Many people have noted that the public school model is obviously unattractive when applied to other goods and services. For instance, few wo...

Sophisticated socialists and anti-socialists rightly dunk on “socialism is when government does thing” takes. But sometimes these takes cont...

Unless you live in one of a handful of swing states, your vote has an insignificant chance of being decisive. In reply, sometimes people arg...

 “The Gift of the Magi” is an old O. Henry short story about a poor, young couple planning for Christmas.  Della cuts and sells her long hai...

See the announcement here:  https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/we-cant-wait-for-universities-to Their expressed intentions include a strong co...

The late Ronald Dworkin was one of the great legal and political philosophers of modern times. This is true, I think, whether or not one agr...

The real world provides us with a nice test case to examine whether egalitarians are motivated by envy or a desire to help the poor. If they...