Universal Studios has refurbished and reissued some of its classic horror fare going back to the early 1930s. Some of this stuff turns out to be scarier than ever, for reasons you wouldn’t expect.

Even Jewish self-hatred, in contemporary America no less than in Weimar Germany, bears a characteristically Jewish form.

Continuing breakthroughs in neuroscience have given rise to shelves full of new books wherein interpreters and popularizers propose to tell us what it all means. Several have taken on the neurochemistry of right and wrong.

The November elections confirmed that instability is the watchword in U.S. politics today. The only similar period in our history is the late 19th century—when the political economy was also being buffeted by rapid technological and social change.

Of all the world’s major religious faith communities, only Islam has yet to acknowledge the autonomy of politics from religion. The aspirations of any American “Freedom Agenda” must acknowledge the reality that, where there is an established “church” of that sort, political liberty cannot develop or remain secure.

Whatever the main dangers of Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons, it would also wreak havoc in the international oil mar- ket. That, too, would have major strategic consequences.

If America isn’t careful, rising nationalisms in China and Japan may “pivot” it into a strategic typhoon.

America may once have been “exceptional” next to Europe, but it is so no longer.

Most countries think they’re special, and they have a master narrative to prove it. The key to making American diplomacy more effective lies in figuring out what those narratives are.

The Lone Star state boasts all-star status when it comes to job creation and economic growth. Writing for City Journal, Wendell Cox brings us a great in-depth look at one of the healthiest state economies in the U.S. Texas job creation is well above the national average, with the number of jobs having grown 31.5 […]