New pressures from outside of the academy have provoked a long-deferred reckoning with the overlapping crises of the American University.

If Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh thinks he has a difficult inflation challenge with Trump breathing down his neck for lower interest rates, he should spare a thought for Christine Lagarde, the ...

Last week, I sat at the New School, listening to the Mannes Orchestra play Charles Ives’s Variations on “America.” It opened the new Center for the American Experience, on whose advisory board I serve ...

The Congressional Budget Office released its new long-term projections for Social Security’s finances. Surprisingly, the CBO found that Social Security’s 75-year shortfall declined, from 4.71% to 4.55 ...

Troubles seem to be coming to the eurozone economy not as single spies but in battalions. These troubles include an Iranian-induced energy price shock, an onslaught of Chinese exports in the form of ...

Being early is the same as being wrong. It’s a Wall Street adage worth keeping in mind when evaluating extravagant claims about the potential economic impact of artificial intelligence. Caution is ...

Myth: Most low-income children live in apartments. Market Reality: Nine out of ten children in low-income renting households live in homes with at least two bedrooms, and about two-thirds of these ...

There is an unlikely figure who might have saved American schools a great deal of time and trouble teaching children to read over the past half century: the legendary physicist Richard Feynman. In a ...

When Donald Trump met Xi Jinping in Beijing in May 2026, the two leaders agreed to establish a relationship of “constructive strategic stability.” Unfortunately, despite this moniker, the new U.S.

Seldom before have the stars aligned themselves as well for gold’s longer-run price outlook as they have today. It is not simply that the United States has unsustainable public finances, is losing ...

China’s Ministry of Commerce this month released its 2025 bulletin on outbound investment, and, surprise, things look good. Outbound investment climbed 11 percent past $213 billion, a new record. You ...