September 29 2025


Culture September 22, 2025

Tyler Robinson is not an ambassador of the American left

Don’t reward misguided murderousness by grandly designating a senseless assassination a historical watershed

Lionel Shriver

Politics September 22, 2025

Why tech leaders are obsessing over Heaven and Hell

Mavens argue that Silicon Valley’s engineers should see their work as part of a greater divine plan

Luke Lyman

Politics September 22, 2025

The inadequate response of Christian leaders to Charlie Kirk’s death

On the day of the assassination, the Pope tweeted not about Charlie, truth, or martyrdom, but about migrants

Rod Dreher

Culture September 22, 2025

How does the American right move on?

Charlie was unafraid to go anywhere and make the case for what he believed

Ben Domenech

Culture September 22, 2025

Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk have exposed the media’s depravity

The disabused lineaments of common sense are everywhere taking shape again

Roger Kimball

China September 22, 2025

Who’s running China?

Perhaps US intelligence has an idea about who is increasingly the real power behind the throne in Beijing

Francis Pike

International September 22, 2025

A dangerous era of nuclear weapons is upon us

What was unimagineable a decade ago is now seriously discussed in newspapers and research institutes

Peter Frankopan

Europe September 22, 2025

Beware the restless, shifty liars

American politicians have a certain boldness in their financial aspirations

Douglas Murray

Culture September 22, 2025

A meeting with the Tate brothers

‘Like a cockroach, I refuse to die’

Freddy Gray

Health September 22, 2025

We should treat veterans with psychedelics

Psychedelic therapy doesn’t simply suppress symptoms. It may help reshape the system generating them

Nick Carter

Culture September 22, 2025

The blurred lines between politics and common morality

Disagreeing with the left, or the right, doesn’t make you a bad person – celebrating naked evil does

Daniel McCarthy

Culture September 22, 2025

I’m done with default illiberalism

Most Americans have more in common with Charlie Kirk than with the alleged shooter or the elites making excuses

Bridget Phetasy

Culture September 22, 2025

A lack of national identity has killed off the Great American Novel

The future of American fiction is not in New York’s publishing houses, nor in the pages of the New York Times

Michael P. Gibson

Education September 22, 2025

The cultification of math and science

It is clear that embracing ideology over truth directly led to scientists misleading us during the pandemic

Matt Ridley

Technology September 22, 2025

Why we must pull the plug on superintelligence

‘My best guess is that someone born today has a better chance of dying by AI than of graduating high school’

Paul Wood

Technology September 22, 2025

Social media has automated the nation’s psyche

Where the bots lead, humans follow, becoming themselves one-sided, simplistic and fueled by outrage

Max Horder and Danit Sara Finkelstein

Technology September 22, 2025

Why humans will always write better speeches than AI

ChatGPT and its AI relatives are not our competitors – they’re our sherpas, able to scan the web in the time it takes us to sip our tea

Lawrence Bernstein