I believe the main issues related to judging inequality and its changes over time come down to deciding whether the inequality is of the good or bad kind...
The same thing that is the matter with most of the modern Middle East: in the post-industrial world, its hundreds of millions now are vicariously exposed to the affluence and freedom of the West via satellite television, cell phones, the Internet, DVDs, and social networks...
No one quite knows all the causes of the unrest in Tunisia, now spreading to Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East, or how this will all end,...[but there] will probably be no such popular violent unrest in Iraq where an elected and popular government is legitimate...
Any claim we make based on aggregate data is only as good as those data. Brink Lindsey has pointed out that, contrary to Tyler Cowen, the so-called Great Stagnation that Tyler writes about is not so much a stagnation as a reversion to a lower long-term growth trend...
This week has witnessed the emergence of a new Washington Consensus, apparent in President Obama’s education-obsessed State of the Union address, a bipartisan conference call with key Senate leaders, and a supportive column by the country’s most widely read conservative...
U pluribus unum. Out of many, one...Lately that motto has given way to “diversity” on college campuses, the media, entertainment, government, and business. China is different...
Intellectual debate is well and good, but if you’re going to condescend, you better have something to condescend about. In this case Steve Stromberg of the Washington Post just got schooled by Sarah Palin...
The Obama administration's new online education dashboard highlights the wrong data, and too much of it—giving the public a less than-succinct summary of school and student performance..
In his Jan. 23 op-ed, "Ike was right: Cut defense,"...Mr. Ignatius failed to note that while Eisenhower did hold down military spending, his administration relied on "massive retaliation" by nuclear arms to offset reductions in conventional forces...
GUEST HOSTS: Simon Constable and Amity Shlaes. GUESTS: John Bussey, WSJ, Paul Rivoche, rocketfiction.com, Gordon Chang, Forbes.com, John Taylor, Hoover...
