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Trump Has a Point About the Smithsonian Its American history museum has become an instrument of left-wing culture warriors.

By William A. Galston July 28, 2026

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By William A. Galston July 28, 2026 – the White House Domestic Policy Council this July 4 issued a 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and its director, Anthea Hartig, of adopting an ideological framework that treats the American story as a “political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.”……A lesson from the administration’s assault on higher education is that…it exposed the weakness of many elite universities when confronted with antisemitism and disruptive protests and prompted some of them to change their policies. …Ms. Hartig, …has infused the National Museum of American History with a new sense of mission. … “history. . . is for me a prime tool of social justice.” … The museum in 2021 adopted an “Interpretive Plan” to guide its work. “Whatever the topic,” … “we ask questions that speak to the core issues of our time.” … “race and identity,” “gender and sexuality,” “environmental change,” “immigration and migrations” and “economic inequality.” Read More

Thomas Sowell: My Experience With Artificial Intelligence

By By Thomas Sowell Jan. 15, 2026

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By Thomas Sowell Jan. 15, 2026 -Tragically, the AI impersonation fraud is part of a much larger and much longer lasting undermining of the very concept of truth…. If there are no serious consequences for either individuals or institutions that create frauds—whether by AI or by silencing other viewpoints—we will have no basis for settling our inevitable differences other than violence.,,,And once violence takes over, it may not matter what issues set it off, as violence and counter-violence take on a life of their own. At that point, the issue is no longer which vision will win, but whether we shall survive as a free society, or survive at all. Read More

On Marriage, an Economist Bravely States the Obvious B

By Jason L. Riley - Sept. 26, 2023

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By Jason L. Riley – George Gilder wrote about the importance of the nuclear family in “Sexual Suicide” (1973) and “Men and Marriage” (1986). Charles Murray, who had touched on it in his landmark study, “Losing Ground” (1984), made similar arguments in “Coming Apart” (2012). In 1994 David Blankenhorn published “Fatherless America,” and 1996 brought David Popenoe’s “Life Without Father: Compelling New Evidence That Fatherhood and Marriage Are Indispensable for the Good of Children and Society.”

Other books that cover the same ground as Ms. Kearney include Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher’s “The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier and Better Off Financially”; James Q. Wilson’s “The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families”; Kay Hymowitz’s “Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age”; and Ralph Richard Banks’s “Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone.” Read More

The New Moral Order Is Already Crumbling B

By Gerard Baker - Sept. 25, 2023

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By Gerard Baker – The new moral order our secularist elites have been busy constructing since the end of the Cold War is collapsing around them. Over the past 30 years, the values of Judeo-Christian belief that had inspired and sustained Western civilization and culture for centuries have been steadily replaced in a moral, cultural and political revolution of the postmodern ascendancy. But the contradictions and implausibilities inherent in this successor creed have been increasingly exposed, …. This new edifice has been built around three principal pillars: First, the ethical primacy of global obligation over national self-interest, in economic and geopolitical terms, but most consequentially in a rejection of the morality of national borders and an embrace of something like open-door immigration. Second, a quasi-biblical belief in climate catastrophism, in which man’s essential energy-consuming sinfulness can be expiated only by massive sacrifice of economic progress. Third, a wholesale cultural self-cancellation in which the virtues, values and historic achievements of traditional civilization are rejected… Read More

New York vs. Florida, by the Numbers B

By The Editorial Board - Feb. 9, 2023

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By The Editorial Board – WSJ – Some numbers tell a story about comparative governance. Comparative governance is a useful course of study, not least because bad governance is so costly to people and prosperity. We often write about the migration from the Northeast to Florida and other states, but sometimes the contrast is best illuminated with some data. Read More