Public Square
What's happening in the "third places" beyond home and work.
- 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.
- Rule Britannica Robert McHenry 03/16/2012
- Encyclopædia Britannica has decided to stop printing the paper version—a move that's been in the works for over two decades.
- Who Should Know about Your Political Contributions? Howard Darmstadter 03/16/2012
- We view the secret ballot as a fundamental democratic principle. Without it, citizens could be subject to intimidation or reprisal. Why should we feel differently about political contributions?
- Double Talk about Double Standards Lee Harris 03/15/2012
- Writing in the New York Times, Stanley Fish reveals he is happy to live with an immoral double standard; but no decent society can.
- How to Beat ObamaCare in Court John F. Gaski 03/09/2012
- Somehow, the leading litigators contesting the Obama healthcare law have missed the elephant in the room.