New Guard Press

WILMINGTON, Del. – New Guard Press is proud to announce that it is the recipient of the 2026 Student Journalism Award for Best Editorial & Opinion bestowed by ISI’s Collegiate Network. New Guard Press is an online magazine founded in 2023 that publishes commentary from young conservatives. “I am very grateful to ISI and the Collegiate Network for this award,” New Guard Press founder Bradley Haley said.

A 2024 graduate of Hartford Public High School is suing her alma mater for allowing her to graduate … illiterate and with honors. Now, as a part-time freshman at the University of Connecticut, Aleysha Ortiz relies on speech-to-text to get through college essays. Ortiz was not a degenerate truant. On the contrary, she was quick to ask for help and take advantage of the resources available to her.

It is no secret that in recent years men and women have become increasingly politically divided, with more of America’s sons voting for Republicans while her daughters support Democrats. For this reason, one of the greatest challenges — and opportunities — facing the Right today is to put forward an attractive vision of womanhood without attacking men.

I opened Instagram a few weeks ago to a barrage of reels showing clips of female athletes training and competing in their various sports.

The University of Michigan recently announced a significant change to the way thousands of its freshmen will experience college. Beginning in fall 2027, students in the university’s largest college will not receive traditional letter grades during their first semester. Instead, their transcripts will record either “Pass” or “No Credit.” Understandably, the transition from high school to college can be brutal.

Wendell Berry passed away this past weekend at the age of 92. He died at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky — a fitting end for a man who spent his life asking what it means to belong to a place, a community, one’s work, and to the created world. Berry’s subject was ostensibly agriculture, but his questions were much larger: What do we owe the places we inhabit? What makes for work good? What happens when we forget that we are creatures?

Vice President J.D. Vance has generated a wave of noise around economics in recent weeks. He advocates for Hamilton’s nationalist economics over libertarian champion Milton Friedman’s, and raises economic policies that were unthinkable on the right a decade or two ago. The rise of an alternative or “New Right” economic philosophy still confounds many DC elites, let alone those who can’t lounge around perusing the latest X thread or pontificating about the dismal science.

Politics makes for strange bedfellows. This primary season, I found myself voting with the ACLU of Kansas to oppose a constitutional amendment allowing for popular election of Supreme Court justices in my home state. In pushing this bill, Kansas Republicans seem to have forgotten a judge’s proper role: to say what the law is, free from popular pressure. It’s true that Kansas’s method of selecting justices is unique among the states.

This month marked a rare moment of self-restraint in Silicon Valley. After months of escalating warnings, the four largest AI labs publicly endorsed slowing their model development. It began Saturday, September 12, when Anthropic’s Dairo Amodei urged a more deliberate pace; Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed within hours, and the four largest labs found themselves briefly united in admitting that their own products may be moving faster than anyone’s ability to govern them.

It’s been an incredible year for movies. The 2026 summer movie season kicked off with Blumhouse’s Obsession, which had unusual staying power for a horror film, followed closely by Backrooms, an indie horror film that gave A24 its best opening weekend ever. These early releases were, however, mere harbingers for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which rapidly surpassed $1 billion in gross revenue and will likely become the acclaimed director’s crowning achievement thus far.