An explorer climbs a cursed mountain, and discovers later that she came down with unwanted visitors

Also: American baseball players in Mexico, and more.

On the intersection of Edward Snowden with the wisdom of a Czech anticommunist dissident

The Trump administration frequently pretends to sympathize with the Iranian people, but in everything they do they demonstrate only hostility and contempt.

Trump’s decision to impose additional sanctions will do even more harm to ordinary Iranians.

Much like Romney’s complaints about the “flaws” in New START, Cruz’s complaints about “sunset clauses” and the like are objections made in bad faith by someone who wants to demolish the entire structure.

He bullied, he bragged, and his bromance with Trump couldn’t save him. In fact his own tactics may have done him in.

75 years later, Hayek’s opus contains salient lessons for proto-socialists and newer devotees of government power.

When churches are political tribes at prayer — and don’t want to change

How a comrade of the author became the protagonist of one of the most read anti-war novels of all time.

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

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

Memorizing it has become a lost art in the age of the iPhone, but it can still awaken us to a deeper understanding of our world.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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