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Tough Love: Should My Son Hit a Bully?
A millennial mom has seen a 5-year-old ‘punch, kick, and push my son’ at preschool. ‘What’s hardest for me is what this experience is doing to my…
Abigail Shrier
Walter Isaacson on the Sentence That Created America
And the arguments that shaped the Declaration of Independence.
Shilo Brooks
51M
Conservatives Took Over a Progressive College. What Happened Next?
New College has lots of new professors and students, but campus life feels less like an ideological battlefield than, well, a normal college.
Jonas Du
A Medical Student Took His Own Life. His Parents Blame the School.
After an accusation of wrongdoing and a late-night email from a school dean, Vaibhav Duggal died by suicide. Is the school responsible?
Frannie Block
Scrapping the SAT. Plus. . .
When GLP-1s go wrong. Pastor Ezra Jin’s case takes a dark turn. Why John Steinbeck lives with us still. And more.
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The SAT Is Back. But Is There a Better Alternative?
Jeremy Tate thinks the SAT is way too easy—so he invented the Classic Learning Test. He says he’s ‘in a battle to save Western civilization.’
Maya Sulkin
The WWII Novel That Explains America
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jon Meacham breaks down ‘The Winds of War.’
Shilo Brooks
54M
What the Spelling Bee Taught Me About Excellence
I competed in the Scripps National Spelling Bee 10 years ago. It may be the purest meritocracy America has left.
Mitchell Robson
Give Your Kids a Screen-Free Summer. Plus . . .
Ben Shapiro on the new right’s ‘conspiracy problem.’ A new Broadway play about the oldest hatred. All the good don’t die young. And more!
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Agatha Christie and the Kidnapping That Inspired Her Greatest Mystery
Joe Nocera on the Lindbergh kidnapping, and why the world’s best-selling novelist grabs readers like nobody else.
Shilo Brooks
53M
Confessions of a Former DEI Officer
Michael Yassa led a DEI office at UC Irvine in 2020. Now he says it was all performative.
Maya Sulkin
1HR 10M
Victory for Harvard’s Anti–Grade Inflation Crusader
‘It’s about time,’ says retired professor Harvey Mansfield, who fought the epidemic of too many A’s for over 50 years. Harvard finally agrees.
Novi Zhukovsky
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