During the 2004 presidential campaign, one principal plank of George W. Bush's domestic platform was reforming tort law, which includes class action lawsuits, asbestos liability, and medical malpractice liability. President Bush believes that tort law as it now stands permits trial lawyers to take advantage of good companies, driving up the costs of doing business for everyone. Others believe that existing tort law allows consumers to protect themselves against bad companies. Which is it? And should President Bush be given the tort reforms he wants? Peter Robinson speaks with David Davenport and Alan Morrison.

What did the midterm elections prove? That Americans yearn for enduring principles—and dislike being pushed around. By Peter Berkowitz.

In today's Wall Street Journal, Hoover's Peter Robinson reports on an interview with Gary Becker. . . .

“In the absence of a unifying conservative reform agenda,” says Mike Lee, junior senator from Utah, “there will be a lot of bickering. We need to fill the void.” An interview with Peter Robinson.

There they go again...

Discussing whether Ben Bernanke is good for the markets, with Donald Luskin, Trend Macro; Peter Navarro, University of California and John Taylor, Stanford University. . . .

Richard Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of its Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force, notes that the conscious decision to make Apple the focal point of a special investigation offers a bittersweet commentary on the fragile state of the US political economy.

The Nobel Prize winner says Americans don't want expansion of government. . . .

Thomas Sowell discusses the politics of the housing boom...