In the past thirty or so years, the academy has replaced the church as the center of the liberal moral imagination, providing the sense of a community bound by ethics, a firmament of texts and knowledge that should inform action, and a meeting space for like-minded people.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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The darkly elegant finding buried inside all of this is that Americans have somehow maintained their personal equanimity while watching the entire architecture of collective life crumble around them. People feel fine, and the system feels broken. These two facts coexist peacefully, year after year, survey after survey, administration after administration.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Red-flag laws, when balanced with due process, save lives. Universal background checks are not tyranny but common sense. Gun ownership should carry the weight of duty, not just the thrill of entitlement. The Second Amendment was written for a very specific reason. Responsibility must again become the companion of freedom.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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How to hedge your portfolio against an AI Bubble | The Economist
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Here is the Fall 2025 HigherED.zone ranking of the Five Best Business Schools in Kansas:
This Top Five List was determined by a ranked choice vote of the HigherED.zone editorial board.
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Peter Hitchens on Why the Left Think They are Better.
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Modern American life is absolutely steeped in video, which follows us, at every hour, from TV screens to smartphones to laptops, from movies to social media rants to workplace anti-harassment training modules. The soundtrack to most of it is some form of sync.
~ Ryan Francis Bradley via The New York Times Magazine
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When your local hospital and nursing home get loaded with debt, cut back on staffing and start charging more for worse patient outcomes, that’s financialization as tragedy. When airlines earn more by selling miles to credit card companies than by flying passengers, with consumers footing the hidden bill every time they swipe at the register, financialization has become farce.
~ Oren Cass via The New York Times
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