We have a window, as in the 1960s and 1970s, in which the money is present and the technology is ripe to let idealism and ...

But Kennedy sold the space program instrumentally as well, in a more familiar politician’s register. Sometimes he used the ...

The past few years haven't been kind to foreign policy idealism--the belief that when authoritarian states mistreat their own people, it is a matter of concern for all of us. We idealists can largely ...

Public opinion is a critical stakeholder in any democratic society. It determines who will be elected and what policies are likely to be successful. Biden has a numbers problem. This is bad news for ...

The votes have been cast, and a vaccine is on the horizon. We now find ourselves in the twilight days of Donald Trump’s presidency and perhaps “the end of the beginning” or maybe even “the beginning ...

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Americans are sickened of an “idealism that is oblique, confusing, dishonest, and ferocious,” as H.L. Mencken wrote a hundred years ago. Though Mencken was condemning President Woodrow Wilson, the ...

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Adam Smith When we we talk about ...

The apartment where I work overlooks a small, alternative high school in Boulder, Colorado. I look out onto the football field and see a young woman flip her hair to the side. Even her roots shine.

At 62, Justin Cartwright is a senior member of a masterful generation of English novelists that includes Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro. He has all that group’s relevant ...