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August 8, 2026
Who Is My Enemy? I’m No Longer Sure.
Where does the side of the angels really lie?
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August 6, 2026
Scott Galloway on What It Takes to Raise Good Men
The author and academic attributes some of his success to a system that supported “unremarkable” young men.
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August 4, 2026
Can Trump Wriggle Out One Last Time?
Between Iran and the midterms, his decade of rebounds and comebacks might be over.
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August 1, 2026
Why We Can’t Stop Talking About ‘The Odyssey’
Christopher Nolan’s film is perfectly calibrated for the culture war.
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July 30, 2026
Why Won’t America’s Aging Elite Retire?
How the elderly hoard the future.
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July 25, 2026
Why Vance Still Trumps Rubio
There’s no evidence that the president regards his vice president more skeptically because of his initial opposition to the war.
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July 23, 2026
Iran, China, Canada? A Defense of Trump’s Grand Strategy
A Pentagon official argues that “people can no longer take the United States for granted.”
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July 16, 2026
A Vision of a ‘Society Without Capitalism’
Can democratic socialism redeem the left without destroying capitalism?
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July 14, 2026
Lindsey Graham Made Trumpism in His Own Image
He bent the knee and made the most of it.
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July 9, 2026
Preparing for ‘Weimar America’
“It may not be Hitler 2.0. It may not be Stalin 2.0. It might be something all American, but it’s not going to be what we’re used to,” the author Rod Dreher argues.
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July 4, 2026
The Unifying Speech We Won’t Get This Independence Day
America, we need a new beginning.
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June 25, 2026
Is It Time for a New Sexual Revolution?
One that actually brings men and women together.
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June 18, 2026
Will the Iran Deal Last? JD Vance Is Betting His Future on It.
“If you think this is a bad deal, what is your alternative?”
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June 16, 2026
The Battle With Anthropic Is the Start of a New Kind of Conflict
The A.I. wars are here.
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June 13, 2026
Does U.F.O. Disclosure Threaten Faith?
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ and the God-and-aliens debate.
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June 11, 2026
Better Sex, Better Hair, Better Sleep: ‘Humanmaxxing’ Is Here
The biotech billionaire who wants to rebuild your body and blow your mind.
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June 9, 2026
For America’s 250th, Let’s Get Something Clear About Our National Identity
It depends on both ideas and cultural inheritance.
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June 5, 2026
The MAGA Representative Crusading Against Government Secrecy
Anna Paulina Luna on Epstein, J.F.K. and U.F.O.s.
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May 30, 2026
The Best News in America
A low murder rate is by no means the only measure of a good society. But it’s a pretty good measure of a society’s underlying stability.
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May 29, 2026
Interesting Times: Why Are We Still Driving?
Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
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May 28, 2026
Our Military Is Built for the Wrong Century
Ukraine and Iran have shown us that war as we’ve known it is over.
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May 23, 2026
What A.I. Philanthropists Can Learn From the Gilded Age
Leave a physical legacy to future generations, not just a record of programs and disbursements.
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May 21, 2026
A Defense of a Liberal Arts Education in the Age of A.I.
Making the case for a “useless” education.
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May 16, 2026
China’s Peak Is Now
Does Xi Jinping see the world this way?
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May 14, 2026
China Doesn’t Worry About A.I. Like We Do
The difference in perspectives between superpowers is shaping the race for A.I. dominance.
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