By • Aug 11,2009

Hermits and Harlots

“Women and fiction,” Virginia Woolf wrote in 1929, “remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.” Eighty years later, women and fiction no longer seem so problematic. Indeed, they...

By • Aug 11,2009

At the Gates of the Fourth Estate

On a pleasant evening in March, dozens of tanned, well-coiffed conservatives mingled outdoors at a posh Beverly Hills hotel. The open bar served organic beer, top shelf cocktails, and mineral...

By • Aug 11,2009

Learning for a Living

Frankford High School is in a rough neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia. Forty percent of its students drop out before making it to their senior year. Its test scores are low,...

By • Aug 11,2009

Whither Realism?

Is compromise possible between realists and neoconservatives? Are the ideas that animate realism and neoconservatism fundamentally incompatible? A look at the intellectual foundations of our nation's foreign policy.

By • Aug 10,2009

What most annoys about bikers

Ryan Avent writes: I certainly struggle to understand a pedestrian getting indignant about a cyclist’s law-flouting — running red lights and stop signs and such. This is just how things...

By • Aug 07,2009

Political discourse

There’s been some back and forth in the comments of this (surprisingly popular) post about the double standards liberal media outlets bring when they try to police political discourse. I...