On March 29, the Department of Education announced the first-round winners in its Race to the Top (RTTT) competition. The $4.35 billion grant program has been hailed by liberals and ...

With the exception of individual freedom, no public value is held in higher esteem by Americans than economic opportunity. A major theme of the American creed is that with discipline, ...

The first steps toward the repeal of Obamacare have already occurred. First, the legislation passed without leading to a lasting improvement in the president’s or the Democrats’ approval ratings. Second, ...

There are two schools of thought about the Reagan tax cuts. The conventional conservative view: They spurred investment, entrepreneurship, and real economic growth, helping to resuscitate the post-Carter economy, and, ...

This excellent study of one of America’s greatest media pioneers is entirely consistent with the rigor and elegance of the large body of Prof. Alan Brinkley’s previous work. The book ...

When I worked for Vice President Dick Cheney during the first Bush term, the ever-ebullient Arthur B. Laffer was a regular visitor to our office. He and Cheney had been ...

Maybe the oddest and most wonderful thing about this very odd and wonderful book is that its title is a literal description of its contents. It is a joke too, ...

Bad Hand or Bad Play? If Ramesh Ponnuru were a fan of Butler’s basketball team, which came within inches of knocking off mighty Duke for the national title, he would be ...

THE TRUTH OF MATERIALS “ . . . Brancusi taught me the truth of materials.” – Isamu Noguchi In my father’s house is a propeller, Not a work of art, or nature, not steel Or ...