Magazine Issue

September 17, 2019

Destroying the college presidency
Education

Destroying the college presidency

Americans’ confidence in higher education is sinking fast, at least according to an August Pew poll. It turns out that “only half of American adults think colleges…

Naomi Schaefer Riley and James Piereson
Queen Elizabeth
Magazine - Columnists

Queen Elizabeth

The candidate emerging as, I think, most likely to win the Democratic presidential nomination promises to cancel almost all student debt, make college free, create a massively-subsidized…

Hugo Gurdon
Humble justice
Magazine - Life & Arts

Humble justice

Justice Neil Gorsuch’s new book is not his first. He wrote a treatise on euthanasia in 2006 and contributed to another book of legal scholarship a decade…

Kyle Sammin
Obituary: T. Boone Pickens, 1928-2019
Business

Obituary: T. Boone Pickens, 1928-2019

The death last week of 91-year-old T. Boone Pickens, the southwest oilman, corporate raider, hedge funder, and philanthropist, reminds us that business tycoons in America used to…

Philip Terzian