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
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
The Evisceration of Hong Kong From laissez-faire to lèse-majesté: an embarrassment in four fits. Geoff Privisant 11 Feb 2025 · 13 min read
Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it. Thomas F. Powers 8 Feb 2025 · 44 min read
Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures. Claire Lehmann 12 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state. Jonathan Kay 7 Jan 2025 · 8 min read
Syria and the Changing Global Calculus Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain. Joshua Muravchik 31 Dec 2024 · 19 min read
Printing the Legend The naysayers are dead wrong about James Mangold’s remarkable new film about Bob Dylan and the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early 1960s. Ronald Radosh 26 Dec 2024 · 15 min read
Madonnas in the Louvre A Christmas Message from the Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann 24 Dec 2024 · 5 min read
The Trial of Daniel Penny Perhaps the most damaging aspect of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s racial-equity regime has been the perception of racial unfairness it created in one of America’s most racially diverse cities. Eli Steele 17 Dec 2024 · 17 min read
A Very American Madness America is not fallen; it is simply given to periodic bouts of insanity. The patient is tiresome; the patient is ridiculous; but the patient is stable. Ronald W. Dworkin 12 Dec 2024 · 17 min read
Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’ University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a UWO tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights. Jonathan Kay 29 Nov 2024 · 24 min read
An Unscientific American Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology. Michael Shermer 21 Nov 2024 · 12 min read
