Opinion

The Gibraltar–Spain fence is down—but what happens now?

Your child’s report card may be sending the wrong signal. Grades and GPAs increasingly reflect institutional incentives rather than academic achievement.

Commentary The July 17 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that struck down New Jersey’s ban on so-called assault weapons and magazines holding more than 10 rounds is the first time that a federal appeals court has invalidated ...

This piece is adapted from my Foreword to the forthcoming volume, “Truth, Freedom of Speech and Modern-day Censorship” (En Route Books, 2026). Freedom of speech is an integral aspect of authentic freedom, grounded in the distinctively human capacity to adhere to truth ...

The issues surrounding election integrity are grounded by something fundamental: the legitimacy of self-government itself.

Pandemic-era aid allowed many states to expand spending without confronting long-term costs. The bill is coming due.

Commentary The Los Angeles Times recently published a “News Analysis” headlined: “Trump, long a critic of ‘forever wars,’ may be stumbling into one with Iran.” The analysis offers legitimate grounds for criticizing President Donald Trump. He has described the objectives ...

Commentary CARLISLE, Pennsylvania—Jamie Dimon sat on the stage with President Donald Trump, Sen. David McCormick (R-Pa.), Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll, and investors. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase looked out at an auditorium filled ...

Commentary Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. “The cloud” is the hardware that stores trillions of data files, research, love letters, the entirety of the ...

Commentary Seven members of the Little Sisters of the Poor left their order’s motherhouse in La Tour Saint-Joseph, France, on Aug. 28, 1868, and headed for the coast. Three days later, they boarded the Napoleon III steamship and began a ...

Commentary Somewhere in Los Angeles this year, someone will get home who otherwise wouldn’t have. You’ll never learn her name. There will be no headline, no celebration, no council resolution—only an unremarkable Tuesday that ends the way Tuesdays are supposed ...

Commentary Picture the most fun weekend you can ever remember, away from it all, enjoying something wholly foundational and completely new. You and a group of friends decide to go fly fishing in a mountain resort you have never visited. ...

Commentary Canada's economy has grown, but too many Canadians no longer feel more prosperous. Productivity has stalled, business investment has weakened, housing affordability has deteriorated, and confidence in upward mobility has declined. The empty storefronts appearing in shopping malls across ...

Commentary Canada is moving closer and closer to becoming a nation in which both its news and cultural media industries depend upon the government for their survival. The news industry began its dependence on government in 2019 when the Journalism ...