Trump’s higher ed crusade now has its blueprint

July 18, 2025

Trump’s higher ed crusade now has its blueprint

There are tides of change in American higher education, and Christopher Rufo and the Manhattan Institute are leading the charge. Earlier this week, Rufo released the Manhattan Statement: a bold call to restore truth, civic virtue, and institutional neutrality to the nation’s elite universities. Backed by new polling data, the document arrives at a critical […]

Lena Dunham turns on the feminist ‘good guy’

Lena Dunham’s much-anticipated return to TV arrived in the form of Too Much, a Netflix comedy-drama that reimagines her real-life breakup with musician-producer Jack Antonoff as a self-lacerating romantic odyssey. Largely staying behind the camera due to health problems, Dunham channeled her emotional chaos into a fictional avatar: Jessica (played with twitchy, unfiltered energy by […]

James Gunn gives Superman an existential crisis

There’s a moment in the second act of James Gunn’s Superman where Lois Lane consoles the titular hero as he grapples with the revelation that his Kryptonian parents didn’t send him to Earth as a savior, but as a conqueror. Meanwhile, outside his apartment window, the Green Lantern and his Justice Gang are being thrashed […]

Making adoption a real contender

Society is backward. That impression is more intuitive than concrete, except when examining the modern posture toward parenthood. Then, statistics speak for themselves. For example, “By a ratio of nearly 50:1, women choose to terminate a pregnancy rather than place that child for adoption.” Researchers Ryan Hanlon and Elizabeth Kirk explain as much in an […]

Should men take some infertility off of women’s plates?

A strand of Leftist reasoning wants to decrease the use of in vitro fertilization. Not, of course, because it is wrong, but because it is unfair. In an Atlantic article arguing that “Men Might Be the Key to an American Baby Boom,” the unfairness heads in two directions. For one, men don’t receive the health […]

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The US needs a new Yemen strategy

ADEN, YEMEN — Winston Churchill supposedly quibbled that Americans always do the right thing, but only after trying everything else first. Democrats were for Saudi airstrikes before they were against them. President Donald Trump preferred sanctions and designating the Houthis as terrorists, only to have President Joe Biden reverse course. In his second term, Trump tried bombing the Houthis and then […]

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