Public Square
What's happening in the "third places" beyond home and work.
- Morals, Markets, and the Pope Joseph Loconte 07/17/2009
- The desire for the worldwide redistribution of wealth in Pope Benedict’s encyclical is a stubborn temptation. It is the siren song of utopianism.
- Obama, Sotomayor, and the Political Limits of Personal Experience Andy Smarick 07/07/2009
- Will Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s life experience, including attending a private Catholic school, lead to an uncomfortable conclusion—that government-supported school choice is just?
- All Cost, No Gain Ted Gayer 07/06/2009
- By supplementing their cap-and-trade program with expensive mandates, Congress levies heavy costs with no environmental gain.
- As American as…Cricket Roger Bate 07/03/2009
- Cricket and baseball are twin brothers, separated at birth.
- The Court Kicks the Can—What’s Next? Edward Blum 06/25/2009
- Although the Supreme Court dodged the constitutionality question of Section 5, most Court observers believe that the opinion unambiguously foretells that this Court is prepared to declare the provision unconstitutional.
- Twitter Takes Tehran Michael M. Rosen 06/18/2009
- As the mullahs have increasingly restricted the freedom of Western and Iranian journalists—essentially forbidding them from covering the demonstrations—amateurs and professionals alike have turned to Web 2.0 tools to get their message out.
- The National Kidney Foundation’s Bizarre Logic Sally Satel 06/11/2009
- The public is receptive to the idea of rewarding organ donors. It’s time to leverage that receptivity.
- Baseless Bias and the New Second Sex Christina Hoff Sommers 06/10/2009
- Claims of bias against women in academic science have been greatly exaggerated. Meanwhile, men are becoming the second sex in American higher education.
- A Public Health Disaster in the Making John E. Calfee 06/03/2009
- Congress is poised to pass one of the worst public health laws ever conceived.
- What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You Thomas P. Miller 05/27/2009
- There is a strong association between educational attainment and health. That’s one more reason to empower Americans, not Washington, with greater ownership of their healthcare.