[ad_1] The cover of The New York Times’ on a newsstand in New York, May 24, 2020 (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) For peddlers of ideology, free inquiry is a business risk — hence the obsession with stamping out samizdat. Two weeks ago, the author of the Slate Star Codex (SSC) blog deleted its archive after a New

[ad_1] A man pushes his bike in a closed park with the New York City skyline of Manhattan and the Empire State Building visible beyond in Weehawken, N.J., April 18, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) The Feds can help address surging urban crime. They cannot quell it. In New York City, 49 people were shot over the

[ad_1] Sunny day at Radcliffe Camera, in Oxford, UK England. (Getty Images) The John and Daria Barry Scholarship sends students to Oxford, and charges them with building a community that respects the past and attends to the future. Almost exactly 2,450 years ago, in 430 b.c., a plague devastated the democratic city-state of Athens, killing

[ad_1] New York Police Department (NYPD) officers stand guard in riot gear on City Hall as demonstrations continue in the “City Hall Autonomous Zone” established to protest the New York Police Department in support of “Black Lives Matter” in New York, N.Y., June 30, 2020.  (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) This has to be one of the weirdest

[ad_1] Students and pedestrians walk through the Yard at Harvard University after the school asked its students not to return to campus after Spring Break and said it would move to virtual instruction for graduate and undergraduate classes in Cambridge, Mass., March 10, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Monday that foreign students

[ad_1] Keisha Lance Bottoms, Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, speaks at the Concordia Summit in New York, N.Y., September 24, 2018. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has contracted COVID-19, she announced on Twitter Monday. “COVID-19 has literally hit home. I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive,” Bottoms, 50, tweeted.  The first-term mayor

[ad_1] Protesters rip apart a U.S. flag during nationwide unrest following the death of George Floyd in Raleigh, N.C., May 30, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) May 25, 0 NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE E very cultural revolution starts at year zero, whether explicitly or implicitly. The French Revolution recalibrated the calendar to begin anew, and the genocidal Pol

[ad_1] (PatriceO/iStock/Getty Images Plus) For the new moralists of cancel culture, there is no context. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke took aim at Lord George Gordon, who had led the anti-Catholic riots that bore his name. By the time of the Reflections, Gordon resided in Newgate

[ad_1] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks in front of stacks of medical protective supplies during a news conference at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, which will be partially converted into a temporary hospital during the coronavirus outbreak, March 24, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) The New York State Department of Health

[ad_1] Students and pedestrians walk through the Yard at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., March 10, 2020. (Brian Snyder -/File Photo/Reuters) Harvard University announced that it was canceling in-person classes for the entire upcoming academic year because of COVID-19. Students can attend digital Harvard for the exact same price. Some of my fellow conservatives are wondering

[ad_1] Bubba Wallace walks down pit row prior to the Pocono Organics 325 at Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, Penn., Jun 27, 2020. (Matt Slocum/USA TODAY Network via Reuters) President Trump called on NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace to apologize after an FBI investigation determined there was no hate crime when an alleged “noose” was found in

[ad_1] President Trump watches the Navy Blue Angels aerial flypast during the Independence Day Mount Rushmore celebrations in Keystone, S.D., July 3, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) With his unidimensional messaging, President Trump has proven unable to respond to a cultural crisis with anything but a culture war. Speaking on national television two weeks ago, French president

[ad_1] In an opinion issued today in East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Barr, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled unanimously that plaintiffs—nonprofit organizations that represent asylum seekers—were entitled to injunctive relief against a rule jointly issued by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security. Under that rule, aliens who did not previously seek

[ad_1] People hold signs to celebrate the Supreme Court’s ruling to disallow the rescinding of the DACA program, in San Diego, Calif., June 18, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The Trump administration will re-up its attempt to end President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program this week after the Supreme Court blocked its latest effort last

[ad_1] A polling station in Brooklyn, New York, November 4, 2014 (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states may remove presidential electors who fail to vote for the candidate who wins the state’s popular vote. The justices voted unanimously that states may require so-called faithless electors to vote for the presidential candidate for whom they

[ad_1] Harvard University, November 16, 2012 (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) Harvard University has announced it will implement online learning for all courses during the coming academic year, while tuition for the Ivy League school will remain about $50,000. Up to 40 percent of undergraduate students will be cleared to live on campus this fall, including all incoming

[ad_1] A deli closed due to the coronavirus outbreak in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 26, 2020. (Stephen Yang/Reuters) Retail stores are shuttering store locations permanently at an unprecedented rate as the coronavirus pandemic accelerates the transition to new selling methods for some companies and forces others into bankruptcy. As many as 100,000 brick-and-mortar retail stores in

[ad_1] Hospital staff work at the United Memorial Medical Center’s intensive care unit amid the coronavirus pandemic in Houston, Texas, June 29, 2020. (Callaghan O’Hare/Reuters) A number of Texas cities are warning that the level of hospitalized coronavirus patients they are experiencing could cause hospitals to run out of beds in as little as two

[ad_1] Protesters rally against racial inequality and the police shooting death of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, Ga., June 13, 2020. (Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters) The mayor of Atlanta is forcing protesters to “clear out” of the Wendy’s where a police officer fatally shot Rayshard Brooks last month after a violent night that included a dozen shootings citywide

[ad_1] Pro-democracy demonstrators march during a protest to mark the first anniversary of a mass rally against the now-withdrawn extradition bill in Hong Kong, China, June 9, 2020. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters) Facing terrible persecution, they appreciate the blessings of democracy. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Chinese Communist Party sent invisible tanks rolling into Hong Kong when

[ad_1] UCLA campus in 2009. (File photo: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) The litany of examples grows. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T here are a number of ways an activist movement can quantify its progress: number of statues toppled, Twitter exposure, law changes, and so on. But real change takes time — who can wait for a legislature to

[ad_1] U.S. flag at the Lincoln Memorial during a protest to mark Juneteenth amid nationwide protests against racial inequality in Washington, D.C., June 19, 2020. (Erin Scott/Reuters) The pandemic and civil unrest place new strains on public narratives. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s Joan Didion wrote in the beginning of The White Album, “we tell

[ad_1] (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) The filibuster is useful, because it is useful in a democracy to be able to say “No” to the people and to their duly elected representatives. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he Democrats are feeling cocky about their chances in November, not only of seeing off Donald J. Trump to whatever awaits

[ad_1] Workmen install solar panels on a home at Scripps Ranch in San Diego, Calif., in 2016. (Mike Blake/Reuters) The energy sources that environmentalists want us to depend on are themselves dependent on overseas materials and components. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE C hildren scrabbling with bare hands, never mind shovels, and carrying bags of rocks is

[ad_1] The Declaration of Independence (Wikimedia Commons) 1776—The Declaration of Independence is a stirring statement of America’s creed, but is it also a sexist and xenophobic document? Defending the Supreme Court’s increasing use of foreign law in support of its rulings on the meaning of the Constitution, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg titles a 2005 speech

[ad_1] Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic during a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., June 30, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) It is laughable for Biden, of all people, to claim that Trump’s administration has been a gift to Putin. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE H ard to fathom which

[ad_1] (Comstock/Stockbyte/Getty) Until our leaders stand up and speak out against our self-appointed speech police, no one will be safe. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ur Founders sought to protect federal judges from the whims of the mob by granting them life tenure, and making them removable only through impeachment by the House and conviction by

[ad_1] Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a video conference call in Moscow, June 30, 2020. (Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via Reuters) Amid a surge in domestic discontent with his regime, the Russian president is moving to tighten his grip on the country’s Web access. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE V ladimir Putin is stepping up his war

[ad_1] (Getty Images) Study after study has demonstrated that most pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A s Americans discuss black livelihood in the context of recent high-profile black deaths at the hands of police officers, a merciless villain is quietly snatching away thousands of black lives each year: infant mortality. To be sure,

[ad_1] Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Dallas, Texas, U.S., May 4, 2018. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) Texas governor Greg Abbott signed an executive order Thursday requiring Texans in counties with 20 or more positive coronavirus cases to wear a face covering in public, reversing an executive order from