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Matthew Continetti writes about President Biden’s failure to achieve one of his most important campaign promises. Higher prices, a broken border, raging wars, violent campuses—is this what Joe Biden promised…
Yuval Levin explores at National Review Online a recent comparison between the woke left and a religious group from America’s past. Critics of the rigid and imperious ideological extremism of…
Joseph Epstein ponders for Commentary magazine the reaction to his well-publicized op-ed on the First Lady’s education credentials. I had written the piece to get what I thought a minor…
James Meigs writes in Commentary magazine about one factor that has hurt experts’ response to COVID-19. We know now that the coronavirus travels through the air, just as some researchers…
John Podhoretz of Commentary magazine questions the close link between COVID-19 government lockdowns and an important political milestone. Did the official in charge of public health in Los Angeles County…
… you might recognize key elements of the political disorder in America today. Abe Greenwald makes that argument in the latest Commentary magazine cover story. [W]hat we’re witnessing is not…
Warren Henry of the Federalist ponders the recent hubbub over President Trump’s approach to Iran. Were the establishment media to be believed, President Trump is spoiling for a shooting war…
I remember enjoying Robert Alter‘s translation of the biblical books of Ancient Israel several years ago. Now Alter has finished his decades-long project targeting the entire Hebrew Bible. Meir Soloveichik…
James Meigs shares with Commentary magazine readers an interesting take on today’s political arguments. There is another style of argument, one that doesn’t trouble itself with pesky facts at all.…
Abigail Shrier’s review of Heather MacDonald‘s latest book for Commentary magazine highlights disturbing information about the impact of affirmative action in higher education. She begins with a serious discussion of…
Jonah Goldberg reminds us in the latest Commentary magazine cover story that opposition to free-market policies emerges from more than just one end of the political spectrum. The major difference…
James Kirchick explains in the latest Commentary magazine why the push to expand the definition of “rights” diminishes the rights we actually enjoy. Since the concept of “human rights” was…