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This week’s articles of note

"President Obama's big drags," Politico, by Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen

"The progressive crisis," The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead

"Politics' fatal therapeutic turn," Dissent, by Zelda Bronstein

"Health now: a provocation," The Chronicle of Higher Education, by Mark Edmundson

"Why the gender gap won't go away. Ever," City Journal, by Kay S. Hymowitz

"Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Aquinas: an imagined encounter," First Things, by J. Augustine Di Noia

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