Category: USA
Why Americans Love to Hate Harvard
Derek Bok in Harvard Magazine: IN DECEMBER, the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT were summoned…
Americans Don’t Want a Dictatorship, But They’re Creating One Anyway
by J. D. Tuccille at the Rattler, a Reason newsletter: Whether a glass is half…
Dunkin Donuts, Allah, and Quantum Physics
By Broken Mystic: So, I’ve been speaking to some of my friends about quantum physics…
NATO Without America
Can Europeans shore up their collective defense and security by creating an independent, strongly coordinated…
Many Democrats Are Worried Trump Will Beat Biden. This One Isn’t.
Simon Rosenberg has spent the past two years telling Democrats they need to calm down….
The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn’t Leave
On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New…
‘Think Tanks are a Groupthink Community Called The Blob’
The Ideas Letter: In an infamous profile several years back, Obama national security advisor Ben…
Searching for My Pakistani Identity
From Broken Mystic: It started off funny. I was at the mall buying a birthday…
The Anxious Generation
A social psychologist and a Professor discuss the end of the play-based childhood and the…
Free Speech Is Under Attack in the U.S., But It’s on the Ropes Elsewhere
“Even open democracies have implemented restrictive measures” If you think free speech is under attack…
State of the Art
From “Sources of Life,” which was published in the Spring 2021 issue of The Point….
Trump Sells Bibles; Evangelicals Sell Their Souls
David Horsey in Seattle Times: P.T. Barnum, the great 19th century showman, circus owner and hoax…