Parenthood Cannot Be Optimized
Amanda Hess’s new book examines a surplus of experts and gadgets that promise to perfect the experience of raising children.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won.
The Short-Circuiting of the American Mind
A century-old book foresaw Trump’s most basic strategy.
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 Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
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.
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.”
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
The Dark Ages Are Back
Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.
Why Are Young People Everywhere So Unhappy?
Here’s the answer to that—and what we can do about it.
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
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