Turkey Is Stepping Up Where Others Fail to Act

Since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, no country has felt the pain of the ensuing humanitarian crisis more severely than Turkey. We took in 3.6...

Nobel Laureates Aim Too Low on Global Poverty

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the...

China’s Techno-Kleptomania

The news that the U.S. has arrested Peng Xuehua of Hayward, Calif., for allegedly funneling classified American secrets to China’s Ministry of...

Mike Pompeo’s Predicament

Foreign leaders have found much to dislike in President Trump’s policy—the aggressive stance on trade, the chaotic policy process, the disregard...

Bill Barr ‘Gets’ Religion

For Notre Dame fans, this football weekend was a twofer. Not only did the Irish beat a longtime rival, the University of Southern California, on...

Central Europe’s Democratic Lesson

Since the fall of Communism, former Soviet satellites like Hungary and Poland have shown that countries burdened by a statist past can flourish as...

‘Fuzzy-Profound’ Words Cause Mental Rot

What are “qualia”? I stumbled on the word recently in the Times Literary Supplement, where a review of novels by Neal Stephenson and Don...

‘Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’ Review: A Colorful Portrait

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The Bidens Concede

Not even the Biden family seems willing to stand behind their questionable financial arrangements. A business associate in Shanghai doesn’t seem...

‘Return to the Reich’ Review: Refugee Redux

It was with noble purpose that Eric Lichtblau came to write “Return to the Reich.” He wanted to celebrate the anonymous, unsung heroes of World...

‘The Cigarette’ Review: No Smoking, Please

The political philosopher Kenneth Minogue, in his classic study “The Liberal Mind” (1963), memorably compared modern liberalism in its prime to...

How Parents Helped Transform a Los Angeles School

Los Angeles Urban public schools in America have been failing for generations. Yet the turnaround of one public school shows how progress can be...

Bondholders and Venezuelan Democracy

On Oct. 28, $913 million in principal and interest will be due on a bond issued by Petróleos de Venezuela, the state-owned oil monopoly, known as...

Trump Wins Every Democratic Debate

The Republican National Committee should offer to be the official sponsor of a weekly Democratic presidential debate. There would be no better...

What if You Couldn’t Subscribe to Netflix?

What if Congress passed a law mandating that Netflix, YouTube and other video providers would each be barred from making their services available...

What’s a Wealth Tax Worth?

Why do liberals think rich people have money just lying around, like Scrooge McDuck swimming in a giant pool of gold coins? That’s the myth...

Beijing Tries To Bully Congress

Honest Ads Act Is False Advertising

This article is signed by Bradley A. Smith, Lee E. Goodman, and Michael E. Toner, all former chairmen of the Federal Election Commission. A Senate...

Social-Justice Warriors Won’t Listen, but You Should

It would be charming for advocates of social-justice ideology to say, “We need to have a conversation,” were they not almost uniformly such...

Whistleblowers and the Real Deep State

House Democrats are plowing ahead with an impeachment effort inspired by accusations from an anonymous “whistleblower.” The lawmakers may allow...

The Ascent of Frank Lloyd Wright—and Other Books to Read

Ukrainians vs. the Swamp

Call this column optimistic. But there’s reason to believe that indefensible deals like paying fortunes to unqualified sons of foreign...

The Museum of Modern Art’s Architectural Tipping Point

New York What do the airport, the municipal hospital, and the Museum of Modern Art have in common? Each is condemned to perpetual growth, to add...

Do California’s Blackouts Make Sense?

When Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell isn’t worried about trade wars, he can now worry about substantial chunks of gross domestic product...

Millennials Are Coming to America’s Small Towns

Smithsburg, Md. On a Saturday afternoon in late September, I observed my 6-year-old son repeatedly doing two things we’ve always told him not to...

‘Possessed by Memory’ and ‘The American Canon’ Review: A Cat That Walks by Himself

Along with less striking literary tchotchkes, I own a framed picture of Harold Bloom. It was a gift from the late Alice K. Turner, the longtime...

Ukraine Smoke and Mirrors

Democrats and the media for three years used a fog of facts and speculation to lull America into forgetting there was never a shred of evidence of...

Pot Legalization Makes Vaping Deadly

Doctors have linked a tragic wave of lung injuries and deaths to the vaping of tainted marijuana concentrates. The episode reveals the dangers...

Warren Rewrites Her Story Again

‘I am sorry for harm I have caused,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren told the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in August, referring to her...

A New Saint for the Age of Loneliness

On Sunday Pope Francis will officially recognize as a saint the British clergyman and Oxford academic John Henry Newman (1801-90). Nearly 130 years...

Ukraine Will Get the Truth on Corruption

The U.S. and Ukraine are wrapped together in a crisis, and the future of our partnership depends on us finally getting to the facts. As a member of...

Trump’s Reckless Rush to Withdraw

One thing I think I’ve correctly observed about the U.S. military in the 21st century is that its leaders tend to be the last to want to go to war...

A Hostile Climate for Children

As if the world didn’t already have enough problems, now we’re all supposed to hate babies. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez last week couldn’t...

Garrison Keillor Accepts His Sacrifice

New Marlborough, Mass. On a bright blue-gold October day, the leaves just turning, Garrison Keillor appeared at the Meeting House in this Berkshire...

‘Scan Artist’ Review: Go Ahead, Take Your Time

In its postwar heyday, Evelyn Wood’s Reading Dynamics course was more than just the object of fun it would later become. (Woody Allen on what he...

Garrison Keillor Confesses His Sins

New Marlborough, Mass. On a bright blue-gold October day, the leaves just turning, Garrison Keillor appeared at the Meeting House in this Berkshire...

With Its Expansion, MoMA Is Somehow Smaller

New York The good news about the expanded Museum of Modern Art is that the bad news isn’t as bad as we had been led to believe it would be. Yet...

‘Not a Great Way to Start the Day’

On Thursday morning the White House announced that President Donald Trump will award the Medal of Honor to Army Master Sgt. Matthew O. Williams for...

A Sports Hero for Hong Kong

Treating video game players like professional athletes can seem like a joke, but now the world appears to have a genuine hero from the world of e-...

What I Saw at Drag Queen Story Hour

Washington You can be forgiven if you haven’t heard of “Drag Queen Story Hour,” in which men dressed as women read to children at public...

Hamilton Wouldn’t Impeach Trump

What is an impeachable offense? Rep. Maxine Waters, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, says the definition is purely political:...

Insult, Injury and Religious Liberty

Some conservatives are hailing a victory for religious liberty in Michigan, but there’s less to it than meets the eye. On Sept. 26 a federal...

The Right Way to Impeach a President

The House Democratic impeachment inquiry is unserious. Yes, it is a solemn moment whenever the House considers a resolution calling for a...

World War Trump

This presidency as normally understood is over. The only way to comprehend what is going on every day now is in terms of the 2020 election...

‘Unbreakable’ Review: Clearing Obstacles

The whole point of a challenge is that it be achievable. Unsolvable puzzles and unwinnable games are of no interest to anyone. No one would watch a...

‘Two Hands’ by Big Thief Review: Songs of the Body, to Expand the Mind

There’s a particular excitement that comes from witnessing a prolific young artist hitting a creative peak, being present when great songs are...

A Disney Story for Young Socialists

The lab-coated scientist rewards a capuchin monkey with a piece of cucumber when she hands the scientist a rock. A second monkey gets a juicy grape...