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Individual Freedom and the Rule of Law

August 14, 2012

The Obamacare Quagmire

The law will hurt the very people it's supposed to help.
August 13, 2012

A Ballot-Box Prescription

The superlative American health care system can still be saved. By Scott W. Atlas.

August 13, 2012

The Syrian Rebellion

Content to watch from afar, President Obama once again demonstrates the tenuousness of his commitment to democracy. By Fouad Ajami.

August 13, 2012

The Court that Couldn't Say "Stop!"

At a crucial moment, the Roberts court blinked, setting back both the Constitution and any dreams of limited federal power. By John Yoo.

August 13, 2012

Tales of Overreach

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August 13, 2012

A Golden Opportunity

man sitting on California
Image credit: Taylor Jones

Can’t anyone free California from deficits and dysfunction? By Michael J. Boskin and John F. Cogan.

August 13, 2012

The Fed Needs a Spine

Clearer signals about interest rates are well and good, but what the Fed really needs to demonstrate is strength to reject political pressure. By Thomas J. Sargent and William Silber.

August 13, 2012

Curse of the Goebbels Diaries

Joseph Goebbels “the first ‘spin doctor’
Image credit: Hoover Archives

The war was over, but the battle to publish the papers of the Nazis’ master propagandist was just beginning. By Bertrand M. Patenaude.

August 13, 2012

Crime Fighter without a Cape

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August 13, 2012

A Teacher of Character

James Q. Wilson accepting the Bradley Prize in 2007
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James Q. Wilson was a modest man of outsize achievements—a professor and a lifelong student of human nature. By Harvey C. Mansfield.