Avery Collins
What to Defund
Article I grants Congress the power of the purse, arguably its most effective weapon to combat executive overreach.…
How Do You Talk a Klansman out of the Klan? Ask Daryl Davis.
Daryl Davis has been one of my most requested guests for years, and we finally got him on…
Niall Ferguson and Tyler Cowen: AIpocalypse Now? Plus. . .
It’s Monday, September 14. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free…
Niall Ferguson: AIpocalypse Now
The moment when everyone begins talking about an issue is usually the moment when the probability of rational…
Tyler Cowen: The AI Slowdown Is Not What It Seems
When is a slowdown not a slowdown, or perhaps even an acceleration?Dario Amodei, CEO and co-founder of Anthropic,…
Chris Wright on Energy Abundance
For the better part of a decade, when Americans thought about energy, they thought about climate change: how…
Arthur Brooks: Why Americans No Longer Grieve Together
One gorgeous Tuesday morning 25 years ago, I grabbed a cab from LaGuardia Airport into New York City.…
Before Astroturfing for Paramount, Did This Firm Flack for Flock?
Not long after I published a recent op-ed about how the astroturfing site Neighbors for Strong Communities (NSC)…
Undaunted: The Painful Memory of 9/11 Lingers
For those who remember a quarter century ago, there was “before 9/11” — and then, after. For anyone…
Tom the Dancing Bug
Follow Ruben Bolling on Substack; join Tom the Dancing Bug’s Inner Hive subscription club; and please visit the…
The Danger of Preparing for the Last Surprise
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Pearl Harbor in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed December 7 a national day…
Never Forget
RJ draws several editorial cartoons each week for his substack, e pluribus cartoonum, and for Roll Call, the…
25 Year Later, We Still Haven’t Dealt with the Continuity Gaps in Our Government
Today marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most searing events in modern American history — a…
The Stakes Could Not Be Higher
As it does every year, Sept. 11 should remind us that, however absurd our current politics, the stakes…
Another Week, Another Spate of Trump Corruption Scandals
Contrarians, we have grown all too accustomed to the staggering scale of corruption oozing from every corner of…