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The Most Important Trait for Yale’s Next President: Courage May 23, 2024
On August 31, 2023, Yale’s 23rd president, Peter Salovey, announced he would be stepping down. Since this announcement, much has transpired in the world of American higher education: the resignation of Harvard and UPenn presidents, the creation of ca...
The Breslin Era May 22, 2024
When I was 23, and tasked with covering a mayoral race in New York, the dazzling dungeon of a city in which I was raised, I read and reread a long magazine article written by Jimmy Breslin. The first-person feature, published in a July 1969 issue of ...
Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis May 14, 2024
While the border crisis has become a major liability for President Biden, threatening his reelection chances, it’s become a huge boon to a group of nonprofits getting rich off government contracts.Although the federally funded Unaccompanied Children ...
A TikTok Ban Won’t Fix Social Media May 10, 2024
On April 24th, after years of talks about a TikTok ban, President Joe Biden committed to remaking the platform’s existence in the United States. A foreign-aid package that he signed into law, and that passed in the House and the Senate with strong ma...
On James Shapiro's 'The Playbook' May 08, 2024
For a nation still comparatively young among world powers, the United States approaches its Semiquincentennial (250th birthday) with a muscular, impressive, often shameful history, cycles of progressive reform and reactionary fallout that supposedly ...
NBA Playoffs Will Determine the New Face of the League May 07, 2024
Brace yourselves, millennials: you’re about to hear some stuff that will make your lower back ache even more. Ready? OK: the last time the second round of the NBA playoffs did not include LeBron James, Steph Curry, or Kevin Durant was 2005. That was ...
‘Dark Money’ Influence Expanding, Author Reveals May 02, 2024
The left-wing Arabella Advisors network has raked in more money than either of the two major political parties and affects almost every element of public policy and elections, argues Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center, a Washingto...
Tech’s #MeToo Architect: The Legacy of Ellen Pao May 01, 2024
A recent retrospective in First Things about former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, ousted a decade ago from the company he co-founded over outcry about his opposition to gay marriage, sparked a chain of mea culpas from bystanders to the industry’s years-l...
The Influencers With as Much Access as the Press April 05, 2024
Campaigns and politicians have experimented with influencer marketing over the past four years. But recruiting content creators to reach voters is already happening more than ever in 2024. The Biden campaign has built out a powerful digital operation...
Behind the Curtain: How Trump's Mind Works April 05, 2024
Former President Trump thinks, talks and acts like no other politician in our lifetime. There's a Rosetta stone that demystifies how his mind works, his closest friends tell us: his Mar-a-Lago Spotify playlist....
Gateway to Statesmanship April 03, 2024
In Gateway to Statesmanship, John A. Burtka IV, president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, seeks to revive the tradition of mirror-for-princes literature, a project both timely and timeless. Criticism and distrust of political leaders are no...
Dealing with Jimmy Carter April 02, 2024
Jimmy Carter, age 99, is America’s longest lived ex-president. Much of my life has been a reaction against him. In my youth, his presidency seemed disastrous. His public Christian piety and politics seemed feckless. Theologically and politically, I ...
The DH Is Universal, but Good DHs Are Rare April 02, 2024
Dave Dombrowski’s first full season with the Boston Red Sox was also David Ortiz’s last. Hired in the middle of the 2015 campaign as president of baseball operations, Dombrowski couldn’t know the next spring that Ortiz was set for one of the greatest...
