Qadaffi is an experienced despot; otherwise he would not have held office for forty years. He knows how to calculate the best ways to stay in power. By my count, Qadaffi can be defeated in four ways...
In this kingdom of lies, this Oceania of the mind, I, a subject of the monarchy of untruth, navigate carefully, assuming what I read and see is simply not true — and cannot be said to be untrue...
In tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal, Gary Becker, George Shultz and I present the economic case for a credible strategy to reduce the growth of federal government spending, bring the deficit down, and increase economic growth...
...[A] highly visible and critically praised Broadway play that will be seen by thousands is met by the insulted church with a shrug, while a solitary act by the leader of an obscure, 50-member, non-denominational congregation triggers lethal violence...
In revising my Comparing Economic Systems in the 21st Century, I was struck by the relevance of the writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Adam Smith to our current political-economic debates...
If the courts want to help out, they should not focus on the budgetary changes. They should focus on the laws and contract provisions that inhibit the provision of high-quality education to the students of New Jersey and New York and the rest of the country...
Yesterday’s meeting of the G20 finance ministers in China broadened the ongoing “rebalancing current accounts” agenda to consider international monetary policy reform...
...[R]ather than waste your time speculating on the circumstances involved in unseating an incumbent president, I’d like you to engage in something far more empirical: presidential mathematics...
GUESTS: Joseph Sternberg, WSJ Asia, and Gordon Chang, The Daily and Forbes.com, in re: Last year, 140% of China's sales figures were sales to the US, Kori Schake, Hoover, in re: Mission creep in Libya...
Peter Berkowitz on The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict edited by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, and Philip Weiss...
Liam Julian on Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer and The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive by Brian Christian...
[Facts and theories] argue against the recent reversion to Keynesian discretionary interventionism, and for a revival of the kinds of rules-based fiscal and monetary policies that have yielded unmatched stability and economic growth...
