Rafael Mangual is the Nick Ohnell Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a member of the Council on Criminal Justice. His first book, Criminal (In)Justice, was ...

Every nation has an operating ideology. In a country that hews faithfully to the principles embedded in its written constitution, that ideology is overt. In a tyrannical government, however, it is ...

“Young people will change the world,” we often hear. And the implied change is always the same: a leftward shift. Youth are naturally rebellious, we’re told, and they’re bound to cast aside hidebound ...

This month, millions of students returned to California’s troubled public schools, where, under State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, academic results have kept declining and ...

I do research on occupational licensing, and when I ask people to guess the state with the heaviest licensing burden, they often name New York first. They’re usually shocked when I tell them that New ...

When the Supreme Court banned the use of race in college admissions in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, elite universities variously condemned and pledged to subvert the verdict. Now that ...

In 1974, the writer Jean Genet, an uncontested celebrity of the French Left, whose works extol the beauty of hoodlums, assassins, Black Panthers, the S.S., and Yasser Arafat’s Fedayeen, explained his ...

Sabin Howard’s engrossing 38-figure, high-relief sculpture—the centerpiece of Washington’s new National World War I Memorial, situated on Pennsylvania Avenue just east of the White House and Treasury ...

Last fall, a week after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, the New York Review of Books ran a short open letter from “writers and artists who have been to Palestine to participate in the ...

On Wednesday, Eric Adams became the first mayor of New York City to be indicted while in office. Adams, defiant, vows to fight the charges while staying in office. With more federal investigations ...

“Almost 9,000 children in California foster care could soon be taken from homes over insurance crisis,” reads one among a dozen similar headlines that have appeared in West Coast media over recent ...

After a recent freak windstorm and hurricane left much of Houston powerless and facing $211 million in damage, residents may soon find themselves saddled with several more burdens: a 9.5 percent ...