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Standing Up for Bureaucracy Is Not Standing Up for Science
Francis Collins and the crusade against Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Commentary | Mar. 19, 2025
America Still Needs a Covid Reckoning
Why does nobody want to talk about the most tragic breakdown of leadership and ethics in our lifetimes?
Scott W. Atlas | Commentary | Mar. 4, 2025
University of California at Planned Parenthood
UC San Diego teams with Planned Parenthood to collect “tissues” from pre-born infants aged 4 to 23 weeks.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Commentary | Dec. 2, 2024
Blaming Bill Buckley for Racism, January 6, and More
Historian David Austin Walsh tries and fails to rebut Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism thesis.
Phillip W. Magness | Commentary | Nov. 26, 2024
Supreme Court Grants Cert in Mexico v. Smith & Wesson
Stephen P. Halbrook | Commentary | Oct. 24, 2024
Why So Many Students Hate Israel
Benjamin Ginsberg | Commentary | Oct. 4, 2024
How Venezuela Opposition Leaders Exposed Maduro’s Election Steal
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Commentary | Aug. 29, 2024
Real Free Speech Requires Real Freedom
Universities must grapple with challenging ideas, resist speech restrictions
William J. Watkins, Jr. | Commentary | July 8, 2024
From Solzhenitsyn to US Governors: No Lessons Learned
The government’s pandemic regime reflected an authoritarian mindset more than good policy.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Commentary | June 26, 2024
The War on Terror Is Still Hamstringing U.S. Foreign Policy
Ivan Eland | Commentary | June 24, 2024






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