The rise of Eric Trump
His path from Charlottesville vintner to crypto kingpin reveals something profound about power in this country
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Tuesday
Trump’s revolution is coming to the UK
What I learned from debating at Oxford and Cambridge
Joe Biden’s puzzling legacy
At least since the disaster of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the unavoidable question was: who is running the US government?
The anti-Semitism algorithm
China, Russia and Iran are fanning hatred online to undermine America
How China is out-innovating the West
The West, bloated on its own hype, now faces a leaner competitor
The frightening advance of China’s military capabilities
Close observers, including Putin, have noted Chinese military R&D has surpassed Russia and the West
Inside the struggle for technological control in South Africa
The larger concern isn’t domestic equity – but China
How deepfake fraud is rewiring our minds
All Americans are going to learn what it’s like to live in central New York City – but worse
The architects of ‘AI rights’ are a threat to humanity
Inside the body-denying ideology moving fast towards a technological dystopia
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The reviving of the American mind
For too long, academia has stifled intellectual originality
The Palisades, reimagined
You can see how wrecked the place is, and how temporarily low the de jure population – but the clean-up and rebuilding are well under way
The Trump administration is giving us excellence, not equity
We may not be in a golden age, but we can see one on the horizon
Wokeism is stifling thought in America’s universities
Unless drastic action is taken, our universities will cease to serve us and our democracy
How Christopher Rufo is changing American education
‘When I go at it in these campaigns, I truly want to win and I want to win in a material way’
Why is intelligence declining?
Over the past 20 years we’ve seen the intellectual degradation of both electorate and elected
We shouldn’t downplay the risks of ADHD medication
Surely there are other – better – ways to help a child who is struggling at school than to accept medication as an easy option
The real battle for Europe
For the whole of its political history, the EU has been in harmony with the Democratic party
Has Trump’s Kennedy Center overhaul worked?
The center has seen half a century of American presidents come and go, each leaving their fingerprints on its marble halls
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is no martyr
The Dems have seized upon Garcia as a moral life jacket whose buoyancy they are counting on to save them
How the Blue Dogs have evolved
Their focus is less on the budget and more on representing the views of working-class voters