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June 09, 2026

The Fight to Protect Women’s Sports Is an Economic Battle, Too

Today, more than 3.4 million girls participate in high school athletics nationwide, which represents about half of all high school girls. That’s up from roughly 4% in 1972, when Title IX—the federal law requiring that girls have equal opportunity to participate in all aspects of education, including sports—became law. Continue Reading...
June 04, 2026

Tolkien and Tech

Given J.R.R. Tolkien’s self-evident greatness (and the millions of copies his novels have sold), it is perhaps little surprise that HarperCollins—the house now responsible for publishing his works—continually unearths obscure texts to bring out in new editions. Continue Reading...
June 03, 2026

Europe’s Bureaucratization of Parenting 

In 2021, Spain became the first country in the European Union to impose fully equal and mandatory parental leave: six compulsory weeks for each parent, nontransferable immediately after birth. The policy has since been held up as a model of equality and is now being studied as a template across Europe. Continue Reading...
June 02, 2026

Murder Most Profound

Anthony Malcolm Daniels, who writes under the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is the most irritating kind of cultural critic; he stubbornly refuses to accommodate himself to the ever-shifting categorical boundaries of the times. Continue Reading...