The Man Who Will Do Anything for Trump
Why Kash Patel is exactly the kind of person who would serve in a second Trump administration
The Worst Advice Parents Can Give First-Year Students
Today’s college students will have ample time to figure out their careers. Before that, encourage them to take risks.
The Words People Write on Their Skin
On a small boat in Thailand, a young Korean tourist showed me the word High tattooed on his torso. “It’s because I like to get high,” he said.
What the Freshman Class Needs to Read
It is no small part of a liberal education to show students the broad range of meaningful lives they might aspire to lead.
The DNC Should Have Had a Palestinian American Speaker
Supporters of the Palestinian cause have been left with few options politically.
TV Still Runs Politics
Just about every major development in the current presidential campaign started as a television event.
Sometimes You Just Have to Ignore the Economists
Kamala Harris’s proposed price-gouging ban might irritate academics, but it makes sense to everyone else.
The Asterisk on Kamala Harris’s Poll Numbers
Pollsters think they’ve learned from their mistakes in 2020. Of course, they thought that last time too.
The Ultimate Happiness Diet
What we eat clearly has a bearing on our well-being. But the best recipe for success centers on how we eat.
Cape Cod Offers a Harbinger of America’s Economic Future
Spiraling housing prices in Provincetown are an extreme version of what’s happening in the U.S. as whole.
The False Narrative of Settler Colonialism
The rise of an academic theory and its obsession with Israel
The Warehouse Worker Who Became a Philosopher
Eleven years ago, the podcast host Stephen West was stocking groceries.
The American Con Man Who Pioneered Offshore Finance
How a now-obscure financier turned the Bahamas into a tax haven—and created a cornerstone of global plutocracy
Of Course Schools Are Day Care
Acknowledging that kids’ education is good for parents is not a knock against teachers.
The Civil-Rights Era’s Great Unanswered Question
Is this America?
My Brother Died. His Facebook Page Lives On.
The strange beauty of grieving on the internet
Should Parents Stay Home to Raise Kids?
And should the government pay them for it?
A Compliment That Really Means Something
Beware of pro forma praise—and recognize true acts of kindness instead.
My Criminal Record Somehow Vanished
And I got a glimpse of a world where felons like me are not forever haunted by our past.
To Save the World, My Mother Abandoned Me
She cared more about fomenting a socialist revolution than raising her child.