American politics is no longer a contest over how we govern, but over who decides.

Higher education now sells back what American society once provided for free.

What Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on AI means for republican government.

Reverence for great ideas and great men.

Outcry over data centers points to a larger issue.

A field guide to the South Africanization playbook.

American history, memory, and identity through European eyes.

The possible fallout from the Court’s birthright citizenship opinion.

Civic formation in an era of unlimited birthright citizenship.

What’s behind the rise of socialism?

How the state traded in production for preservation.

From “created equal” to “born equal.”