PARIS — Gloria Steinem sent me a personal message not long ago thanking me for my "generous and encouraging" words that "make it worth getting older." Not worth it enough, apparently. Because one of the most visible faces of American second-wave feminism has just passed away peacefully at ...
It feels like just yesterday that America lost Charlie Kirk. I remember every detail vividly. Charlie and I were in daily contact that week, as he prepared for his next national campus speaking tour. I was part of an intimate Zoom meeting he had organized the night prior to its first ...
Is it the end of the Flynn effect? Decades ago, the researcher James Flynn recognized a secular increase in IQ scores around the world that amounted to humanity getting smarter all the time. Now, technology appears to be pushing the other way. The new results are in from a 2025 ...
Vice President JD Vance wants to pay married parents to stay home with their children, and he wants to do it with money Congress appropriated to help low-income families afford day care. Whatever one thinks of the goal, which may prove popular, the proposal fails every test we should apply to ...
U.S. citizens of a certain age can tell you where they were — in many cases, very precisely where they were) when they became aware that imperial Japanese naval and air forces paid that unannounced, and therefore unexpected, visit to Pearl Harbor back on Dec. 7, 1941. The time and date of the Japanese attack that opened the door for direct U.S. involvement in World War II are hard-wired into their individual and collective memories. Life in the U.S. changed on that occasion, they will tell you. After much political division and wrangling up to that point, the nation and its citizens ...
To the Journal editor: As I attempt to comprehend the implications of the Sept. 11, terrorist attack on the United States, I wonder if this event will be remembered as the psychological beginning of the 21st century. The world for Americans changed with this tragic event. As we look back on the past two years, events that occurred before last Tuesday may seem more like a continuation of the optimistic and innocent 1990s than part of the harsher realities of the new century. At this point, it is too early to predict what will occur next. However, there are some questions that should be ...
