"Campuses have become places where speech and thought are restricted," argues Frederick M. Hess, and "new policies and norms will leave lasting damage unless countered, rolled back, or defanged." To address this urgent problem, Hess outlines an eight-point agenda that he says can drive illiberalism and identity politics out of colleges and universities.

Charles Murray reviews The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk (Penguin, 2022) and criticizes Mounk's comparisons between American and European struggles. "America's diversity problems are incomparable to those facing west European countries," opines Murray, "where many of Mounk's insights about how to help diverse democracies survive can be applied."

As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) petitions the Supreme Court to appeal an unfavorable ruling, Adam J. White challenges the CFPB's and Justice Department's argument that the CFPB's unprecedented ability to fund itself was "appropriated" by Congress and, therefore, constitutional. "Throughout its entire history," White observes, "the CFPB itself has consistently declared that its funding doesn't come from 'appropriations.'"

On Monday, December 5, the Hudson Institute's Walter Russell Mead joined AEI's Robert Doar for an Edward and Helen Hintz Book Forum on Mead's new book, The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People (Knopf, 2022). Doar and Mead discussed long-standing questions in the US-Israeli relationship, such as diplomacy and conflict with Arab powers, and more recent issues, such as Israel's stance on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

From World War II–era aircraft hangars to centuries-old shipyards, aged US military facilities in disrepair are weakening defense and undercutting technological gains, according to Mackenzie Eaglen. "America's military," writes Eaglen, "cannot have the high-tech weapons without taking care of the facilities that maintain and house them."