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My favorite articles of 2013
Here are my top ten articles that I came across in 2013 (alphabetical by author’s last name): “Silicon chasm: the class divide on America’s cutting edge,” Weekly Standard, by Charlotte Allen “A letter to my grandfather,” Chronicle of Higher Education, by Charles Barzun “Does faith = hate?” The American Conservative, by Rod Dreher “The decay of American political institutions,” […]
This week’s articles of note
“This is the man that Bill Gates thinks you absolutely should be reading,” Wired, by Clive Thompson [Interview with Vaclav Smil] “Which side of the barricade are you on?” Politico, by Doug Sosnik “America’s coastal royalty,” Real Clear Politics, by Victor Davis Hanson “The French connection: how the Revolution, and two thinkers, bequeathed us ‘right’ […]
This week’s articles of note
“The nuclear option undermines our institutions,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead “Doris Lessing and the left,” Real Clear Politics, by Cathy Young “Why the future looks sluggish,” Financial Times, by Martin Wolf “Common Core and the American republic,” The American Conservative, by Patrick Dineen “A curious form of ‘populism’: Bill de Blasio and […]
This week’s articles of note
“Hillary’s nightmare? A Democratic Party that realizes its soul lies with Elizabeth Warren,” The New Republic, by Noam Scheiber “The spirit of secession sweeps the Red States,” American Conservative, by Patrick J. Buchanan “Political divide hurts college free speech,” USA Today, by Patrick Maines “What happened in Laramie: everything you know about Matthew Shepard is […]
This week’s articles of note
“Fixing California: the green gentry’s class warfare,” New Geography, by Joel Kotkin “The Blue Model needs Wall Street to survive,” The American Interest, by Walter Russell Mead “The new American capitalism: the rise of the distorporation,” The Economist “Big Mother is watching you,” The New Republic, by Judith Shulevitz “Interest fading in the humanities, colleges […]
This week’s articles of note
“A blue state’s road to red,” Washington Post, by Karen Tumulty “Democrats are stupid, too,” Bloomberg View, by Clive Crook “Bill de Blasio and the new urban populism,” The New York Times, by Thomas B. Edsall “The case for hate speech,” The Atlantic, by Jonathan Rauch “Of course the world is better now than it […]
This week’s articles of note
“Miley Cyrus syndrome: where have all the grown-ups gone?” Los Angeles Times, by Meghan Daum “Men dither while women lead in the world,” CNN, by Hanna Rosin “The last days of the GOP,” New Republic, by John Judis “Gerrymandering isn’t to blame for D.C. impasse,” Real Clear Politics, by Sean Trende “A fracking Rorschach test,” […]
This week’s articles of note
“The two faces of American education,” The New York Review of Books, by Andrew Delbanco [Review of books by Diane Ravitch and Michelle Rhee] “The closing of Diane Ravitch’s mind,” City Journal, by Sol Stern “California’s new feudalism benefits a few at the expense of the multitude,” The Daily Beast, by Joel Kotkin “It’s hard […]
This week’s articles of note
“Finding racism where it’s not as blatant, and inventing it where it’s not present,” Washington Examiner, by Timothy P. Carney “If you send your kid to a private school, you are a bad person,” Slate, by Allison Benedikt “People don’t fear climate change enough,” Bloomberg, by Cass Sunstein “Free abortions on demand with no apologies,” […]
This week’s articles of note
“The great Oberlin College racism hoax of 2013,” Legal Insurrection, by William A. Jacobson “Doing things together doesn’t mean a big government program,” Washington Examiner, by Timothy Carney “How Obama has abused the Patriot Act,” Los Angeles Times, by Jim Sensenbrenner “The real reason college costs so much,” Wall Street Journal,,” by Alyssia Finley “Science is […]