Academia has become intellectually stagnant, but it might help to revive the Devil's Advocate as a pedagogical tool.
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Slow Horses is a spy thriller worthy of Gordon Tullock.
A two-state solution in the foreseeable future is at best dubious and at worst delusional.
If American society is to let go of its resentment and rage, it must learn to forgive.
The Establishment Clause, unlike the other First Amendment provisions, is not based on freestanding personal freedoms.
What’s needed today is a heavy dose of trust-busting, deregulation, and entrepreneurial energy.
Intellectual humility is needed for scientists and economists to understand and address the problems that confront them.
Politicians have no incentive to face our debt crisis. We need institutional constraints.
Princeton has been expending considerable energy on what to do about the campus statue of its sixth president, John Witherspoon.
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What explains the transfer of power from elected representative institutions to the judiciary in Israel?
In the rise of the Third Reich, we see how the ideological coordination of culture can swamp democratic safeguards.
There's an eerie parallel at work between Ignatius Reilly and vain, overeducated young adults who can’t hold a job, live healthily, or maintain a friend.
Why don’t people stand up and oppose the vocal minority in politics, religion, and education?
Western involvement in Ukraine has quickly gone from a euphoric cause célèbre to a catastrophe.
Sorting out responsibility for the opioid epidemic is difficult business, and extracting symbolic protection money doesn’t help.