The Weekend Interview

The president is wrong to attribute industrial decline to foreign competition, and the rising dollar is likely to cause the trade deficit to rise.

James Davison Hunter coined the phrase in 1991, a year ahead of Pat Buchanan. Now he reflects on how the struggle has evolved over three decades.

The dean of Columbia Business School is a tax cutter and free trader, but he says economists must address ‘real economic concerns in the heartland.’

Anti-Putin crusader Bill Browder on his disillusionment with Moscow’s leader and his tangles with the man behind the Trump dossier.

Counterterrorism’s odd couple: An ex-cop teams up with a former extremist he helped send to prison.

Mike Hunkapiller helped invent the DNA-sequencing machines that read the human genome. Now his company’s tools are decoding everything from insects to cancer cells.

The widow of Robert Conquest talks about the life and work of the historian, including three books still forthcoming.

For your kids, yes—at least assuming they graduate. But the author of ‘The Case Against Education’ says the benefits to society are vastly overstated.

The author of ‘Manliness’ suggests the president’s vulgar appeal may be the beginning of the end of the push for gender-neutrality.

A Stalin biographer contemplates Russia’s weakness today, which makes its current ruler such a threat to the West.

The outsider governor recounts his battles with the political machine and explains why he thinks a second term would be ‘transformative.’

For $9.95 a month, you can see a film a day on the big screen. MoviePass’s CEO explains how he thinks he can make this business model profitable.

Steve Bannon is giving a talk at Chicago. Its president is confident he won’t be shouted down.

When Pax Britannica gave way to Pax Americana, the transition was peaceful. A repeat is unlikely, says the author of ‘Safe Passage.’

Gordon Wood, the noted historian of early America, says Adams’s Federalists and Jefferson’s Republicans were far more divided than today’s political parties.

The economist behind the ‘priority review voucher,’ which advances treatments for neglected diseases.

The author of ‘Unstable Majorities’ argues that if the electorate seems fickle, it’s because the politicians are too ideological.

Estonia’s former President Toomas Hendrik Ilves warns the West to harden defenses against cyberattack and makes the case for a universal electronic ID.

Pennsylvania’s Sen. Pat Toomey worked behind the scenes to persuade his colleagues on the budget math and unite the GOP’s factions.

The secret, says Bellevue Square’s owner, is to provide customers with ‘emotional fulfillment.’

Sen. Tom Cotton has a worldview—even a doctrine—that is hawkish and realistic, though tinged with idealism.

The author of the famed children’s series, begun by his father in 1931, explains Babar’s swan song and how childhood has changed.

Zubin Mehta discusses Wagner, Mahler and the evolution of the Jewish state in the half-century since he adopted it.

Only 35% of students earn bachelor’s degrees in six years. Why? Because traditional public schools failed to prepare them.

Conservatives cheer and liberals jeer New York psychoanalyst Erica Komisar’s book on the science of early childhood development.