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Two Cheers for the Great Books by Michael S.

Politicians Aren’t Our Friends by Louise Perry Compare this with how people of the past interacted with their politicians—that is, hardly at all.

“This is Going to Surprise Some People”: Leading Biden COVID-19 Figure Embraces the Lab Leak Theory by Jonathan Turley “This is going to surprise some people.

Glen Hansard Made Beautiful Music by Kyle Smith Musicians have a rare gift in that their art is inherently social.

A Libertarian Case for Regulating Sports Betting by Logan Tantibanchachai As to the second condition for regulation — its efficacy — several studies suggest that these limited measures can reduce high-risk gambling.

The Pocket Adam Smith by Julia R.

What I Learned at Alexis de Tocqueville’s Birthday Dinner by Will Ogilvie Vega de Seoane Although Tocqueville never knew him personally, Malesherbes occupied a permanent place in his imagination.

Welcome to Secular Sharia by River Page > With secular sharia, any day can be Judgment Day—and the internet was ready and primed to judge these two sinning lawyers.

All Hail Queen Sophie by Kyle Smith All of this was mere overture to an even more attention-capturing move by Ms.

The End of ‘El Mayo’ Is Only the Beginning by Joshua S.

The Baseball Tax That Made the Great Depression Worse by Antón Chamberlin Baseball during the Great Depression is only one memorable example.

7th Prime Minister in 10 years by Bill Glahn The 7th in ten years, dating back to David Cameron in 2016.

America Needs the Filibuster by Ben Sasse When partisans talk about killing or “reforming” the filibuster, they’re saying they want to turn the Senate into another House of Representatives.

Let Swifties Be Swifties by Shira Kaplan Every Taylor Swift-dedicated space allows the fan to act as an exegete: poring over CD liners with hidden messages, going frame-by-frame in music videos to find secret clues, analyzing the words she uses in intervi…

This Week in American History: How to Say Goodbye to a King by Jonathan Horn At a time when the written word could travel no faster than the riders carrying it, news of the Declaration took time to spread.

When Uncle Sam Turns Venture Capitalist, What Could Go Wrong?

America’s Indispensable Man by Wilfred M.

The Rise of Grocery Tourism by Nicole James > I loved the products.

The enduring promise of America by Joel Kotkin The greatest Americans – Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, the Roosevelts – may be horrified by the banality of Trump’s America today, as well as its gaping fiscal worries.

Europe Chooses to Broil by Matthew Hennessey European homes aren’t air-conditioned the way American homes are, and the consequences are proving deadly.

America’s Promise and Achievement by Leonidas Zelmanovitz History offers sobering reminders of how fragile civilizations can be.

A Time of Monsters by Jonathan Rosen Walter Russell Mead identified a version of this phenomenon in his book The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, where he likened obsessive, magical thinking about the “Israel

Mexico’s Yūshūkan Mindset by Joshua S.

America’s Immigrant Soccer Team The U.S. team last week clinched a spot in the knockout round after defeating Australia.

Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Fed, dies at age 100 by Marty Steinberg > The influential economist died Monday at his home from complications of Parkinson’s Disease, said his wife of 29 years, Andrea Mitchell, the chief Washington correspondent and