At age 93, the magisterial Harvey Mansfield of Harvard has given us a splendid new book, The Rise and Fall of Rational Control. The title will be perplexing to most people. “What is ‘rational control’?” they will ask. And “how can such a thing, whatever it is, ‘rise and fall’?” Professor Mansfield provides a hint
When Stefan Merrill Block is about 12 years old, his paternal grandmother, Mimi, comes to visit his family in Texas. “The boy should be in school,” the elderly Jewish woman tells his mother. “It’s a Thursday! A boy on Thursday should be in a school learning a thing. He needs the—what do they call it?
Vice President JD Vance speaks ahead of the 53rd annual March for Life in Washington on Jan. 23, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times An Ohio man has been charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance when the Republican visited his home state. Shannon Mathre, 31, of Toledo, Ohio, was arrested on Feb. 6
Commuters wait to drive through the Holland Tunnel into New York City during morning rush hour traffic, in Jersey City, N.J., on March 8, 2023. Ted Shaffrey/AP Photo A federal judge on Feb. 6 directed the Trump administration to resume funding for a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey just as construction
(Left) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Rome, Italy, on July 10, 2025. (Center) U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on July 29, 2025. (Right) Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 8, 2025. Antonio Masiello, Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Evgenia Novozhenina/AFP via Getty Images Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Texas state Rep. Matt Morgan holds a map of the new proposed congressional districts in the state during a legislative session at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 20, 2025. Sergio Flores/Reuters Mid-decade redistricting—once an exception to the once-a-decade routine after each census—is now reshaping the U.S. House map in the mid-2020s.
A commercial scallop fishing boat enters the Manasquan Inlet in Point Pleasant, N.J., on May 4, 2012. Wayne Parry/AP Photo President Donald Trump revoked a prohibition on commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument on Friday, restoring rules that allow regulated harvesting in the protected Atlantic waters while citing existing federal