In The Great Contradiction, Joseph Ellis reckons with the two evils that arose from the very liberty for which the Founders ...

The education story of the year has been the “Southern Surge.” An intrepid group of southern states have led the nation in ...

In New York City, making a profit on real estate has become increasingly difficult. Rent-stabilization laws built on the ...

In his preface to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens expresses the hope that his “little book” would “not put my readers out of humor with themselves.” But he obviously wanted to induce ...

No presidential administration has taken anti-Asian discrimination in university admissions more seriously than Donald Trump’s. In an August memorandum to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, the ...

Far from tamping down the problem, the Anthony Albanese government has been viciously maligning Israel since October 7, 2023.

The most constructive lesson from the Reiner murders is that all the money and coddling in the world won’t fix a person who ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s “freeze the rent” pledge for New York City’s 1 million rent-stabilized apartments was his best-known campaign initiative. But making good on that promise may require him ...

The Jewish-American scholar Saul Lieberman once quipped that “nonsense is nonsense, but the history of nonsense is scholarship.” Lieberman was referring to Kabbalistic mysticism, but the principle is ...

The world being what it is, there is always plenty of justification for pessimism. Christmas can be especially difficult if we are facing illness, divorce, or financial hardship. The season’s jollity ...

On a recent visit to a thriving all-girls’ high school in Brooklyn, I was reminded of how institutions like this have long made New York a place where families can live, grow, and educate their ...