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Bruce Bartlett, who served in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, explains how the shift to an anti-tax philosophy caused the Republican Party to become the party of big government : The supply-siders are to a large extent responsible for this mess, myself included. We opened . . . . Continue Reading »

Last month in the Wall Street Journal , Thomas Frank proffered an interesting claim —he doesn’t flesh it out enough to be an argument—that the left needs to reclaim the concept of freedom from the grasp of the right: People working the freedom vein were numerous at the large protest . . . . Continue Reading »

Last August the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator in Europe, was set to begin smashing protons together in the hope of producing the long-sought Higgs boson. The Higgs particle is considered the missing link in the commonly accepted model of physics, so physicists were quite . . . . Continue Reading »

Jagdish Bhagwati defends free markets against ” capitalism’s petty detractors “: Inevitably, the crisis on Wall Street has revived the never-ending notion that markets undermine morality. Oliver Stone, ever restless to recapture the days of former glory, has begun production on a . . . . Continue Reading »

So you thought Genesis 1:1 claims that God created the universe? That’s because you don’t understand Hebrew : Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis “in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth” . . . . Continue Reading »

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to President Barack Obama today for ending the tensions between Professor Henry Louis Gates and Office James Crowley during his Beer Summit. Only kidding, of course. That was an actual accomplishment and according to the Nobel citation, he won because of efforts . . . . . Continue Reading »

Anthony Bradley argues that the decline of religion in America will lead to an expanded role of government into our lives : The American Religious Identification Survey, published by Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., reports that we should expect one in five Americans to identify themselves as . . . . Continue Reading »

A team of family scholars recently launched a U.S. Marriage Index , the first attempt to track the health of marriage in America. The report begins by asking: “What helps us the most to thrive, as individuals and as a society? Money or marriage? Assets or relationships? Here’s what we . . . . Continue Reading »

Hunter’s excellent post on social conservatives, libertarians, and Aristotle gives me an excuse to link to an essay by a more recent thinker—the late, great Russell Kirk. In the fall of 1981, during the earliest days of the Reagan years, Kirk published the greatest political essay on . . . . Continue Reading »

D. Michael Lindsay, a sociologist at Rice University and the author of  Surveying America’s Leadership: A Study of the White House Fellows , on the effect of civilian and military leaders meeting as White House Fellows : Because the White House Fellowship draws younger leaders from many . . . . Continue Reading »