September 15 2025


Politics September 8, 2025

Liberalism is a lost cause

Liberal economies, which promise prosperity, cannot produce the main thing they need to guarantee it

Christopher Caldwell

Europe September 8, 2025

America is obsessed with the UK’s decline

As a patriot, I’d like to rebut this barbaric assault on my own country. The trouble is, I can’t

Sean Thomas

Europe September 8, 2025

What is Charles Kushner doing in Paris?

The ambassador is right to call out French anti-Semitism

Gavin Mortimer

Politics September 8, 2025

The defense industry and the US government are inextricably linked

Close examination indicates that in the US, one branch of the bureaucracy buys weapons from another

Andrew Cockburn

Business September 8, 2025

I’m the heir to Manhattan

Wall Street, Broadway, One World Trade Center — they’re all mine

Gus Carter

Law September 8, 2025

Trump’s battle against the tyranny of lawfare

The President has to be one of the most punished people in American history

Roger Kimball

Culture September 8, 2025

Inside the cult of Equinox

Fueled by a mysterious marketing campaign, the gym now has more than 100 outposts

James Panero

Education September 8, 2025

How the Spartans got fighting fit

Trump could usefully add elements of the early training invented by Lycurgus

Peter Jones

Politics September 8, 2025

How the right learned to love the state

Make government agencies serve social conservative ends and what will be the left’s response?

Daniel McCarthy

Business September 8, 2025

The West can’t afford to shun Russian oil

Fears of an energy-led recession twisted the Biden administration into the mental pretzel that still prevails

Owen Matthews

China September 8, 2025

How powerful is the China-Russia alliance?

In the new global order, the US must pivot away from Europe

Tom Switzer

Media September 8, 2025

How my sister Ghislaine beat the Epstein conspiracy theories

The nine-hour interview generated an all-too predictable uproar

Ian Maxwell

Culture September 8, 2025

The truth about the trans school shooter

Segments of the media were conspicuously incurious about how ‘she’ came to be consumed by such commonly masculine rage

Lionel Shriver

Business September 8, 2025

Nationalizing America will cost us dearly

This President has now set his sights on America’s real power engine: the private sector

Kate Andrews

Technology September 8, 2025

The trend for unsparing cancer tales on TikTok

Scrolling through the DeathTok videos is an uncomfortably voyeuristic experience

Damian Thompson

Technology September 8, 2025

AI is revolutionizing the film industry

‘It won’t be long,’ says Yonatan Dor, ‘before screen actors are a thing of the past’

Damian Reilly

Technology September 8, 2025

Why do journalists go easy on Sam Altman?

OpenAI’s leader is a terrific huckster and self-promoter, in a league with Trump and Musk

John R. MacArthur