2+ hour, 49+ min ago  (380+ words) (Source: University of Michigan Survey of Consumers) This raises the question of whether these projections for impending doom are accurate and if the pessimism that is cloaking the young is warranted. Some think not, while others have dismissed futurist optimism…...

2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (302+ words) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are huge, with $7. 8 trillion in assets and $7. 6 trillion in liabilities. They are an essential part of the finances of the US government. But we do not find them as part of the government's consolidated financial…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (851+ words) Nevertheless, outside the bounds of this false binary, there remain important questions about how the fact of being female does and/or should inflect one's professional ambition, workplace aesthetic, and work/life balance." In the 2000s, before this discourse about girl-bosses,…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (413+ words) It was more than a religious ceremony'it was a civic one. A Jewish house of worship was being welcomed not as a curiosity, nor even merely as a tolerated minority institution, but as part of the moral and public life…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (624+ words) There are many reasons offered for why Americans should risk a nuclear standoff with China over this little island that they do not even officially recognize as sovereign. Many are important but are ultimately insufficient for the demands placed on…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (260+ words) Historians regularly assail "law office history." But they can be guilty of writing "history department jurisprudence." Originalism protects the amendment process by encouraging social movements to make it their method of social change. Peterson's book especially weakens when it shifts…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (216+ words) As AI reshapes the world, it may feel less and less "empowering." This distinction is worth keeping in mind when AI cooks insist that we all must change our diets to consume whatever the machine serves up." AI will give…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago  (200+ words) How Much Should We Worry? The point is not that the US is Venezuela. It is that a country can fall from the top of the world to ruin within living memory. America's debt has surpassed 100% of GDP and the…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (663+ words) The freedom to grow rich is a right for all, and the State does not have the duty to enrich anyone, but rather to leave everyone the freedom to enrich themselves through their labor and industry. Openness as a Catalyst…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (226+ words) Editor's Note: This is the second essay in a symposium on the book The Case for American Power. You can read the first essay here. Vesting the executive power in a president was what the Founders borrowed from autocracy; and…...