Interesting Times

Clinging to empiricism, facts, and what we see with our eyes and hear with our ears is the central and most essential task of resistance.

The administration is separating families at the border just to send a message. That’s straight out of the totalitarian playbook.

Elites see the rise of “strongmen” like Trump as a detour, but Italy’s election is yet another sign that populist nationalism is here to stay.

Our society is starved for compassion, gratitude, spirituality, and connection. Psychedelics can help.

As Trump systematically undoes Obama’s policy achievements at home and abroad, the left is gutting his post-racial cultural vision.

As American politics have become increasingly tribal, our willingness to disagree has been replaced with an impulse to loathe and expel.

As American politics have become increasingly tribal, our willingness to disagree has been replaced with an impulse to loathe and expel.

Anxiety is a predictable and understandable response to the U.K.’s ethnic and cultural transformation. Ignoring it gave us Brexit (and Trump).

His embrace of change isn’t an existential threat to the church — rather, it may be key to the institution’s salvation.

Americans should watch what is happening in Hungary with a great deal of attention — and alarm about similar trends playing out at home.

Nominating Gina Haspel to head the CIA sends a clear message to the world: From now on the U.S. won’t punish war criminals, it will reward them.

Suppressing scientific findings on group differences among human beings is both intellectually dishonest and politically counterproductive.

Trump’s staff purge is the start of a dark and dangerous new phase in which no constraints on his whims will be tolerated.

The evidence of human progress is irrefutable, but it’s been accompanied by a loss of meaning that’s harder to quantify.

Trump maintains a cultish following, but with a new wave of scandal, his incompetence and boundless corruption may start to seep through.

The antidote to our toxic political and cultural climate: Look to figures who found themselves in similar circumstances yet kept their heads.

When universities embrace an identity-based “social justice” movement, it puts the broader culture in danger of drifting away from liberal democracy.

In a tribalized society, there’s no room for an independent inquiry — which is why Republicans are doing all they can to undermine Robert Mueller.

The rise of Trump is the most obvious answer, but the profound shift in the tone and substance of gay-rights advocacy is having an impact, too.

The new breed of feminists — and liberals in general — are going to have to choose between reality and ideology.