To disarm Hezbollah, look to the past

October 28, 2025

To disarm Hezbollah, look to the past

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Sitting at a café in Dahieh, the southern suburb and Hezbollah stronghold of the Lebanese capital, is to witness the decline in Hezbollah’s fortunes. Women gossip and children are oblivious, but look around, and some men are missing fingers or eyes, the legacy of holding a sabotaged beeper. Hezbollah is still a […]

Higher education’s politics of compliance shift with Trump in charge

As university administrators escalate their opposition to the Trump administration‘s oversight, funding reductions, and executive actions related to campus diversity, equity, inclusion, and illegal immigration, they appear to be overlooking a critical precedent: it was former President Barack Obama who introduced the framework for aggressive federal intervention through more than 20 controversial Dear Colleague letters […]

The new White House ballroom should be used for dancing, too

The new $200 million White House ballroom being built by President Donald Trump is going to be used for elegant dinners featuring dignified foreign leaders. It should also be used for dancing. The president should hold regular dances where Americans can gather to swing, salsa, zydeco, and even rave. In the midst of increased atomization […]

The next Republican is always supposedly ‘worse’ than the last

In this world, nothing is certain except that the next Republican presidential hopeful will be “scarier” than the last. This is one of the most frequent narratives in modern political messaging. So frequent, in fact, that it has become nearly as predictable as flu season, only drearier and with less charm. You can practically set […]

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere reminds us why Nebraska is his best record

Filmmaker Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, an adaptation of Warren Zanes’s book, opens on a sweaty, spent Bruce Springsteen in 1982 as he’s backstage, catching his breath after another herculean three-hour set, the kind that had already become legend on this tour. Up to that point, Springsteen’s career had followed a jagged, uncertain climb. The […]

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Parents win as New York court rejects racial quotas

Defending Education scored a major victory after a New York appellate court affirmed that racial balancing in New York City’s K-12 talented and gifted programs has no constitutional authority. In IntegrateNYC v. City of New York, the court issued a 5-2 decision, resolving a 2021 complaint brought by Defending Education. The court found that the […]

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