The education story of the year has been the “Southern Surge.” An intrepid group of southern states have led the nation in ...

In his preface to “A Christmas Carol,” Charles Dickens expresses the hope that his “little book” would “not put my readers out of humor with themselves.” But he obviously wanted to induce ...

In New York City, making a profit on real estate has become increasingly difficult. Rent-stabilization laws built on the ...

Australia does not want its most iconic symbols—the Opera House and Bondi Beach—to become emblems of hatred and violence. But ...

Far from tamping down the problem, the Anthony Albanese government has been viciously maligning Israel since October 7, 2023.

The most constructive lesson from the Reiner murders is that all the money and coddling in the world won’t fix a person who ...

Cultural attitudes toward violence—or, in the case of many Asians, toward nonviolence—help explain why poverty alone doesn’t ...

Creative destruction, or competition, is what drives technological innovation and economic growth. Schumpeter’s views on ...

A few weeks ago, my friend Maralyn Beck, a child welfare advocate in New Mexico, received an urgent text message from a 22-year-old woman who had recently aged out of the foster-care system. She was ...

The Jewish-American scholar Saul Lieberman once quipped that “nonsense is nonsense, but the history of nonsense is scholarship.” Lieberman was referring to Kabbalistic mysticism, but the principle is ...