I thank Graham McAleer for his thoughtful review of The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy. 　　McAleer makes a number of intelligent observations and fair-minded criticisms. My most substantial disagreement concerns his claim that Eric Voegelin provides a ready solution to our dilemmas. McAleer writes: 　　Voegelin argues that an enduring polity has a resilient symbol that...

　　What if peoples’ failures were never their fault but the product of genetic or environmental conditions into which they were born? Would such news be a cause for celebration regarding the newfound potential to improve these unfortunate circumstances and prevent human suffering, or would it be viewed as dangerous, a threat to the individual responsibility essential for any decent society?...

　　I recently published the bookThe End of Woman. In it, I drilled down into first-wave feminism to demonstrate that many of the defining characteristics of feminism we live with today emerged earlier than most realize. My fundamental critique of feminism is that it started with the wrong question, asking: “How to make women more like men?” As a result, this...

　　When New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano finds himself in the office of psychologist Jennifer Melfi in the pilot episode of The Sopranos 1999, she asks him a number of questions. About his family, his work, and the panic attack that landed him, against his inclination, in psychotherapy. 　　He asks her only one: “What ever happened to Gary Cooper?” 　　Contrasting...

　　The resignation of Claudine Gay provides a window into many pathologies of elite universities—antisemitism on campus, the prioritization of DEI over merit, and plagiarism among academics. But it also reflects their poor governance. The Harvard Corporation made mistake after mistake—first, in deciding to hire Gay, then, in defending her after a disastrous performance before Congress and substantial allegations of plagiarism....

　　I confess I start every year with a song of hope—even for the three-ring circus in Washington, DC. And I end every year with a song of despair. 　　For the most recent fiscal year, the federal government spent about a quarter of US GDP. American businesses spent almost 2 trillion or roughly another 10% of GDP complying with federal regulations....

　　From childhood, he has admired the straightlaced singing cowboy Gene Autry he’s also the world’s most famous pot-smoking hippie. His band is called The Family, and he’s well known for his long-term friendships and deep loyalty his own family life was often in shambles. He was instrumental in reviving an unpolished, rugged country style by rejecting the pop-music inspired “Nashville...

　　Half a century ago, a largely forgotten economist received the unexpected news that he had been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Friedrich A. Hayek was equally surprised to find himself sharing the sixth Nobel Prize in Economics with Gunnar Myrdal. The Swedish economist’s decidedly social democratic views could not have been more...

　　In December 2023, the Biden Administration released the much anticipated, and much criticized, “2023 Horizontal Merger Guidelines.” The Guidelines, which are a joint production of the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice, are meant to be a reference tool to advise enforcers on how to scrutinize merging firms. They updated the agencies’ enforcement priorities, procedures, and expectations from...

　　On January 26, the Venezuelan judiciary made an unsurprising announcement. Despite the agreements signed in October with the US government and the Venezuela opposition, the presidential opposition candidate, María Corina Machado, would not be allowed to run for the presidency. Machado, a center-right former legislator, won the primary election in October, taking 90% of the vote over other opposition candidates....

　　Two dominant features characterize American democracy today: endless war and suppression of domestic dissent. 　　When the Cold War ended, the United States had the opportunity to become, as Jeane Kirkpatrick described it, “a normal country in a normal time.” Instead, the United States promptly sent half a million soldiers to the faraway Middle East to save the throne for an...

　　Sunday, January 21, 2024, was a day of celebration for the committed Left online and within higher education. Many Communists across the world marched, gave speeches, and mourned the passing of the founder of one of the world’s most brutal regimes. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his revolutionary pseudonym V. I. Lenin, died on January 21, 1924, having constructed...