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People take photos near a John Harvard statue, left, on the Harvard University campus, Jan. 2, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. (Steven Senne/AP)

Restoring Veritas? Harvard University still has a long way to go toward returning to its true mission

Michael M. Rosen · October 18, 2026 4:00 pm

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An unhinged biography of left-wing historian Howard Zinn

Associate Justice Samuel Alito stands in his chambers at the Supreme Court in Washington, on Sept. 29. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

In ‘So Ordered,’ Justice Samuel Alito reflects on his judicial philosophy

From left to right: British author and humorist Jennifer Munro; downtown Jonesborough, Tennessee; a festivalgoer takes notes. (Farahn Morgan)

The power of storytelling: What the country could learn from a small-town festival

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Strait ballot voting: Iran, the midterm elections, and the war that would not end

Jimmy Carter, a sometimes outcast in the world’s most exclusive club

David Mark January 3, 2025 5:35 am

Will Kamala Harris’s middling Israel support be a high-water mark for Democratic presidential nominees?

Mike Wagenheim January 3, 2025 5:25 am

House committee tries to rein in a VA loan program

Kevin R. Kosar January 3, 2025 5:20 am

Academics against higher education

Grant Addison January 3, 2025 5:05 am

Democracy vs. bureaucracy: How populism became the handmaiden of tech

Dominic Green January 3, 2025 4:45 am

Brave SANU world: Lessons from a postpartum retreat

Kara Kennedy January 3, 2025 4:30 am

Netflix’s non-adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude

Armin Rosen January 2, 2025 11:20 pm

Lee Edwards, 1932-2024

W. James Antle III January 2, 2025 11:00 pm

Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of office in Berlin on Nov. 22, 2005. (Jockel Finck/AP)

Angela Merkel’s ashes

James Kirchick January 2, 2025 10:43 pm

Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer and the trouble with academia

Jesse Adams January 2, 2025 10:37 pm

The Baseball Hall of Fame abides

Ben Jacobs January 2, 2025 10:34 pm

Internet voyeurism has drilled a hole in the soul of rap

Ben Sixsmith January 2, 2025 10:29 pm