The High Cost of Low-Level Crime in San Francisco – City Journal

The Academic Destruction of the University of Tulsa

The Nuclear Option

Theophrastus’ Characters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior

Worst Union in America (2012)

Seattle’s Homeless Challenge

When Boz Came to Town: Remembering Charles Dickens’s First Visit to New York

Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged HSR (High-Speed Rail) Project

Chaim Soutine’s consoling portraiture

A Brief History of Shopping: From Sears to Amazon in four uneasy upheavals

The Revolution Against the Revolution: Looking Back on Shays’ Rebellion

Lagos: Hope and Warning

California, Poverty Capital

Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star generating industrial jobs

A Quiet Evening’s Reading: ‘Notable British Trials’

Return of the Notman: Robinson Jeffers’s philosophy of “inhumanism”

No, Teachers Are Not Underpaid

The Age of Outrage: What the current political climate is doing

Portland’s Disgraceful Anarchy

First Amendment in Peril?

Philip Roth’s Newark

Campuses must combat growing zeal for censorship

Eddie Antar was an innovator, disrupter, and crook

The Madman as Painter: Richard Dadd

Singapore’s Midlife Crisis

The New Old Masters

The Rise and Fall of Atlantic City

The Rush from Judgment (1997)

The Alphabet of Satire – Rube Goldberg

The Admiral of the Atom

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