Harvard Begins to Confront Its Anti-Semitism Problem
A 300-page report makes for dismal reading.
We’ve Been Thinking About Love All Wrong
What illness taught me about true friendship
Trump Is Hiding Behind His Lawyers
The president wants to seize new powers, yet he’s also eager to hand off responsibility for hard decisions.
How the World Became Awash in Synthetics
It started in 1934, with a PR crisis.
The Pro-Family Policy This Nation Actually Needs
If the Trump administration wants more babies, it needs to embrace a different kind of parent.
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
The Plight of the Eldest Daughter
Women are expected to be nurturers. Firstborns are expected to be exemplars. Being both is exhausting.
Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber
A series of purposely brutalizing psychological experiments may have confirmed Theodore Kaczynski’s still-forming belief in the evil of science while he was in college.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
What Parents of Boys Should Know
Daughters tend to receive higher levels of affection and patience at home than sons. But the sons might need it more.
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.
The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
The Texas County Where ‘Everybody Has Somebody in Their Family’ With Dementia
And many people with the condition are cared for at home.
World War II: The Fall of Nazi Germany
Part 17 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II
Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids
Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
We’re Back to the Actually Internet
Fact-checking is out, “Community Notes” are in.
The SNL Sketch That Captured Millennial Anxiety
The guest host Quinta Brunson was the perfect fit to introduce “Forever 31.”
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