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The Sunday School Mass Shooting That Didn't Happen in Michigan

Why China Is Projected to Have Just 525 Million People by 2100

Supreme Court Strips Environmentalists of Their 'Perfect Tool'

How Academia Lost Its Mind

The Best Nonfiction Novel Ever Written: 'The Executioner’s Song'

Brown University, Alex Shieh, and the Decay of Higher Education

The Reality of Huxley's 'Brave New World'

The Moment a Veteran Teacher Gave Up on Government Schools

How 'Nostalgianomics' Went Mainstream

A CIA Chief's Chilling Dying Words and the JFK Assassination

Paul Kingsnorth, C.S. Lewis, and the Problem with ‘Saving Christian Civilization’

The Spy Who Fooled Hitler and Won D-Day for the Allies

A Tariff Carveout for Scotch? Yes, Please

Karl Marx’s Father Warned the World—And He Was Right

The Myth That Hurricanes Are Getting Worse Because of Climate Change

The Other Villain in Primal Fear

The Myth That the Polar Bear Population Is Declining

U.S. Sees Record Drop in Drug Overdose Deaths

The Origins of China's One-Child Policy

Pius IX: The Pope Who Saw the Future

Why a Former Pfizer Exec Is Trying to Flee to Canada

No, Public TV Isn’t a Constitutional Right

How a Third-Grade Teacher Fixed My Son’s Reading Struggles

What Karl Marx Could Have Learned From Jordan Peterson

A Beautiful Passage on Pain, Loneliness, and Sorrow

Europe’s blackouts are a warning for Americans

Rediscovering Fletch: The Book Behind the Movie

Apology Accepted, Noah

The Worst Automobile in History

6 Books That Will Rewire Your Brain (in a Good Way)

The Showerhead Wars, Explained

3 Real-Life Inspirations for George Orwell’s 1984

Proof That Socialism Caused Venezuela's Economic Collapse

20 Quotes on Nonconformity to Strengthen Your Resolve and Defy the Masses

Why Plastic Bag Bans Fail to Deliver

Why California Continues to Lead the Nation in Poverty and Homelessness

The Other Cost of Inflation

Did a Bad Case of Hemorrhoids Cause Napoleon to Lose at Waterloo?

Churchill Saw the Pitfalls of Protectionism—Trump Does Not

Sin City, Solzhenitsyn, and the Power of Deceit

The Stock Market Crash of 2025 and the 'Reciprocal' Tariff Myth

The Mirage of Academic Freedom

Winston Churchill's Manchester Free Trade Speech (1904)

Congressional Witness: 3 CIA Officers 'Responsible for, or Complicit in' JFK Death

Climate-Related Deaths Are Down 97.5% Since 1920

George Orwell's 1944 Review of 'The Road to Serfdom'

Net Neutrality Was Never about ‘Saving the Internet’

'Signal Gate' Is Far Worse Than People Realize

Why Harvey Keitel Got Fired by Stanley Kubrick While Filming 'Eyes Wide Shut'

A Forgotten Abolitionist

Frank Herbert's Other Fantastic Quote

CIA Historian Admits There Was a 'Cover-Up' Following JFK Assassination

The Supreme Court Case That Will Dismantle DEI’s Legal Foundation

One Fallacy to Rule Them All: How COVID Exposed the Dangers of Blind Faith in 'The Science'

Why Did a Future CIA Director Hide Evidence of the Holocaust During WWII?

'The Twilight Zone' Saw the Dangerous Ethics of Killing Baby Hitler

BP Jumps Off the Sinking ESG Ship

Mr. Beast's Critics Can't Handle That Profit Solves Problems

Do Religious Cultures Favor Capitalism?

The Opportunity Cost of Your Dream Job

What Stephen King Taught Me About Writing

DOGE Is Uncovering Corruption That Would Make Tammany Hall Bosses Blush

Was Zelenskyy's Oval Office Squabble Theater?

Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and the Danger of Power

How Vladmir Lenin Inspired the CIA's Use of Political Warfare

Poverty 'Almost Halved' in Argentina Under Milei's Reforms

From OnlyFans to Born Again Christian: More on Nala Ray's Faith Journey

Ancient Rome, the CIA, and the Barbarity of Torture

Why I'm Going on a Drinking Hiatus

How Did Those 108 Economists Get Javier Milei's Reforms So Wrong?

Christopher Lasch and Our Culture of Narcissism

The Value of Chores

The DEI Legal Reckoning Has Finally Arrived

A Brief History of Valentine's Day Cards

A Philosopher's One-Sentence Advice for Living a Healthy Spiritual Life

C.S. Lewis on Whether Animals Can Go to Heaven

The Troubling Roots of ‘Political Correctness’

Why Kendrick Lamar's Halftime Show Pays $0—And He Still Wins Big

6 Things You Might Not Know About Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Companies Are Following Elon Musk Out of Delaware. Here's Why That's a Very Big Deal

George Orwell on the Difference Between Patriotism and Nationalism

The Hippocratic Oath, Abortion, and the Folly of Violence

Can America Survive Without Individualism?

Zhuang Zhou: Ancient China's Adam Smith

Other Countries Have Privatized Post Offices. Why Can't the US?

Why Hasn't the New York Times Reported Suchir Balaji's Death?

How 'Snowflake' Became a Pejorative

The 51 Signees of the 'Russian Disinformation' Letter Absolutely Deserved to Lose Security Clearance

Why ‘Travelin’ Soldier’ Is the Best Anti-War Song Ever (and Always Brings a Tear to My Eye)

Reporters Dish on How Politico Protected Biden: ‘Don’t Write About the Laptop, Don’t Talk About the Laptop’

How the Ancient Greeks ‘Protected’ Democracy

10 Vincent Van Gogh Quotes That Reveal His Haunted, Beautiful Soul

How the Media Destroyed Itself

9 Truths MLK Taught Us About Nonviolence and Love

Conan the Barbarian's Riddle of Steel, Explained

Fauci's Damning Congressional Testimony—One Year Later

The Village People, Europe's Economic Decline, and California's Insurance Nightmare

Ghostbusters Might Be the Most Libertarian '80s Movie

Proof That Progressives Loved Stalinism and Maoism, Despite Their Horrors

The ‘Mount Rushmore’ of TV Dramas

China's Demographic Collapse, Explained

13 Thoughts From Jacques Barzun on Cultural Decline

The Real Reason State Farm Won’t Sell Home Insurance in California Anymore

The Racist Roots of Minimum Wage Laws

Remembering the Good That Jimmy Carter Did

Ayn Rand’s Views on Abortion and Questions Americans Must Answer

Starbucks Baristas Secretly Recorded Co-Workers. A Court Says It Was Illegal to Fire Them

How America’s Recycling Program Scarred the Environment

My Visit to Starbucks and the Decline of Good Manners and Service

Game of Thrones and Our Out-of-Control Government Spending

How Many Days Does It Take to Form Habits?