By Roland Fryer – Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means. Read More
The Economics of Slavery
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Reflections on Lincoln 160 Years After His Murder
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By Paul Wolfowitz – April 14, 2025 – America’s greatest president had moral vision, strategic genius, and astounding eloquence. Read More
Ed Feulner Built Institutions in Support of American Values
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By Mike Pence – As the founder of the Heritage Foundation, Ed was a leading voice of conservatism for more than 50 years. Under his leadership, Heritage became both a center for scholarship and a powerhouse of strategic influence.
What concerned him, as always, was the long-term health of the American Republic, and the strength of the institutions that would defend it for generations to come.
Ed didn’t just build up institutions; he cultivated a movement that brought ivory tower ideas into the public square and never lost sight of the moral and spiritual foundations of liberty. Read More
The Rise of the Climate Right
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By Kimberly Strassel – We still don’t know the extent to which human activity plays a role in warming, given natural variability, data limitations, uncertain models and fluctuations in solar activity. Models predicting what is to come remain all over the map. U.S. historical data doesn’t support claims of increased frequency or intensity of extreme weather. Climate change is likely to have little effect on economic growth. U.S. climate policies, even drastic ones, will have negligible effect on global temperatures. Read More
Netanyahu Flips the Script
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By Walter Russell Meade – A coalition in revolt, prosecutors on his heels, powerful rivals looking to unseat him, chilly relations with Mr. Trump, growing opposition from Europe, skeptical military and intelligence chiefs and a hostile press—few leaders anywhere have faced this kind of pressure.
By Walter Russell Meade – By week’s end, Bibi had flipped the script. A series of military blows exposed the weakness of Iran’s sulphurously belligerent regime and demonstrated Israel’s military and intelligence supremacy in the Middle East. The government crisis subsided. Mr. Trump praised Israel’s audacious attack. As in the months after Oct. 7, 2023, a determined prime minister harnessed the Israeli military machine to orchestrate a dazzling series of victories that stunned the world even if they did not win it over. Read More