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1 month ago | aei.org | Jay Cost |Jeffrey Rosen |Joshua Katz |Gary Schmitt

Multimedia Constitutional Meaning in the Shadow of the Articles of Confederation Multimedia The Essential Senate Post American Linguistic Exceptionalism Report American Enterprise Institute How Congress Lost, Part IV: Washington, Foreign Policy, and the Emergence of Presidential Governance Report American Enterprise Institute What the White House Says About the American Constitutional Order Working Paper Wielding the Executive Power, 1775–1789 Multimedia Is President Trump Immune From...
Latinx Oxoniensis

2 months ago | newcriterion.com | Douglas Murray |Heather Mac Donald |Samuel Lipman |Joshua Katz

Last month, the University of Oxford announced in the weekly Gazette a series of proposed “changes to the Conduct of Ceremonies in Congregation, and certain other Ceremonies.” Among these changes are some alterations to the Latin spoken at the conferral of degrees, which, the university claims, are “necessary so that the Latin used can refer to those who identify as non-binary, as well as those who identify as male and female.” The necessity, it should be stressed, is not obvious since the...
A Discipline in Disarray? The State of Sociology

Mar 24, 2025 | aei.org | Brad Wilcox |Joshua Katz |Frederick M. Hess |Howard Husock

As Christian Smith concluded in his 2014 book, The Sacred Project of American Sociology, “Sociology has at a deep level become . . . ‘a herd of independent minds.’” Few would dispute that the herd mentality has become pervasive in the past decade across the academic disciplines, and more so in sociology. What happened to the field? What are the bright spots today? And what trends are shaping this field’s future?
The Critic’s Notebook

Mar 11, 2025 | newcriterion.com | Victor Davis Hanson |Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |Stephen Schwartz |Joshua Katz

Fiction:Gabriel’s Moon, by William Boyd (Grove Atlantic): Stylish is the word that came to my mind while reading Gabriel’s Moon, the newest novel from the prolific William Boyd. A tale of accidental espionage, it has the flavor of one of Graham Greene’s so-called entertainments but contains appealing depths too. Moving from Brazzaville to London to Madrid, Cadiz, and Warsaw in the 1960s, this is a cheerful Cold War romp.
An unusual recital

Mar 10, 2025 | newcriterion.com | Victor Davis Hanson |Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |Stephen Schwartz |Joshua Katz

Saturday night was a very unusual night in Carnegie Hall. Angel Blue, the starry soprano from California, sang a recital with Lang Lang, the superstar pianist from China. Big-time pianists sometimes accompany singers. Evgeny Kissin has played for Matthias Goerne. So has Daniil Trifonov. Yefim Bronfman has played for Magdalena Kožená. So has Mitsuko Uchida. Horowitz played for Fischer-Dieskau (how ’bout that?).
Rick Hess’s Edu-Scholar Rankings, Elite Institutions, and the University of Arkansas

Jan 16, 2025 | aei.org | Joshua Katz |Julia Cataneo

Near the start of each of the last two years, I commented on some aspect of my colleague Rick Hess’s annual Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, which recognize the 200 academics who, in the opinion of Hess and his committee, have had the greatest influence on educational policy and practice in the previous 12 months. In 2023, I noted how few academic humanists appear on the list, which is instead the domain of economists, psychologists, sociologists, and other social scientists.
New York private school rejects DEI

Dec 12, 2024 | city-journal.org | Joshua Katz

There is no need to recite the depredations on all sectors of American society of initiatives devoted to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Our educational institutions are among the hardest hit, making it hard in some parts of the country to find schools that don’t lecture even the youngest students about “settler colonialism,” the evils of “whiteness,” and the “genocide” supposedly being perpetrated by the Israelis. When institutions push back, as they occasionally do, it merits attention.
Keynote Conversation at Pepperdine’s Making Men Moral Conference

Nov 26, 2024 | aei.org | Robert George |Joshua Katz

Following up on a successful conference in Washington, DC last year, the School of Public Policy is delighted to welcome our Ronald Reagan Honorary Professor Robby George, and a diverse group of scholars to our Malibu campus to explore the arguments and impact of George’s book, Making Men Moral. At the core of George’s groundbreaking book is the case that public policy and law cannot be expected to be “neutral” on certain questions of morality.
High School Constitutionalism

Nov 19, 2024 | city-journal.org | Joshua Katz

When she was a 16-year-old student at Avenues, a private school in New York, Olivia Eve Gross started what was probably America’s first high school law review.
New-York Linguistics

Oct 31, 2024 | aei.org | Joshua Katz |Zichu Yang

It was in 1789 in New-York (as the city was then more often than not spelled) that George Washington took the oath of office and became the first President of the United States. On election day this year, it has now been announced, the venerable New-York Historical Society, founded in 1804 and located six or so miles uptown from Federal Hall, will be changing its name to the New York Historical. The loss of the hyphen (that’s Greek for “in one”) is sad.