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The MAGA War on Ukraine

Why does so much of the US Right hate a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression?

Cathy Young

14 Mar 2025 · 13 min read

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Antiscientific Vandalism

Musk and Trump are inflicting catastrophic damage on biomedical research.

Evan D Morris

3 Mar 2025 · 6 min read

The End of NATO, or The Sixth Impossible Thing

The Trump administration has liquidated the postwar international order.

Adam Garfinkle

1 Mar 2025 · 20 min read

The Christopher Wren Building at the College of William & Mary is an old building, at the end of an avenue of trees. .

Universities Are Worth Saving

Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.

Jonathan Rauch

18 Feb 2025 · 14 min read

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The Many Faces of ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’

Alexandre Dumas’s novel is by turns an adventure story, a paean to bourgeois values, and a Greek epic. No wonder it continues to fascinate.

Stewart Slater

14 Mar 2025 · 9 min read

Francis Collins, an older man with grey hair and glasses, looks towards the camera. He wears a suit and tie.

Religion: A Bad Prescription for America

Though faith may provide comfort to some, it cannot produce reliable facts about nature that can be used to repair a divided populace.

Jerry A. Coyne

13 Mar 2025 · 9 min read

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Saving the Animals

Assuring the long-term future of Earth’s wildlife requires more economic and technological development, not less.

Saul Zimet

13 Mar 2025 · 13 min read

Peter Welsh, an older man in a suit, faces demonstrators who are holding a banner reading, "Put US back to work."

The Political Foundations of the DOGE Scam

The Trump/Musk administration’s approach to cutting costs makes good political sense in the short-run. But from a longer-run governing perspective, it is a recipe for disaster.

R. Shep Melnick

11 Mar 2025 · 7 min read

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Hamas and Feminist Dissonance

Forced to choose between believing the claims of Israeli women and maintaining solidarity with Palestinians, Western academic feminists chose the latter.

Sonya Michel

11 Mar 2025 · 20 min read

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An Unsettling Approach to Academic Freedom

The American Association of University Professors once defended heterodox thinkers. It now supports mandatory DEI statements and calls rival organisations right-wing stooges.

Andy Lamey

10 Mar 2025 · 28 min read

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