Ideological clashes over particular laws, policies and programs often go far deeper. Those with opposing views of what is desirable for the future also tend to differ equally sharply as to what the reality of the present is. In other words, they envision two very different worlds...
Strange indeed is the sudden Democratic furor at Barack Obama. In fairness to the president, though, much of it seems to be a matter of scapegoating...
The United States postal system has a distinguished history since mail delivery is part of the Constitution, and Benjamin Franklin was the first Postmaster General. But during the past half century it has faced one financial crisis after another...
The idea that conflicts between peoples can be resolved by diplomatic negotiation has frequently been a dangerous delusion...It’s long past time that we made policy based on reality instead of on our own delusions...
With the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 approaching people have been asking me to write about the impact of 9/11 on economic policy making in Washington...and to reflect on how the world has changed since then...
There is of course no doubt that Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia take different views on the role of stare decisis in Supreme Court decisions. What is a hard question to figure out is which of these views is correct, and why...
by Daniel Pipesvia Corner (National Review Online)
Friday, September 2, 2011
Ankara’s decision today to throw out the Israeli ambassador (who was anyway leaving in a matter of days) probably signals more than a fleeting estrangement...
I surveyed a large number of Tea Party sites to distill what I consider to be its “core” platform. I then studied public opinion polls to determine whether the American people agree with the Tea Party’s core principles. Here is what I found...
NPR foreign correspondent Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid and Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, discuss the rapidly evolving situation in Libya and the country's next steps...
GUESTS: Clark Taylor, author of "Nerve: Poise Under Pressure, Serenity Under Stress, and the Brave New Science of Fear and Cool I"; Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution, regarding Obamacare...
