The Year of the Islamists
Israel's deadly experience with Islamist terror may be a preview of what is in store for Western nations.
How the Wright Brothers Reinvented the American Dream
In The Wright Brothers, David McCullough’s latest book and perhaps his best, he tells the story of the two brothers who accomplished what scientists, inventors, and dreamers throughout the centuries ...
Why Won’t Liberals Talk about the Most Important Kind of ‘Privilege’ in America?
Much has been written about privilege in academic settings over the past few decades. There’s the privilege of wealth, and the advantages wealth confers if a baby is lucky enough ...
The War on Small Business
Few Americans know his name — not even most staffers or reporters on Capitol Hill. But hundreds of thousands of small-business owners are afraid the government agency he works at ...
Disenfranchising the American Dream
Dawn Lafreeda began working at Denny’s when she was 16, making her way up from hostess to waitress. In 1984, at the age of 23, she bought her first store. She ...
Radical Islam: The Monster in the Room
It’s not the elephant in the room — it’s the monster in the room. Radical Islam is the monster, and it is on the march in the Middle East. And ...
Hamas’s Co-Conspirators
It was a law designed to prosecute organized-crime outfits that were harming innocent civilians and businesses and in some cases strangling entire American cities. It was called the Racketeer Influenced ...
Where Have You Gone, George Bailey?
He is America’s most iconic banker. Okay. He isn’t a real banker, but we all know and love him; he’s George Bailey from the quintessential Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful ...
Immigration, America’s Advantage
It was the Inconvenient Truth of its day. The book was The Population Bomb, by Paul Ehrlich, published in 1968. Ehrlich made some apocalyptic predictions about resource depletion and mass ...
Why Small Is Better
In what may be the most important poll in recent memory, Gallup asked Americans in December what they considered “the biggest threat to the country in the future”: big government, ...