The War

The New Realism
We’ve removed Saddam Hussein, established a democratic government in Iraq, and transformed the dynamics of the Middle East. “Muscular idealism is the new American realism.” By Victor Davis Hanson.

Shareholders Don’t Shoot Each Other**
Iraq will not be peaceful, prosperous, and democratic until all Iraqis—including Sunnis—believe they have a stake in the new order. Let’s start by giving them ownership shares in Iraq’s oil reserves. By Charles Wolf Jr.

Divide et Impera
Divide et impera—divide and conquer—is an ancient strategy. Thomas H. Henriksen explains how to adapt it to the war on terror, exploiting the ideological and religious differences of our enemies.

Speaking Their Language
The U.S. government could go a long way toward building understanding in the Middle East by backing the study of Arabic. By Peter Berkowitz.

The Economy

Give Me Your Skilled and Capable**
Skilled workers from all over the world want to come to the United States. And when we allow them to become U.S. residents and citizens, they enrich our nation in many ways. So why are we so stingy with visas? By Gary S. Becker.

The High Price of Oil—and of Demagoguery
Big Oil may be an easy target for politicians, but every investigation into high gas prices turns up a single culprit—supply and demand. Go figure. By Thomas Sowell.

Income Mobility: Alive and Well
Has income mobility in America stalled? No way. It hasn’t even slowed. By David R. Henderson.

Education

Katrina and Vouchers**
The private market can provide schooling for the children now returning to post-Katrina schools n New Orleans faster—and better—than can the state. By Milton Friedman.

The Father of Modern School Reform
Fifty years after he first proposed school vouchers, Milton Friedman is still on the case. An extended interview with Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine.

No Child Left Behind: The Bad and the Good
The report card on the No Child Left Behind Act is in, and the grades are passing—barely. By Chester E. Finn Jr. and Michael J. Petrilli.

How Educators Hide the Sorry Truth
Minority dropout rates are scandalous—and a well-kept secret. Paul E. Peterson on the smoke and mirrors used by the public education cartel to conceal this sad fact.

Science

A Politically Incorrect Guide to Science
More taxpayer money will not give us better science. Why is this so hard for the federal government to understand? By Tom Bethell.

Taxes

That Rarest of Opportunities
Opportunities for true tax reform come along rarely, but the time is at hand. A report from two members of the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, Edward P. Lazear and James M. Poterba.

Politics

What Happened to Arnold?
Can Arnold Schwarzenegger recover from his special-election train wreck? What the Governator must do to get back on track. By Bill Whalen.

The Family

Revenge of the Rugrats
“Today’s kids and young adults are openly nostalgic for that mother of all scapegoats, the nuclear family itself.” Mary Eberstadt on the shortcomings of progressive happy-talk about the family.

Race

The Meaning of the French Riots
France suffers from a more advanced case of ethnic Balkanization than does the United States, but the disease is evident in this country as well. How to treat it? By returning to the “ideal of a multiracial society under the inclusive aegis of Western culture.” By Victor Davis Hanson.

Welfare

Food Stamps: The Never-Ending Story
Amid the poverty of the Great Depression, government programs such as food stamps may have made sense. But today this runaway entitlement is impossible to justify. By Jeffrey M. Jones.

Regulation

Making Sense of Drug Labeling
How the FDA makes medicine labels incomprehensible—and what’s good, and bad, about the newest proposals for reform. By Henry I. Miller.

China

A China Policy for This Century
Can the United States and China be partners, rather than antagonists, in the twenty-first century? The road ahead will be treacherous, but the rewards could be enormous. Scott Tait explains.

Too Busy to Worry about Democracy
The Chinese are too busy getting rich to worry about democracy. But when China suffers a recession, watch out. By Niall Ferguson.

Russia

Grim Relic
If Russians ever decide to hold Lenin accountable for his crimes, they could start by dismantling Lenin’s tomb and burying this monster in a lonely field far, far away from Red Square. By Arnold Beichman.

The Gas War
The dispute over gas prices between Russia and Ukraine lasted just long enough to offer a disquieting glimpse of the future—Russian extortion of the West. By Michael Mcfaul.

Israel

The Legacy of Ariel Sharon
From soldier to statesman, by way of most vilified leader in the world. By Peter Berkowitz.

Sudan

The Continuing Peril of Darfur
The government in Khartoum continues to get away with murder, literally. Will the international community ever act? By Tod Lindberg.

Latin America

Get Serious, Amigos
Do the nations of Latin America really want economic development? By William Ratliff.

History and Culture

On the Indispensability of Think Tanks
Gather intellectuals, add funding for research, and mix thoroughly—good ideas are bound to result. John Raisian on the vital role of the modern think tank.

Noam Chomsky, Closet Capitalist
Chomsky talks an anti-capitalist game, but what does he practice? Market economics at their most profitable. By Peter Schweizer.

Robert Conquest: An Enduring Testament
The president of the United States reflects on the historian who told the truth about the Soviet Union.

Hayek in War and Peace
Austria’s proud intellectual tradition suffered an enormous blow from Nazism and World War II. Kurt T. Leube on the postwar efforts of Friedrich von Hayek to revive that tradition, especially in economics.

In Memoriam

Keith Eiler, Officer and Gentleman
The virtues of a quiet hero. By Tom Bethell.

Hoover Archives

How World Communism Worked—and Failed**
Far from liberating the masses, communism introduced oppression on a scale that defies comprehension. The sorry tale of world communism, as seen in the documents of the Hoover Archives. By Robert Service.