Woke Lost, but Freedom Didn’t Win | Compact
Andrew Doyle begins his new book The End of Woke by expressing his hope that the book will one day become a compendium of historical curiosities that merely makes “a decent doorstop.”| Compact
Andrew Doyle begins his new book The End of Woke by expressing his hope that the book will one day become a compendium of historical curiosities that merely makes “a decent doorstop.”| Compact
America’s political realignment along regional and demographic lines has largely followed the decline of progressive economic nationalism.| Compact
Last week, President Donald Trump announced a staggering 50 percent tariff on imports from the European Union, set to take effect on June 1, 2025 unless the bloc agrees to significant concessions aimed at rebalancing a trade deficit of more than $200 billion.| Compact
Policymakers and analysts across the West believe that immigration is the solution to the problem of low fertility.| Compact
This week, the Trump administration granted Chevron a limited carve-out from sanctions on Venezuela.| Compact
In 2018, just four percent of 18 to 24 year-olds in the United Kingdom attended church at least once a month, according to Talking Jesus, a survey of 4,000 adults. By 2022, that figure had quadrupled.| Compact
Compact, an online magazine founded in 2022, seeks a new political center devoted to the common good.| Compact
The magnitude of Donald Trump’s success in giving peace a chance in Gaza can be gauged by the headlines and coverage of normally fiercely anti-Trump mainstream media outlets.| Compact
After two years of war and tens of thousands of casualties, Israel and Hamas have accepted a peace plan put forward by US President Donald Trump.| Compact
On Wednesday, September 17, several hundred technologists, legislative staff, software developers, open government advocates, and so-called “civic hackers” streamed into an auditorium beneath Capitol Hill for the 7th Annual Congressional Hackathon.| Compact
Recently, President Trump announced a $100,000 fee for each new H-1B visa, responding to concerns that these visas for high-skilled immigrants are issued too freely.| Compact
There are few adjustments more psychologically painful than the one required when yesterday’s radicals wake up to discover they are today’s establishment.| Compact
Five years ago, chants of “Black Lives Matter” rang out in the streets, and elite institutions underwent a racial reckoning.| Compact
Donald Trump’s electoral victory last year, driven in part by rising support from young men, was the culmination of a backlash against the girlboss feminism and intersectional rhetoric that had dominated the culture over the prior decade.| Compact
The past few weeks have felt unusually fraught and hectic even for the age of Trump, but some calm and closure seems to be on the horizon.| Compact
To date, 21 US states have enacted legislation requiring pornography websites (websites with over one-third explicit content) to use stringent age verification systems.| Compact
Fara Dabhoiwala’s revisionist history What is Free Speech? has arrived in the United States at an odd moment.| Compact
What is Ukraine fighting for? The answer may appear obvious: It is fighting to take back its lost territories...| Compact
The government has failed, so the citizenry must pay. The British government has so completely lost control of the national frontiers—an amazing achievement given that they consist of many miles of deep salt water—that it plans to issue breathing licences to everyone living here.| Compact
By age and disposition, I am only a reluctant convert to the cult of Honor Levy, author of one of 2024’s more anticipated and controversial debuts.| Compact
Boosting immigration would seem a no-brainer to address the West’s ongoing demographic implosion and revive its stagnating economies. Even Japan now recruits foreign temporary workers for its rapidly aging economy.| Compact
In July 2021, the Chinese government introduced a sweeping ban on most forms of after-school tutoring.| Compact
At Amazon’s JFK8 warehouse on Staten Island, workers voted to unionize in April 2022. More than three years later, they still don’t have a contract.| Compact
Is that all there was? Did months of boastful promises to end the war in Ukraine really produce little more than an Oval Office tongue-lashing of Volodymyr Zelensky ...| Compact
It has now been eight years since a leader came to power for which Western democracy had little precedent.| Compact
"If so many of these countries around the world are incapable of governing themselves, it’s time for us to just put the imperial hat back on, to say we’re going to govern those countries."| Compact
Nvidia is the most valuable company in the world—and potentially one of the foremost threats to America’s national security.| Compact
If you listen to the bulk of media coverage of the latest Ukraine-Russia peace push, then ending the three-year-long war in Ukraine would be a calamity for the country.| Compact
Concerns about “gerontocracy”—rule by the old—are roiling American politics after President Biden’s disastrous performance in last week’s presidential debate.| Compact
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement By Fredrik deBoer Simon & Schuster, 256 pages, $29.99 The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics By Richard Hanania Broadside, 288 pages, $32 The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time| Compact
In February 2016, Donald Trump scandalized Republican Party elites at a CNN town hall event in Columbus, Ohio, when he dared to call George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq “a big fat mistake” and “the worst decision any one has made, any president has made, in the history of this country.”| Compact
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it does not expect to do research.| Compact
Of all the technical flaws in the badly broken international trade system, the one most intuitive to the layman is the race to the bottom on labor.| Compact
This Friday, Donald Trump will host Vladimir Putin for a summit in Alaska, the first time an American president has met the Russian leader since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.| Compact
“But crime is going down!” That’s what many liberal thought leaders are bleating lately, and who can blame them?| Compact
Catherine Lacey is a writer of extraordinary gifts, with hard-earned adult wisdom and the kind of effortless sentence-to-sentence felicity that makes any writer reading her strongly consider pursuing alternate careers.| Compact
While the Gaza Strip lies in rubble, the cause of Palestinian freedom seems on the verge of a global breakthrough.| Compact
When I started trying to get into journalism in the early 2010s, the old newspaper business model was in terminal crisis.| Compact
Donald Trump is no stranger to the rise and fall of great love affairs. One could ask his former wives and girlfriends—from Ivana Trump to the infamous Stormy Daniels—who each saw his interests pass to a new flame.| Compact
For the extremely online political junkies who remember it, the “post-left” moment that blazed brightest during the pandemic was supposed to mark a departure from the usual script of American politics.| Compact
A small but powerful literary sub-genre is the novel of pagan intoxication breaking forth in a modern, secular milieu.| Compact
At a time when the West is doubling down on militarism, Slovenia briefly challenged the status quo.| Compact
On July 18, after declaring “Crypto Week,” President Trump signed into law the GENIUS Act, in a major legislative win for the burgeoning cryptocurrency lobby.| Compact
In the early 2000s, Sydney was rocked by a series of gang rapes. Victims were ordinary Australian girls, some as young as 13.| Compact
The Epstein mythology can be roughly defined as the popular belief, nearly ubiquitous on social media and adjacent outlets, that the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein orchestrated a sprawling child sex-trafficking operation.| Compact
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In 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Europe’s “Green Deal.” She described the climate plan as a “man on the moon moment,” a revolutionary transformation of the European economy that would lead to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and changes to nearly every sector of| Compact
During the 2020 Covid lockdowns, the privately owned realms of the internet became the obligatory venues for public life.| Compact
WelcomeFest, held at DC’s Hamilton Hotel on June 4, was the largest post-2024 election gathering to date of self-described centrist Democrats seeking to revive their party’s fortunes.| Compact
The most recent Los Angeles riots reflect, among other things, the response of immigrant activists to President Trump’s crackdown, and the latest resurgence of organized left-wing activism, which had been relatively quiet in the early months of the new administration.| Compact
Frederick Forsyth, who died on June 9 at the age of 86, was a man of action—Royal Air Force fighter pilot, reporter in postcolonial Africa’s civil wars, even an MI6 spy—who became a novelist of action.| Compact
Earlier this month, Ohio State University unveiled its new “AI Fluency Program,” a campus-wide initiative designed to ensure that every student graduates fluent in artificial intelligence.| Compact
The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) founded in New York City in 1987 by Larry Kramer, defined itself as a “non-partisan group of individuals, united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis.”| Compact
The strangest things we do are also the things we think least about—for example, drinking cows’ milk, handing our children over into the care of paid strangers, going to gyms, wearing neckties, enjoying war as spectator sport, and shaving.| Compact
In a column published shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Compact’s editor-at-large Gregory Conti characterized the newfound alliance between MAGA populists and Big Tech oligarchs as an “anti-clerical coalition.”| Compact
If you are inundated this fall with campaign ads alleging that “Republicans claim to support the working-class, but they cut food stamps for low-income kids to pay for a tax cut for millionaires,” just remember that outcome could have been avoided.| Compact
In the prologue to his new book The Last Supper, Paul Elie remembers being a young man in the 1980s, “riding the D train with The Village Voice and the Pensées in a black messenger bag.”| Compact
James Walsh’s viral recent New York article, “Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College,” was not notable because it revealed the extent to which AI has taken over education; that much was already obvious to anyone who has been around a school or college lately.| Compact
There is a genre of popular media history that traces the rise of the propaganda-saturated reality we now inhabit to the influence of particular individuals who had (or claimed to have) novel insights into major shifts in communication technology.| Compact
Earlier this month, President Trump became the most pro-nuclear executive our nation has seen in over half a century when he signed four separate executive orders dedicated to quadrupling American nuclear energy capacity by 2050.| Compact
Nearly every major figure in the conservative movement has a biography.| Compact
President Andrew Jackson has always been the favorite historical figure to compare with Donald Trump. The similarities are familiar and recognizable to Trump’s warmest admirers and worst enemies.| Compact
Imagine a 23-year-old recent college graduate working a gig job, managing multiple subscription services, and with only $50 left in her checking account. She might seem unlikely to splurge on a $550 ticket to Coachella, California’s annual pop-spectacle music festival.| Compact
The past decade or more in American politics witnessed a breakdown of the party system.| Compact
During his unsuccessful foray into California politics, the muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair used to tell audiences that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”| Compact
In an extraordinary and unprecedented move, Romania’s constitutional court announced last week the annulment of the results of the first round of the presidential elections held on Nov. 24.| Compact
In August, the San Francisco’s District Attorney’s office’s chief of staff sent a memo to the MacArthur Foundation that declared, “Our office will not be used as sharecroppers to a foundation’s vision of criminal justice reform.”| Compact
It’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list.| Compact
While Elon Musk was chainsawing at CPAC, his ex-girlfriend, the singer Grimes, pleaded with him to attend to their child’s medical crisis.| Compact
There’s been a dustup over love. No, I’m not talking about Taylor and Travis, who seem to be doing swimmingly. It’s JD Vance.| Compact
In the debate pitting defenders of racial preferences in college admissions against proponents of meritocracy, both sides implicitly accept the premise that there must be a single national elite. What divides the two sides is how the members of this single national elite are to be selected in their late| Compact
The oddity of Megalopolis is that it is neither as far-reaching nor as demented as its reputation suggests.| Compact
Who exactly is Kamala Harris? What would she do as leader of the most powerful country in the history of the world? It’s a question she herself seems hesitant to answer.| Compact
Teamsters President Sean O’Brien’s speech came as something of a shock at the Republican National Convention Monday night.| Compact
At Columbia, we can most readily perceive the jarring dissonance between the spectacle of unrest over Gaza and the realities of the conflict that has been overshadowed by the spectacle.| Compact
Student protests are roiling college campuses across the nation. Some of the goals of these protests are beyond what universities can deliver, such as a ceasefire in Gaza. But others—like divestment from companies doing business in Israel—are not.| Compact
