November 20, 2025
Preview articles in this issue with pieces by Gary Saul Morson, Edward S. Shapiro, Yuriy V. Karpov, and more.
November 20, 2025
Literary critic Gary Saul Morson sees in the intellectual conformity of today eerie parallels with Soviet-era thought control. Using Russian literature—from Tolstoy and Dostoevsky to Mandelstam......
November 20, 2025
Historian Edward S. Shapiro examines the report on antisemitism at Harvard commissioned by the school in the wake of its anemic response to the unrest on campus after the Hamas attacks on Israel of Oc......
November 20, 2025
Three economists examine data from 1900-2022 and find that the more the state controls economic life, the more constrained academic freedom tends to become.
November 20, 2025
Educator Yuriy V. Karpov argues that the widespread embrace of the "systemic racism" narrative has not served the nation well. While efforts such as affirmative action and criminal justice len......
November 20, 2025
Economist Robert Cherry offers a thorough rebuttal to the claim—popular among American student protesters and anti-Zionist intellectuals—that Israel is a “white settler-colonial̶......
November 20, 2025
Withholding his name to prevent backlash against a college-aged nephew, a veteran college teacher expresses frustration and alarm at the lack of empirical rigor, ideological bias, and political activi......
November 20, 2025
Humanities Prof. Gorman Beauchamp explores the recurring figure of the "Oreo"—a black person perceived as trying to be white—in some of the most notable black literature, and obser......
November 20, 2025
Drawing on the work of Philip Rieff and Charles Taylor, two BYU scholars trace the shift of Western society to a secular culture where moral meaning arises solely from human reason and personal autono......
November 20, 2025
A mathematics professor recounts his curiosity about the field of sociology after a student passed the CLEP sociology exam with minimal preparation—something he says is unthinkable for math or s......
November 20, 2025
Sociologist Alexander Riley concedes some of Larson’s points, but argues that there must be more to the story, given sociology’s quite considerable contributions to human understanding.
November 20, 2025
Glenn M. Ricketts reviews Jeffery Sikkenga’s and David Davenport’s A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America's Civic Education Crisis, a treatise on the dire state of Am......
November 20, 2025
Louis Galarowicz is impressed with Stanely K. Ridgley’s Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities, a 2023 book whose indictment of DEI programs in higher educati......
November 20, 2025
John Adam Moreau has mostly good things to say about Carrie Gress’s discussion of “ruinous feminism’s” social harm in The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Ha......
November 20, 2025
David Randall assesses Kim Stanley Robinson’s The High Sierra: A Love Story and finds the book plodding yet overwrought in its love of nature absent a human element.
November 20, 2025
Shale Horowitz appreciates Abigail Shrier’s Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up, a powerful critique of contemporary psychological practices and the therapeutic culture t......
November 20, 2025
Njomëza Pema looks at Kingstone Studio’s America Graphic Novel Series, which Pema praises for its educational and patriotic intent but criticizes for its failure to deliver compel......
November 20, 2025
David Randall takes on the widely discussed We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite by Musa al-Gharbi,which despite its flaws offers a powerful indictment of......
November 20, 2025
Roger L. Geiger thinks Ian F. McNeely’s The University Unfettered: Public Higher Education in an Age of Disruption has a few too many good things to say about the administrative takeov......
November 20, 2025
Mark Moyar takes on the Netflix docuseries Turning Point: The Vietnam War, which ignores recent historical works indicating that the war had logical justification and was, in fact, winnable.
November 20, 2025
Mark G. Brennan believes Anthony T. Kronman’s True Conservatism: Reclaiming our Humanity in an Arrogant Agehas much to offer conservatives who are willing to reflect critically on thei......
November 20, 2025
Ian Oxnevad, Senior Fellow for Foreign Affairs and Security Studies at NAS, thinks Scott Walter’s Arabella: The Dark Network of Leftist Billionaires Secretly Transforming America is an......
November 20, 2025
At-large AQ poetry advisor Catharine Brosman reviews Jonathan Chaves’s Kites: Poems, a follow-up to his 2023 collection Surfing the Torrent.
November 20, 2025
Edward S. Shapiro says that Marcia Chatelain’s Pulitzer prize-winning book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, fails to acknowledge some of the positive effects the hamburge......
November 20, 2025
David Randall makes his third appearance with an evaluation of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Modernizing the EPA: A Blueprint for Congress, a book that accuses the EPA and env......
