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The Universal Nation: America’s Most Exportable Product Remains Itself. Let’s Not Mess It Up
1+ hour, 6+ min ago (251+ words) At home, Wattenberg saw the country becoming "one from many" at unprecedented scale. Newcomers from across the globe refreshed human capital, widened markets, and strengthened American universities, businesses, and civic life. Three decades on, Wattenberg's framework seems as valid as…...
Trump Houses Are a Good Idea—If
1+ hour, 49+ min ago (197+ words) Facing public concern about high home purchase prices, the Trump Administration is said to be considering the idea of "Trump Houses," starter homes to be built privately but with some sort of federal backing to encourage the private investors. Potential…...
Whole Hog Politics: Republicans’ alarming nosedive with white working class voters
6+ hour, 21+ min ago (219+ words) Whole Hog Politics: Republicans" alarming nosedive with white working class voters'American Enterprise Institute - AEI Whole Hog Politics: Republicans" alarming nosedive with white working class voters Yes, America is divided along lines of gender, ethnicity, faith (or absence thereof ) and so…...
Continuity Without Illusions
12+ hour, 6+ min ago (406+ words) Ruth Wisse's'new essay'is right to warn against despair. Jewish continuity has never depended on favorable conditions, and it has never been guaranteed by social acceptance or political goodwill. What has changed is not the nature of the task, but the…...
When Faculty Become the Gateway to Campus Radicalism
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (521+ words) This week, the Columbia Spectator reported that the NYPD arrested 12 people'including students and faculty'at an anti-ICE demonstration outside Columbia University's campus gates. Protesters blocked traffic near Broadway and 116th Street, demanding Columbia re-declare itself a sanctuary campus. That is how radical…...
Code Red: Is the Future of American AI Being Built in Beijing?
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (294+ words) America's most elite technology startups have developed an even deeper dependency: One in four companies in Y Combinator's Winter 2025 batch used AI tools to write 95 percent of their codebase. At least some of these are fine-tuned versions of models provided…...
Politics Should Be More Like the Super Bowl
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (172+ words) American civics should be more like the Super Bowl. On Sunday, more than 127 million Americans will tune in for the biggest shared cultural moment of the year'the biggest shared moment of every year. That isn't because there are 127 million Seahawks…...
The “Canberra Effect”: Australian Social Media Regulatory Contagion
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (261+ words) Since enacting and implementing its own world-leading rules governing access to social media by children under 16, Australia has positioned itself to bring about a "Canberra Effect" in social media regulation. Just one month after the Australian legislation took effect, Prime…...
Government Won’t Help the AI Job Transition
4+ day, 24+ min ago (323+ words) Government Won't Help the AI Job Transition'American Enterprise Institute - AEI Government Won't Help the AI Job Transition A consensus has formed that while artificial intelligence may create new and better jobs, its threat to current job holders requires massive new…...
When Society’s Good Intentions for Jews Replace Equal Citizenship
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (996+ words) A secular Manhattan school responded to October 7 by holding a Shabbat gathering. The head of school spoke with moral seriousness. Jewish families felt seen. Non-Jewish families showed up in solidarity. By any reasonable measure, this is a success story. And…...