Matt Johnson: “How Hitchens Can Save the Left”
The Left - “There really hasn’t been anybody like him since he passed…This is why there are these long compilations of ‘Hitchslaps’ on YouTube. It’s why most of the tributes to him focus on his rhetorical prowess—and just his brilliance on the debate stage.” (9/14/2023)

Paul Gottfried: Understanding the Rich History of Paleoconservatism
The Right - “Why is it more important to believe in my right to own a gun if I say it is a ‘human right’ or something like that then if I say it is a right which was given to free Englishmen in the Middle Ages and which is valued as a legacy of freedom for the […] (8/31/2023)

Clay Routledge: Breaking Ground in Psychology, Outside of the Academy
The Center - “Regulating your own emotions is something most people are capable of doing…It doesn’t require you constantly expressing [a problem], thinking about it, [and] sharing it with everyone…There’s something about not fixating too much on your own problems and really dwelling on them but, instead, doing something.” (7/7/2023)

Shawne Merriman: From the NFL to “Xtreme Fighting”
The Center - “One thing I’ve learned [from] being in combat sports is that it’s internationally watched everywhere, in every country.” (6/17/2023)

Lawrence M. Krauss: The Fundamental Questions of Science
The Center - “The great thing is the universe is as amazing as it is without all of the fairytales. The universe is far more amazing than anything that has come up in any scriptural book because the imagination of nature is much greater than the imagination of human beings.” (6/7/2023)

Waller Newell: The Characteristics of Tyranny
The Center - “We will be nothing like the way we are now. It will be like a night and day transformation. And it always does require violence because, as you said, that class or race enemy that stands in the way of future bliss simply has to be gotten rid of.” (5/31/2023)

Faisal Saeed Al Mutar: Iraq, 20 Years After the Fall of Baghdad
The Center - “There is a lot of hope. Every time I go there and meet with the new generation, I think that they definitely want for their country to be a successful one. And that’s the conversation in Iraq. Most people have now forgotten about the war.” (5/12/2023)

Death Is Not Inevitable: Sitting Down with Zoltan Istvan
The Center - “I’d be very surprised if a super intelligent AI a thousand years from now cannot recreate everything. Also, like so many other people, including Elon, I believe there’s probably a 50% chance we’re in a simulation. So, that would defeat the idea of death as well.” (4/28/2023)

Tabia Lee: What Happened at De Anza College
The Center - “There [are] ways to teach about the past that are humanistic; that are agency-focused; and that are focused on generative things rather than destructive things—rather than dismantling things and tearing things down with no plan forward of what happens after the destruction.” (4/18/2023)

John Cribb: What We Can Learn from Abraham Lincoln
The Center - “All of the sudden, I was on the phone with Mike Pence… ‘I just finished Old Abe last night, and I had to track you down and tell you how much I loved it, and it’s the best book about Lincoln I’ve ever read.’ And, for ten minutes, he just wanted to talk about Lincoln.” (3/18/2023)

Lance Morrow: “The Noise of Typewriters”
The Center - “You could read my book…as a kind of homage to the magazine.” (2/12/2023)

Mary Harrington: On a Philosophy of Limits
The Right - “And my argument is that freedom and progress in the context of the cyborg era are actually inimical to women’s interests. They don’t make things better for any women, except [for] a very small, elite subset.” (12/7/2022)

William Jacobson: What Happened to Campus?
The Right - “I’m not optimistic at all that campuses can be reformed. They certainly cannot be reformed from within…Academia is gone. It is a monoculture. It is a hermetically sealed bubble.” (11/14/2022)

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb: The Activist Class Takes Aim at Medicine
The Center - “It’s career ending, really…Anybody who tries to [speak out] will be shunned.” (10/5/2022)

Heather Mac Donald: Medicine Under Fire
The Right - “Scientific conferences are being determined based on sex and race. It’s going to slow down medical progress, and it is also going to put physicians in the ER and the operating room who are not the top qualified.” (9/27/2022)

No Longer Running: An Interview with Felicia Heath
The Center - “And, later in life, when I was dealing with my father coming out of prison and perhaps rekindling that relationship, I started to look at my experience slightly differently. I started sharing bits and pieces of my story with people and, to my surprise, found that some of the reactions were positive and even inspiring.” (9/13/2022)

Interview: Brad Lips, CEO of Atlas Network
The Right - “Any coherent system of morality begins with an appreciation of human dignity and wanting people to have as many choices to take control of their lives as possible.” (8/11/2022)

Holmesburg: Calling for an Apology from the City of Philadelphia
The Left - “My father’s skin is in those pharmaceutical companies.” (8/3/2022)

Yoram Hazony: National Conservatism in a Midterm Year
The Right - “Conservatives are certainly not socialists. Conservatives do not believe, as the Marxists do, that you can open up some central office with really bright people and dictate the course of the entire economy of the nation. We don’t believe anything like that. On the other hand…” (7/29/2022)

NBC New York’s Jen Maxfield: Telling the Rest of the Story
The Center - “Sometimes, I would even dream about some of the people I had interviewed on the stories. And, so through the years, I had the idea to write a book and put it all together and try to return to some of the stories.” (7/22/2022)

Stephen Hicks: Challenges in Contemporary Education
The Center - “The ten out of a thousand entrepreneurial ideas that are amazing—we’ll find out what those are. And they will be the ones that dominate [in] the next generation.” (7/19/2022)

Will Marshall: Where Are the Moderates?
The Center - “I don’t see a full, vigorous pivot by this President (and this White House) back toward the themes and approaches that Joe Biden articulated in his 2020 presidential race.” (7/6/2022)

Young Americans for Liberty: An Interview with CEO Lauren Daugherty
The Right - “Ron Paul is so beloved because he is so principled. That is what we are focused on here. We will work with other people who share our interests, but we’re not going to sacrifice our principles to do it.” (6/24/2022)

Harris Poll’s Will Johnson: Why Polling Still Matters
The Center - “At the end of the day, it’s a pretty simple business that we’re in: We want to understand culture, we want to understand consumers’ thinking, and we’re just trying to answer why’s.” (5/3/2022)

Stephen Hicks: Lessons from the Canadian Trucker Protest
The Center - “Every generation, we need to learn and relearn how thin the line can be between having a basically liberal society and a basically authoritarian society.” (2/28/2022)

Dwight Evans: The VICTIM Act and Combating Crime
The Left - “No one is exempt from being a victim of some sort of crime. And it’s very appropriate that I use that title [of victim] in terms of the VICTIM Act.” (2/23/2022)

Pat McCrory: How to Get a Handle on the Crime Surge
The Right - “My wife and I used to go vacation in San Francisco. We don’t anymore…This is what’s headed toward the rest of the nation.” (1/24/2022)

James Lindsay: “Counter Wokecraft” and Responses to Institutional Takeover
The Center - “You have to have a steel spine in your liberalism. ‘What kind of government did you create, sir?’ ‘We created a republic, if [you] can keep it.’ The ‘if you can keep it’ part requires a steel spine.” (1/19/2022)

Finland, Russia, and the NATO Question: An Interview with Risto Penttilä
The Center - ” I think that we are, as always, pragmatic idealists.” (1/16/2022)

Peter Boghossian: On the Purpose of Education
The Center - “It’s not that there’s anything wrong with debate. In fact, debate, in certain circumstances, can be good, but we can often solve the problems…through conversation.” (1/13/2022)

Magatte Wade: The Power of Free Markets for Africa
The Center - “Eventually, I had an emotional crisis because I could no longer reconcile the life of abundance that the U.S. afforded me. I made a pact with myself that from here on, I’m really going to try to see what needs to happen for [Africa] to thrive.” (1/9/2022)

Frank Vogl: Understanding the Kleptocrats and Their Enablers
The Center - “Too often, people think of corruption as something that happens somewhere else: in Russia, in authoritarian regimes.” (12/29/2021)

Video: Merion West Co-Founders Speak at Alma Mater
The Center - Henri Mattila and Erich Prince tell the story of Merion West. (12/13/2021)

Sean Spicer: The Steele Dossier and “Radical Nation”
The Right - “I got the call on January 10th [2017] from CNN and then BuzzFeed about them running with this hoax. I pointed out at the time that it was wrong. I could demonstrably prove it was wrong. And yet, they stuck by it…” (11/26/2021)

Anne Kim: The AP Exam and the Standardized Testing Debate
The Left - “I think the downside of going test-optional, the downside of ignoring what assessments tell you, means that you might end up ignoring the underlying structural problems and never fixing the inequities.” (11/5/2021)
