The “American Dream,” bred and refined in cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, is in widespread disorderly retreat, according to Joel Kotkin. But not everywhere. In Unherd, Kotkin notes that it is flowering in Texas, a state that still celebrates entrepreneurship and freedom and is reaping the rewards population growth, economic development and plentiful jobs.

When the Waves Turn the Minutes to Hours
John R. Grove commemorates the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald with a moving meditation on Gordon Lightfoot’s song memorializing the disaster and its 29 forever-lost victims. Lightfoot’s poetry and melody in The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald not only hauntingly convey the tragedy’s essential elements but, Grove writes in Law & Liberty, open a window to the sublime.


