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  • How Nostalgia Drives Both Political Parties

    How Nostalgia Drives Both Political Parties0

    Every day, we’re confronted by headlines that reveal the ever-widening chasm between left and right in America. What’s driving this hyperpolarization? And are there any solutions? Thanks to a stimulating conversation with National Affairs editor Yuval Levin of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and independent scholar and economist Arnold Kling, I’m learning that there are some pretty

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  • How New York’s Wealthy Parents Try to Raise ‘Unentitled’ Kids

    How New York’s Wealthy Parents Try to Raise ‘Unentitled’ Kids0

    Wealthy parents seem to have it made when it comes to raising their children. They can offer their kids the healthiest foods, the most attentive caregivers, the best teachers and the most enriching experiences, from international vacations to unpaid internships in competitive fields. Yet these parents have a problem: how to give their kids these

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  • How New York Officials Spread the Coronavirus Among the Working Poor

    How New York Officials Spread the Coronavirus Among the Working Poor0

    New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio wants New Yorkers to snitch on each other. If a New Yorker sees someone who is not practicing prescribed social distancing rules, de Blasio wants them to snap a picture and send it to 311.  Is your supermarket too crowded with people trying to feed their families? Text 311.

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  • How New Rules Allow Men to Dominate Women’s Sports

    How New Rules Allow Men to Dominate Women’s Sports0

    • January 16, 2020

    Women’s athletics have been a subject of a growing transgender inclusion controversy that threatens to blow open wide as high school sports, college, the Olympics, and even the professional level are grappling with how to balance fairness with a new demand for “inclusion.” There are questions about how transgender athletes should qualify for participation, and

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  • How New Orleans Schools Turned Around After Katrina

    How New Orleans Schools Turned Around After Katrina0

    • August 28, 2015

    This week marks the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. For non-residents of Louisiana, the news of the Hurricane was a dark cloud over their lives for a few days, which then moved on as the initial disaster passed out of the news. For others, the effects of the disaster remain present. But what was a

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  • How Nat Turner’s Failed Revolt Changed the Debate on Slavery

    How Nat Turner’s Failed Revolt Changed the Debate on Slavery0

    On August 22, 1831, a group of slaves began a revolt in the county of Southampton, Virginia, that would go down in history as the largest uprising against the Peculiar Institution in nineteenth-century America. The rebellion was led by Nat Turner, a slave from Southampton, one of the few southern counties where black Americans were

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