ideas
Stop the panicked fearmongering if we want to make the world better
The meaningful exchange of truly diverse ideas and perspectives has withered over recent decades.
Your ideal Valentine's Day date, based on your zodiac sign
Valentine's Day comes with some altogether unwelcome expectations; cheap chocolate, overpriced prix fixe menus, ugly stuffed animals and saccharin sentiments. Whether you spend the day in the company of lovers,...
‘Living hell’ and the destruction of academic freedom
No, unpopular ideas won't always prove right — but even when wrong, they can expose faults in the previous consensus. And if they go unheard, true progress becomes impossible.
What is the 'shower effect'? How bathing yields the best ideas: study
Many people say they have their best ideas in the shower -- and it turns out there's an actual reason to explain why.
RIP to the conservative thinker who took on the ruling class
One exception to the general cluelessness of the right-wing intelligentsia was Angelo Codevilla, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and professor at Boston University who died this week.
Pro-life elites befuddle rank-and-file with arcane debates
If you aren’t a law professor or one of a tiny circle of Americans with a sinecure at a right-wing think tank, you probably haven’t been following the new civil...
Happy 25th to City Journal --- the magazine that helped save NYC
An intellectually star-studded gathering the other night celebrated the 25th anniversary of City Journal, the Manhattan Institute quarterly that is a stellar think tank in and of itself. New Yorkers...
President Obama stands up for free speech on campus
Excerpted from President Obama’s answer Monday at a Des Moines, Iowa, town hall, after being asked about a proposal to cut funding for politically biased colleges. The purpose of college...