Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac Donald with the twelfth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

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On leaving Cambridge for Ralston College.

On The Technological Republic, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska.

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