A view from the front lines of a public charter school

The neocons and hawks in Trump’s circle stand alone these days, but their influence in the White House is still strong.

Also: The world of private writing workshops, and more.

An English teacher celebrates filling bins with oldthink tomes

I visited two friends in Manhattan. We weren’t the only ones in the room

Coming this fall: Supreme Court battles may change the meaning of “sex” under the law.

Tehran is equipped to take us off-guard at any moment. Questions should focus on how and why.

For foreign policy realists, a disappointing but not cataclysmic end to the search to replace John Bolton.

The country is in deep crisis and those in Washington who made it a “project” haven’t done much good.

It’s been criticized as little better than the horoscope section. But there’s great wisdom in there for those willing to look.

Iranian hard-liners have nothing on their American counterparts when it comes to overstating how powerful and influential the Iranian government is.

Hawks never think through the consequences of the wars they want to start, but they always wring their hands about the supposed “costs of inaction” that don’t exist.

Also: Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon” gets a new translation, and more.

Analyzing the French-Ahmari debate through Czeslaw Milosz’s concept

Therapeutic totalitarianism in an Oregon public agency’s workplace propaganda poster

This is what happens when you unilaterally pull out of a nuclear deal and then try to smother another country.

In our cancel culture, comics like Shane Gillis who push the envelope and don’t virtue signal have become suspect.

They believe we’re a long way from communitarian excess—and from home. Their opponents see something more sinister.

From Baltimore to San Francisco, many of America’s urban areas are blighted and in desperate need of reform.

The photojournalist’s new book recommends getting out of comfort zones, which is just what we did.

It is the most shameful episode in Obama’s presidency, and so it is perhaps natural that former officials that were in a position to do something about it pass over it in silence.

No one can honestly look at the Trump administration’s Iran policy and conclude that it has “worked” in any sense except to harm ordinary Iranians, stoke conflict, and destroy Iran’s economy.

The first rule of holes, as everyone knows, is to stop digging, but judging from Trump’s announcement today he doesn’t understand that he is in a hole.

“Bolton lite” isn’t much of an improvement over Bolton.

Also: The physical demands of chess, and more.

You could hardly ask for a better demonstration of how mindless and knee-jerk the addiction to sanctions is than Rubio’s threat against this small Pacific nation.

This is typical: former officials who write truthful memoirs often face threats, lawsuits, and even imprisonment.

It is important to remember that the decisions to renege on the JCPOA and launch the economic war on Iran were completely unnecessary and wrong.

Also: The digital rebirth of “The Far Side,” and more.

It’s slamming farmers and raising prices on consumer goods. China will want to make a deal soon and America should agree.

Hand-wringing over diminished supply and prices will only lead to war talk. Besides, the market will quickly adjust.