Divide et impera—divide and conquer—is an ancient strategy. Thomas H. Henriksen explains how to adapt it to the war on terror, exploiting the ideological and religious differences of our enemies.
Iraq will not be peaceful, prosperous, and democratic until all Iraqis—including Sunnis—believe they have a stake in the new order. Let’s start by giving them ownership shares in Iraq’s oil reserves. By Charles Wolf Jr.
We’ve removed Saddam Hussein, established a democratic government in Iraq, and transformed the dynamics of the Middle East. “Muscular idealism is the new American realism.” By Victor Davis Hanson.
Big Oil may be an easy target for politicians, but every investigation into high gas prices turns up a single culprit—supply and demand. Go figure. By Thomas Sowell.
Skilled workers from all over the world want to come to the United States. And when we allow them to become U.S. residents and citizens, they enrich our nation in many ways. So why are we so stingy with visas? By Gary S. Becker.
The private market can provide schooling for the children now returning to post-Katrina schools n New Orleans faster—and better—than can the state. By Milton Friedman.
Minority dropout rates are scandalous—and a well-kept secret. Paul E. Peterson on the smoke and mirrors used by the public education cartel to conceal this sad fact.
Fifty years after he first proposed school vouchers, Milton Friedman is still on the case. An extended interview with Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine.
Opportunities for true tax reform come along rarely, but the time is at hand. A report from two members of the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, Edward P. Lazear and James M. Poterba.
“Today’s kids and young adults are openly nostalgic for that mother of all scapegoats, the nuclear family itself.” Mary Eberstadt on the shortcomings of progressive happy-talk about the family.
France suffers from a more advanced case of ethnic Balkanization than does the United States, but the disease is evident in this country as well. How to treat it? By returning to the “ideal of a multiracial society under the inclusive aegis of Western culture.” By Victor Davis Hanson.
Amid the poverty of the Great Depression, government programs such as food stamps may have made sense. But today this runaway entitlement is impossible to justify. By Jeffrey M. Jones.
Can the United States and China be partners, rather than antagonists, in the twenty-first century? The road ahead will be treacherous, but the rewards could be enormous. Scott Tait explains.
If Russians ever decide to hold Lenin accountable for his crimes, they could start by dismantling Lenin’s tomb and burying this monster in a lonely field far, far away from Red Square. By Arnold Beichman.
The dispute over gas prices between Russia and Ukraine lasted just long enough to offer a disquieting glimpse of the future—Russian extortion of the West. By Michael Mcfaul.
Gather intellectuals, add funding for research, and mix thoroughly—good ideas are bound to result. John Raisian on the vital role of the modern think tank.
Austria’s proud intellectual tradition suffered an enormous blow from Nazism and World War II. Kurt T. Leube on the postwar efforts of Friedrich von Hayek to revive that tradition, especially in economics.
Far from liberating the masses, communism introduced oppression on a scale that defies comprehension. The sorry tale of world communism, as seen in the documents of the Hoover Archives. By Robert Service.
