By Steve Conover
Here’s the best way to address the nation’s unfunded liabilities for Medicare and Social Security.
The Obama White House is both very aware and very thin-skinned about what reporters, and particularly TV reporters, say ...
President Obama’s recent announcement of his policy change on gay marriage made news, and not just because of the policy, but for the way in which he announced it: In an interview with ...
The electorate may well be evolving, but it’s at a far more glacial pace than is being widely credited.
The landslide passage of Amendment One in North Carolina, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman, should give some pause to those who believe that young voters will be enough to tilt ...
How a piece of journeyman work is turned into patently junk science.
One of the major reasons that science is held in low repute among portions of the citizenry is that it has too often allowed itself to become entangled with public relations. The PR connection has ...
Roger Scruton on the possibility of renewal in urban America and why China’s urbanization is one of the great ...
Editor’s note: Roger Scruton is one of the most influential philosophers alive today. The author of numerous books and articles, his most recent publication is “A Plea for Beauty: A ...
Liberals, economic illiteracy, and The Tyranny of Clichés.
While Jonah Goldberg’s fine new book, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, may not qualify as art, it was imitated by life just days after its release. ...
While you get more business formation if you reduce the barriers to starting companies, you don’t necessarily get more ...
During a speech to students at Otterbein University in Ohio last week, presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said, "We’ve always encouraged young people: Take a shot, ...
Population change is reversing secularism and shifting the center of gravity of entire societies in a conservative ...
As the 2012 presidential election grows closer, voter demographics will grab ever more airtime. In a finely balanced electorate, switching parties is less common, making internal growth of party bases ...
As Occupy protesters turn violent, it’s worth reflecting on why the movement failed in the first place.
When the Occupy Wall Street movement began in 2011, it took as its motto the bracing claim: “We are the 99 percent.” A year later, it is beginning to look more like the Occupy movement is ...
The idea of a smoking lounge immediately under 7 million cubic feet of flammable gas should seem ludicrous. But it ...
The historian of science Thomas Kuhn used to advise his students to read the books and papers of the past not for their insights into present-day science but, to the contrary, to notice what was ...
Natural gas will continue its conquest of global and national energy supplies.
Before the end of 2005, the U.S. price of natural gas rose above $15/1,000 cubic feet, nearly 12 times the all-time low reached in 1995. Production was down by about 8 percent compared to 2001, news ...
Americans think it unlikely Congress and the administration will agree on a jobs bill.