Scott Gottlieb writes that even if the Wuhan virus doesn’t mutate into a more potent illness, as it could, it’s a disturbing reminder that we remain too vulnerable to these zoonotic threats, as illnesses that spread from animals to humans are known.
In a new report, Frederick W. Kagan, Nicholas Carl, and Marie Donovan examine the Quds Force — the branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commanded by Qassem Soleimani — and explore the future of the Quds Force’s dominance over Iranian military operations abroad.
When the Senate opened its impeachment trial by swearing an oath to “do impartial justice,” the candid citizen might ask whether such a thing is even possible. The candid senator might, too. How can partisan senators do “impartial justice”? This is a trial of President Donald Trump, but it is more than that, argues Adam White.
The early days of 2020 have reminded us just how profoundly education politics have shifted in the past few years. For three decades, there was a quiet assumption that education’s growing economic import was pushing education politics toward the pragmatic middle. It turns out, though, that this dynamic was surprisingly fragile, writes Frederick M. Hess.
Writing in Commentary, Matthew Continetti posits that Trump's killing of Qassem Soleimani was the death knell for the yearslong failure of the Obama administration's attempted rapprochement with the Iranian regime.
Everybody knows that Americans have long been losing trust in institutions. But what does that actually mean? Just what is an institution? What is involved in having trust in such a thing and in losing that trust? And how is that widespread collapse of confidence related to the daunting, complex social crisis our society is living through? In “A Time to Build,” Yuval Levin takes up these questions.
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