One year ago, just after midnight on New Year’s Eve, a small brush fire broke out in Topanga State Park above the Pacific Palisades outside Los Angeles. Within hours, the Los Angeles Fire Department ...

In The Great Contradiction, Joseph Ellis reckons with the two evils that arose from the very liberty for which the Founders ...

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 ...

Amid the ongoing showdown between the Trump administration and the Ivy League, one university president has positioned himself as a leader of the academic resistance: Princeton’s Christopher L.

Do words have any meaning? Most people think so, which is why there is an endless debate about which words should be permitted by law, which should be a matter for the law, and which words should be ...

No presidential administration has taken anti-Asian discrimination in university admissions more seriously than Donald Trump’s. In an August memorandum to Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, the ...

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 ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s “freeze the rent” pledge for New York City’s 1 million rent-stabilized apartments was his best-known campaign initiative. But making good on that promise may require him ...

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 ...