How the rules of both entertainment and soft power are being rewritten
He must swallow his pride and accept a deal worse than the pre-war status quo
Kevin Warsh, the unlucky new chairman, has seen his case for lower interest rates disintegrate
It is suffering economic costs for its industrial dominance
THE YALE REVIEW (March 11, 2025): The latest issue features a central folio, “What Was AI?,” exploring artificial intelligence through essays from Lauren Oyler, Christopher Sorrentino, and Melanie Mitchell. The issue also includes new memoirs and essays from Annie Ernaux and Namwali Serpell, alongside a visual portfolio by Vera Molnár.
The dangerous unknowns at the heart of LLMs by Melanie Mitchell
How the American creed emerged—and evolved—over 250 years by Kathryn Lofton
Critics mourn a bygone cultural era. But nostalgia for the new isn’t new by Audrey Wollen
Why Americans aren’t celebrating the semiquincentennial by Samuel Moyn
I am back in writing hell. As if each time I start writing, I have to go through the same hell again. Annie Ernaux Unpublished journal entries
Pacific Research Institute: The latest issue features America’s 250th anniversary through profiles of historical figures like Benjamin Rush and R.C. Hoiles, while advocating for free-market healthcare and criticizing California’s policy landscape. The issue further highlights American culture through the influence of Sarah Josepha Hale and provides critical analyses of state leadership and economic policies.
PRI, in celebration of America’s 250th birthday, has produced a series of videos and supplemental lesson plans for teachers highlighting the achievements of some of this country’s, and California’s, in particular, greatest unsung heroes. Three of my favorites have been compiled in the pages that follow. The first profiles one of my heroes, Benjamin Rush, a physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Another features R.C. Hoiles, a free-market newspaper publisher whose son-in-law Dick Wallace served on the PRI board until his recent passing. Hoiles, a great defender of liberty, built a large group of newspapers around the country including the popular Orange County Register.
And we also honor Sarah Josepha Hale, a poet, author, and visionary force in American culture. She championed Thanksgiving until it became a national tradition and holiday. Through her magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book, she helped to shape American tastes from beloved recipes to the white wedding dress.
THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The rise of Gen-Z socialism‘….
The me-first doctrine is a threat to prosperity
It is not just rich places that are becoming less fertile
The EU should start drafting a full accession treaty now
High debt, disjointed markets and pugnacious trade policy all threaten the world’s safe asset
The World Cup is wonderful. It could be even better
SKEPTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Conspiracy Grift’
We founded Skeptic magazine and the Skeptics Society in 1992, partially in response to a market demand from consumers and the media for a scientific and rational response to increasingly tantalizing claims of the paranormal and supernatural, ESP and Psi, telepathy and telekinesis, NDEs and OBEs, ghosts and poltergeists, astrology and psychics, cryptozoology and strange creatures, haunted houses and mysterious places, UFOs and aliens, conspiracy theories and cults, and a litany of anomalous psychological experiences people reported.
I’m a humanistic weirdo, and as such I’m not sure where I belong in this modern culture war. I love truth and reason — I’ve built a career on them — but I belong to a humanistic tradition that refuses to stop at the head and leave the heart out of it. And these days there aren’t many of us. So when I look at the people we’ve come to call “anti-woke intellectuals”—many of whom have written for Skeptic or appeared as guests on The Michael Shermer Show podcast—I don’t see them the way either side wants me to.
DISSENT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘America At 250’
Introducing our Summer 2026 issue on America at 250. Patrick Iber
More so than at any point in the last century, U.S. independence now seems like a parochial affair. Aziz Rana
An interview with David Bateman and Julie C. Suk on the state of American democracy in 2026. Patrick Iber, David Bateman and Julie C. Suk
By invoking the American Revolution, twentieth-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for civil rights in the United States. Adom Getachew
Would we be better off living in the Middle Ages? Astonishingly, influential voices on the American intellectual Right now seem to think so. Rather than affirming the Enlightenment ideals that inspired this country’s founding—reason, rights, markets, liberal democracy, and church–state separation—they are longing for, of all things, rule from the throne and altar. Last October …
On the 200th anniversary of his death on July 4, 1826, and the 250th anniversary of his Declaration of Independence, we need Thomas Jefferson now more than ever. We especially need his progressive views on the severance of church from state by a “wall of separation.” We in the United States live in troubling times …
The question confronting American educators today is not whether we should teach ethics to children—virtually everyone agrees that moral education is essential. The question is how we should teach ethics in an increasingly diverse society where traditional religious approaches no longer work for everyone. I believe we need to fundamentally rethink our approach to moral …
HARPER’S MAGAZINE: The latest issue features a memoir from a Quebec garbageman; Katie Thornton on the undying dream of Esperanto; Wyatt Williams on weather modification; Andrew Cockburn on the data-center divide; Kevin Lozano on Bernie Goetz; and a story from Kevin Brazil.
On the life of the garbageman by Simon Paré-Poupart
[Letter from the Czech Republic]
The undying dream of Esperanto by Katie Thornton
The battle over weather modification by Wyatt Williams
THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features The men who don’t want women to vote, a venture-capital populist, Karl Lagerfeld’s feline heir, and new fiction by Stephen King. Plus the Indianapolis Clowns, how to win on Jeopardy, Lee Friedlander, heartland rock, Denyce Graves, Elizabeth Strout, alien conspiracy theories, the U.S. centennial, and more.
A virulent form of misogyny has become the single most important force holding together the American right. By Helen Lewis
Did Karl Lagerfeld really leave millions to his blue-cream Birman, Choupette? By Chris Heath
How David Sacks and the new tech right went full MAGA and captured Washington By George Packer
COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Covenant And The Wooden Box’ – The Betrayal of Britain’s Jews and the Corruption of Its Ruling Class.
by Mike Burke
The betrayal of Britain’s Jews and the corruption of its ruling class
In the northeast corner of Parliament Square, in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament, stands a bronze figure 12 feet high. Winston Churchill chose the spot himself in the 1950s, drawing a circle on a map and declaring with the finality of a man who knew his own place in history: “That is where my statue will go.” It was unveiled on the 1st of November in 1973. When the Queen spoke, she revealed a secret that Churchill himself had guarded: When offered a dukedom at the end of his life, he turned it down. He wished to spend his remaining years in the House of Commons—the Parliament he had saved, and that he loved more than any title the Crown could bestow.
For a decade, we’ve been awash in analogies between America in the Age of Trump and Germany in the two decades following World War I.
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