Public Writings

The American Mind , August 15, 2025   Andrew Beck argues that America needs to revive the ideal of assimilation if our country is to...

Law and Liberty , August 11, 2025   The ongoing clash of the titans, President Trump and Elon Musk, is bringing into high relief the...

First Things , June 23, 2025 The research pursued these days in university humanities departments does not, as a rule, enjoy high esteem...

Law and Liberty , May 15, 2025 The first hundred days of the second Trump presidency have brought unprecedented challenges to the...

The American Mind , May 1, 2025   It’s not often that an opinion writer has the good fortune to elicit serious commentary from...

The Wall Street Journal , April 24, 2025 In recent reports about the Trump administration’s assault on Harvard, the statistic is often...

Compact , April 15, 2025 The Trump administration has been conducting a shock-and-awe campaign on official Washington that has astonished...

The American Mind , April 1, 2025   In his address to Congress this month, President Trump boasted—and justly so—of his administration’s...

Law and Liberty , February 25, 2025   The new administration has at last come to DC, and opportunities for genuine reform, it seems,...

Compact , January 15, 2025   During its annual meeting earlier this month, the American Historical Association, the oldest and most...

First Things , January 10, 2025   Recently I had an experience that I suppose is becoming increasingly common. The large, publicly traded...

Law and Liberty , November 21, 2024   The policies of the incoming administration with regard to the federal role in education, despite a...

Law and Liberty, November 8, 2024 A disturbing feature of the present moment in our public life is that both sides are accusing the...

Law & Liberty, October 17, 2024 As Election Day approaches, I’ve been listening, though as little as possible, to our candidates for...

Law & Liberty, September 11, 2024 When confronted with confusing or appalling new events—and the last few years have surely had plenty of...

First Things , September 10, 2024 I have to admit to a tendency for my eyes to glaze over when people talk about a crisis in the...

Law & Liberty, June 3, 2024 Harvard has had a very bad year. It began last summer with the Supreme Court’s verdict in Students for Fair...

Law and Liberty , May 31, 2024 (Review of The Holdovers )   It’s a well-known fact that historians generally don’t like historical...

Law and Liberty , November 27, 2023 I've long admired Gordon Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution as a model of intellectual...

First Things , November 7, 2023 With the victory of Octavian Caesar, the heir of Julius Caesar, over Antony and Cleopatra at the battle...