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American Individualism and Societal Values

February 12, 2013

The Boy Scouts Dilemma

Rather than be ripped apart over admitting gay people, the organization should split in two.
February 5, 2013

America’s Favorite Golfer Gets Fleeced

What Phil Mickelson’s tax saga teaches us about the uses and abuses of state fiscal policy.
January 25, 2013

Taught to Be Evil

Isaac L. Kandel (1881– 1965)
Image credit: Hoover Archives

What we teach children can be a matter of life and death. Two pioneers of education confronted the power of indoctrination. By Erwin H. Epstein.

January 25, 2013

What Did the Founders Think They Were Doing?

Obama vs Romney
Image credit: Taylor Jones

Why do we vote, and what do we get for our trouble? By Harvey C. Mansfield.

January 25, 2013

Food for Thought

The Chick-fil-A boycott and counterboycott showed why religious values should command our attention. By David Davenport.

January 25, 2013

Quiet Heroism down on the Farm

flood near Modesto in January 2012
Image credit: © ZUMA/Marty Bicek

Crop failures and drought ought to remind us that life—and the harvest—is uncertain. By Victor Davis Hanson.

January 25, 2013

Our Robot Children

mannequin dressed for battle
Image credit: © EPA/Tobias Kleinschmidt

At what point will we trust robots to kill? By Shane Harris.

January 25, 2013

Should Immigrants Pay at the Gate?

Countries have many arbitrary ways of deciding who gets in. Here’s one idea that actually makes sense. By Gary S. Becker.

January 16, 2013

Wards of the State

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With the rise of entitlements, we are not only experiencing a crisis of finances, but also a crisis of character.
January 15, 2013

The Age of Administrative Excess

Why is the federal government locking unwilling citizens into Medicare?