Anyone trying to understand the intensity of 21st-century political discourse will find clarity in Matthew Continetti's analysis of America's countercultures. Continetti describes a counterculture on the left that believes the United States "is corrupt and irredeemable" and a counterculture on the right that "sees America as on the verge of collapse." Although these sides hold opposing visions, Continetti argues that they both threaten the American way of life and warns, "Only a sober and reflective defense of the constitutional order and sustained attention to the priorities and aspirations of everyday, nonideological men and women will allow us to resist the two countercultures."

Why are so many prime-age Americans disconnected from the workforce? In a new report for the Joint Economic Committee, Scott Winship proposes that the answer is a combination of worker preferences, employer incentives, and government benefits and policies.

Karlyn Bowman analyzes the most recent edition of the American Family Survey, which provides "a deeper understanding of what ordinary people are thinking and how they are living their lives."

Steven E. Koonin's new video for PragerU discusses the hubris behind predictions about climate catastrophe. Global warming is no hoax, Koonin says, but the data and hard science indicate that the situation is not nearly as dire as the media report.

Andrew Ferguson praises a new biography of Robert E. Lee, which emphasizes what Ferguson calls the "unforgiveable crime" of treason. The general indifference to that shortcoming is, Ferguson believes, "a symptom of our intelligentsia's weakening devotion to the nation state."