For too long, policymakers and businesses have made decisions on the belief that costs don’t matter. Reality is reasserting itself.

Progressive policies threaten a new era of urban dysfunction.

Women prefer the mommy track.

Misguided compassion hurts the poor.

Proposals to improve care for the seriously mentally ill

Today’s state hospital patients sit idle on massive grounds designed to sustain meaningful work.

Replacing cops with social workers for mental-health emergencies is fraught with risk.

Humane institutionalization can help the mentally ill and protect society.

In Louisiana v. Callais, the justices will have a chance to restore the 1965 Voting Rights Act to its original purpose.

Democratic attacks on Trump’s census proposals ignore the problems caused by drawing congressional districts according to residents, not citizens.

In a nakedly political ruling, the state’s highest court has given the Democratic-controlled legislature another chance to draw a gerrymandered congressional map.

The hidden story of the 2012 elections

A symposium on higher education in the United States

The long chronicle of presidential assassinations and attempted assassinations reveals certain commonalities and one overarching lesson.

Egalitarians seek the radical transformation of our society.

Banksy’s wit and talent don’t excuse his vandalism and juvenility.

Proposals to improve care for the seriously mentally ill

A symposium on higher education in the United States

A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States

Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency

Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline

A symposium on restoring the principle of color blindness

Rotherham’s child sexual assaults remain shocking—but far from unique.

America’s crime policies and soft border are enabling its enemies.

The assassination of Brian Thompson does not call for a “conversation” about health care—it calls for a reckoning with Americans’ moral breakdown.

The Biden administration should adopt a strong stance against all political violence—including the anti-Semitic mayhem on college campuses.

A witty and erudite homage to alcohol concedes its drawbacks but makes the case for its social—and civilizational—utility.

America is on the verge of a new space age—if apathy doesn’t kill it.

How did college football become indistinguishable from professional sports? Gradually, and then suddenly.

An innovative program combines reading the Great Books with character-building and community.

Hope endures if courage and faith can.

Remembering Charles Dickens’s first visit to New York

A personal reflection on why we shouldn’t abandon the faith that has nourished Western civilization

Looking back on a Chicago childhood in the 1940s

The key to increasing upward mobility is expanding vocabulary.

Teach black kids to read.

An unusual charter school network, serving middle-class families, promotes a classical curriculum—and gets results.

The great American comic satirized white racism, his fellow blacks, and himself.