Public Square
What's happening in the "third places" beyond home and work.
- Obama and TV News Tevi Troy 05/15/2012
- The Obama White House is both very aware and very thin-skinned about what reporters, and particularly TV reporters, say about it.
- The Life and Death of Great American Cities Nick Schulz 05/11/2012
- Roger Scruton on the possibility of renewal in urban America and why China’s urbanization is one of the great ecological disasters of our time.
- The Occupy Movement and the Communism of Everyday Life Lee Harris 05/07/2012
- As Occupy protesters turn violent, it’s worth reflecting on why the movement failed in the first place.
- Markets, Risk, and Fashion: The Hindenburg’s Smoking Lounge Edward Tenner 05/04/2012
- The idea of a smoking lounge immediately under 7 million cubic feet of flammable gas should seem ludicrous. But it wasn’t.
- More Than Good Enough for Government Work Ivan Osorio 04/25/2012
- To reform public pensions, policymakers must tackle their structural problems.
- Why ObamaCare Has Proved a Hard Sell Lee Harris 04/09/2012
- It may be that ObamaCare isn’t ‘suitable for framing’ and that there is no way to make the individual mandate intuitively convincing to ordinary Americans.
- Obama Flunks Con Law Howard Slugh 04/09/2012
- Here’s how to understand the distinction between judicial activism and ordinary judicial review.
- Titanic and the 1% Edward Tenner 04/06/2012
- What’s striking in thinking about class differences in the age of Titanic is not the similarities to inequality in our own time, but the chasm.
- What Does ‘Fiscal Responsibility’ Mean? Steve Conover 03/29/2012
- Everybody is for ‘fiscal responsibility’; nobody is against it. Shouldn’t that be a red flag? Isn’t that a hint that something might be amiss in this so-called debate?
- What’s in a Name? John Steele Gordon 03/22/2012
- Our naval ships should recall two centuries of American sea power and naval heroism, not battles on Capitol Hill.