Free Speech Prevails at Princeton
by Robert P. GeorgeBy declining to investigate and punish Joshua Katz’s speech, Princeton has honored—and thereby reaffirmed—its commitment to free speech and robust discussion. Continue Reading »
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The Problem With Online Learning
by Mark BauerleinAcademic content is now implicated in a technology that youths have been primed to use, interpret, and value for different purposes. Continue Reading »
Totalitarian Speech Regimes
by John William O’SullivanA totalitarian speech regime must impose its rules through institutions that the majority of people see as alien; an organic speech regime relies on implicit consensus. Continue Reading »
Honoring the Elderly
by Charles C. CamosyIf the pandemic has a silver lining, it is that it has forced us to reexamine how our culture treats the elderly. Continue Reading »
The State of Fictional Espionage
by John WilsonDavid Ignatius’s The Paladin tells a compelling story that (among other things) gives the worn-out phrase “fake news” a new urgency. Continue Reading »
The Rabbi Who Chose Trans Orthodoxy
by Sarah RindnerFor Yaakov Smith, a transgender person who lives and teaches in Jerusalem, Orthodoxy is a bit like the exaggerated femininity of the drag queen. Continue Reading »
What We’ve Been Reading—July 2020
by EditorsMark Bauerlein on William F. Buckley's The Unmaking of a Mayor and Veronica Clarke on Tara Isabella Burton's Social Creature. Continue Reading »
Liars Go to Hell
by Francis X. MaierAt a time when lying, bullying, and violence seem to be making a comeback, the film Mr. Jones is a useful lesson in consequences. Continue Reading »
The Next Pope and Vatican Diplomacy
by George WeigelVatican diplomacy seems to be reverting to a Casaroli-style accommodation of thuggish regimes. Continue Reading »
Mrs. America’s Mistakes
by Helen AndrewsMrs. America imagines that it can safely romanticize Schlafly’s pastel-colored suburban world because no woman today could possibly want to go back to it. Continue Reading »
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