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New York braces for Mayor Zohran Mamdani

In June, after Zohran Mamdani somehow bulldozed through the New York Democratic mayoral primary and seized the nomination, I was walking through my neighborhood...

BBC exists to sustain its monopoly

An American friend described modern Britain to me as “a health service with a nuclear deterrent.” This is unfair. Modern Britain is a health...

Trump vs. the Democrats on the affordability crisis

The Democrats’ latest con job is blaming President Donald Trump for former President Joe Biden’s legacy inflation and claiming that Zohran Mamdani-style socialism will...

Ukraine’s fate and America’s interests

KYIV, Ukraine — Nobody can agree on an acceptable peace in Ukraine. Should Russia be allowed to keep the lands it took by force?...

Trigger warning: Immigrants, armed and American

The first time Nayara Andrejczyk fired a gun, she fell in love. It was a revolver, handed to her at a Pennsylvania range after years...

Making Magic: Review of ‘The Master of Contradictions’ by Morten Høi Jensen

Books on the politics of literary works can go wrong in at least two ways: They can reduce the significance of a literary work...

Peter Matthiessen, mystical Renaissance man

Peter Matthiessen was a towering figure in 20th-century American letters. He was a naturalist, environmentalist, Zen Buddhist priest, teacher, world traveler, CIA agent, and...

Rick Steves and the closing of the travel frontier

For Americans of a certain age and income bracket, Europe is synonymous with Rick Steves, a one-man travel impresario whose guidebooks and tour groups...

The long shadow of the federalist debates

“While I am a Jeffersonian in my genuine faith in democracy and popular government,” President Theodore Roosevelt once said, “I am a Hamiltonian in...

Pass-Fail

“How are your grades?” My father asked me, nearly 43 years ago, when I was home from college for the Thanksgiving holiday. In many...
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