An AI Future Built on Resilience, Not Restraint
Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto defies the doom-and-gloom approach of many AI watchers.
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The Hollywood Merger Won’t Kill Entertainment Jobs. Blocking It Might
Something besides industry consolidation is clearly to blame for Hollywood’s current contraction.
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Don’t Malign the U.S. Economy
People in the U.S. with very low literacy make about as much as the average worker in the U.K.
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Who Is Behind North Korea’s Expeditionary Force in Europe?
The DPRK is further entrenching itself in Russia’s war, and its commitments are significant.
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Democratic Socialism’s Stars Try to Flee from Their Radicalism
The problem with all of these rhetorical retreats is that over at the DSA mother ship, no one is retreating from the group’s national platform.
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How to Fail at Public Order
Burlington’s leaders have neglected the middle class, with predictable consequences.
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Republicans Can Win on Affordability
They should share and express the voters’ anger, and try to direct it toward constructive channels.
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A Country for Old Men
A nation that preserves the authority of those already established risks producing a generation that can’t practice stewardship for itself.
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In Dangerous Times, There Is Progress on Munitions Procurement
The military has discovered that it can buy missiles in advance.
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Will the Woke Own Up to Their Lunacy?
If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her friends have recognized the errors of their ways, they owe the American people more than an ‘oops.’
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We Are Nun Too Lost
Why are TikTok influencers suddenly paying attention to nuns?
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Neither Fish nor Fowl in Iran
Our strategic, political, and moral dilemma in the Iran war derives from never deciding why we’re at war in the first place.
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The Gaza Peace Deal That Isn’t
In such agreements, it is often the case that ‘phase 2’ never comes.
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The ‘Common Good’ Policies of Old Produced the ‘Common Good’ Problems of Today
Government already tried to manufacture the good life.
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Why Trump Won’t Just Break the Blanche Impasse
The president could get his AG pick confirmed easily, if only he’d give up the slush fund.
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The Lawsuit to Save Movie Theaters Will Only Hurt Them
The attempt to block the Paramount–Warner merger is self-defeating.
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The Iran War Is Eating Trump’s Presidency
In pursuing tariffs and the Iran war, Trump has forfeited his signature issue of economic stewardship.
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Jimmy Queers the ‘Activist’ Grift
An art movie challenges biopic polemics.
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We Discard the Lessons of WWII at Our Peril
There has arisen of late a cottage industry encouraging the thinker and the policymaker to set aside the Second World War.
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Counting All of Justice Barrett’s Votes
A look at her full voting history reveals where the justice’s conservative record is lacking.
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The Week: Anthony Fauci’s Shameful Diaries
Plus: Trump’s economic sabotage.
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Can We Admit Now That Caitlin Clark Isn’t Making This Up?
The refs and the media do, in fact, have it out for her.
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The Fed Has Work to Do
Chairman Warsh has committed to restoring price stability, but action would speak louder than words.
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The Dramatic Evolution of John Chamberlain
With his left-to-right metamorphosis, the journalist was a bridge between the Old Right and the postwar conservative movement.
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The DSA Envisions a ‘World Without Prisons,’ but Not One Without Camps
The unconstitutionality of their policy preferences doesn’t seem to bother them much. And why should it?
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Let People Ink for Themselves
The government should not be in the tattoo-regulation business.
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America’s Progress Paradox
Why do our country’s best days feel like our worst?
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Starting the Day with a Transphobic Donut
A Harry Potter–themed promotion at Tim Hortons has outraged the fragile. It’s all so tiresome.